AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Joseph Altonji (Yale University and NBER)

Saturday, January 5, 10:15 AM

Saturday, January 5, 10:15 AM

Session: Innovations and Insights from the New Immigrant Survey (AEA)

Presiding: Randall Akee (IZA)

How Much Do Immigrants Gain in the Labor Market from Immigrating?
Richard Freeman (Harvard University and NBER)

Higher Education and International Migration: Brain Circulation
Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University)

The Determinants of the Wages and Occupations of Immigrants in the Home Country and the US
Joseph Altonji (Yale University and NBER)
Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University)

The Persistence of Self-Employment across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Randall Kekoa Quinones Akee (IZA)
David Jaeger (College of William and Mary, University of Bonn, and IZA)
Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
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Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Session: Applications of Recent Methodology in Project Evaluation (AEA)

Presiding: Christopher Taber (Northwestern University)

Using Selection of Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables when Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization
Joseph Altonji (Yale University and NBER)
Todd Elder (Michigan State University)
Christopher Taber (Northwestern University)

Exploiting Instrumental Variables to Bound the Effect of Swan-Ganz Catheterization
Jay Battacharya (Stanford University)
Azeem Shaikh (Yale University)
Edward Vytlacil (Columbia University)

Estimating Average Treatment Effects with Continuous and Discrete Covariates
Qi Li (Texas A&M University)
Jeff Racine (McMaster University)
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (Michigan State University)

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