Labor Studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Labor Studies Program met in Cambridge on December 1. Program Co-Directors David Autor of MIT and Alexandre Mas of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Peter Q. Blair and Bobby Chung, Clemson University, "Occupational Licensing Reduces Racial and Gender Wage Gaps"

* Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University and NBER; Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Jonathan T. Schellenberg, University of California, Berkeley; and Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?" (NBER Working Paper No. 23912)

* Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER, and Timothy McQuade and Franklin Qian, Stanford University, "The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from...