"Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: A Conference in Honor of Kenneth I. Wolpin"

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 10:30am - Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 4:30pm

PIER Conference

University of Pennsylvania

Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, Wharton Complex, 3620 Locust Walk SHDH 215

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

Organizers: Petra Todd and Christopher Ferrall

Sponsors:

Penn Institute for Economic Research

James L. McCabe Empirical Micro Workshop

The John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy

Program:

Structural Estimate of Behavioral Models: A Conference in Honor of Kenneth I. Wolpin University of Pennsylvania September 21-22, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Session I Chair	Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania)
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.	Steven Stern (University of Virginia), “Will You Still Want Me Tomorrow? The Dynamics of Families and LongTerm Care Arrangements”
11:15 - 12:00 p.m.	Robert Sauer (University of Bristol) "Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?"
12 to 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Buffet
Session II Chair	Donna Gileskie (University of North Carolina)
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.	Nirav Mehta (University of Western Ontario), "Competition in Public School Districts: Charter School Entry, Student Sorting, and School Input Determination"
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.	Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “College-Major Choice to College-Then- Major Choice”
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
Session III Chair	Zvi Eckstein (Tel Aviv University)
2:45 – 3:30 p.m.	Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), “Life Cycle Fertility and Human Capital Accumulation”
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.	Clement Joubert (University of North Carolina), “The Value of Remarriage”
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:15 p.m.	James Heckman (University of Chicago), “Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes”

Saturday, September 22, 2012
8:00 – 9 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
Session IV Chair	Hailey Hayeon Joo (Sogang University)
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.	Pedro Mira (CEMFI), “Structural Estimation and Counterfactual Experiments in Games when the Data Come from Multiple Equilibria”
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.	Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University), “The Empirical Content of Multiple Equilibria in Models of Social Interaction”
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
Session V Chair	Füsun Gönül (Slippery Rock University)
10:45 – 11:30 a.m.	Elena Pastorino (Minneapolis Federal Reserve), “Nonlinear Pricing of Food in Village Economies”
11:30 – 12:15	John Rust (Georgetown University), “How to Sell Your House: Theory and Evidence”
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch Buffet
Session VI Chair	Michael P. Keane (University of New South Wales)
1:15 – 2:00 p.m.	Silvio Rendon (SUNY Stony Brook), “Family Job Search and Consumption”
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.	Charles Manksi (Northwestern University), “Identification of Income-Leisure Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy”
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
Session VII Chair	Christopher Flinn (New York University)
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.	Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania), “Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform”
3:45 – 4:30 p.m.	Marco Cosconati (Bank of Italy), “Skill Formation and Parenting Styles: Evidence from a Dynamic Supermodular Game with Multiple Equilbria"

List of Participants

Hotels:

Holiday Inn Philadelphia-Historic District hotel

400 Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Phone: 267-765-3384

Inn at Penn, A Hilton Hotel

3600 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: 215-823-6237