Labor Studies Program Meeting.

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The NBER's Program on Labor Studies, directed by David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, met in Cambridge on October 26, 2012. These papers were discussed:

* Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER, "External Validity and Partner Selection Bias" (NBER Working Paper No. 18373)

* Stefan Bender, Institute for Employment Research; Johannes Schmieder, Boston University and NBER; Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER, "The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Reemployment Wages"

* Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam, and Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and NBER, "Gender, Competitiveness, and Career Choices"

* Andrew Shephard, Princeton...