Labor Studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

* The NBER's Program on Labor Studies met in Cambridge on October 23, 2009. Program Director David Card, University of California, Berkeley, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Jennifer Hunt, McGill University and NBER, "Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?"

* Cecilia Machado, Columbia University, "Selection, Heterogeneity, and the Gender Wage Gap"

* Laura Giuliano, University of Miami, "Effects of the 1996 Federal Minimum Wage Law on Employment, Substitution, and the Quality of Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data"

* Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky, and Barry...