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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Arnaud Dupuy (Maastricht 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)

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