Labor Studies.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Labor Studies, directed by David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, met in San Francisco on February 20. These papers were discussed:

* Hamish Low, University of Cambridge; Costa Meghir, Yale University and NBER; Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER; and Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago and NBER, "Marriage, Social Insurance, and Labor Supply"

* Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, "Revisiting the Impacts of Teachers"

* Ioana Marinescu, University of Chicago, and Roland Rathelot, University of Warwick, "Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search"

* Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario and NBER, and Youngki Shin, University of Western Ontario, "Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent, and Transitory Shocks" (NBER Working Paper No. 20068)

* Will Dobbie, Princeton...

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