These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
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Thomas Hubbard (Northwestern University)

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM
Session: Assignment, Uncertainty and Wage Inequality (AEA)
Presiding: Luis Garicano (University of Chicago)

Stochastic Volatity in Labor Income Across Schooling Groups
Flavio Cunha (University of Chicago)

Educational Self-selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy (Maastricht University)
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Assignment, Hierarchies and Upper Tails
Michael Sattinger (State University of New York, Albany)
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Organization and Inequality among U.S. Lawyers: 1977-1997
Luis Garicano (University of Chicago)
Thomas Hubbard (Northwestern University)

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM

Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM
Session: Empirical Analyses of Organizations and Markets (AEA)
Presiding: Thomas Hubbard (Northwestern University)

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Luis Garicano (University of Chicago)
Thomas Hubbard (Northwestern University)

Word-of-mouth in Movies with Platform Release: Theory and Evidence
Yijuan Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
Qiang Pan (University of Pennsylvania)

Do Lawyers Work for Clients? Using Timing of Dropped Cases to Estimate Incentive Misalignment
Yasutora Watanabe (Northwestern University)
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Institutional Determinants of Vertical Integration: Evidence from China
Joseph P.H. Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jun Huang (Shanghai University of Finance & Economics)
Randall Morck (University of Alberta)
Bernard Yeung (New York University)


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