Labor studies program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Labor Studies, directed by David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, met in San Francisco on March 4, 2011. These papers were discussed:

* Douglas Miller, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens, University of California, Davis and NBER, and Mateusz Filipski, University of California, Davis, "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality"

* Philippe Belley, Kansas State University; Marc Frenette, Social Research & Demonstration Corporation; and Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario and NBER, "Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?"

* Nicholas J. Sanders, Stanford University, "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker: Prenatal Pollution Exposure and Educational Outcomes"

* Florian Hoffman, University of British Columbia, "An Empirical Model...