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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Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM
Session: Consumer Bankruptcy and the Credit Market (AEA)
Presiding: Michelle White (University of California-San Diego)

Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies
Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario)
James MacGee (University of Western Ontario)
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

Student Debt and Bankruptcy
Sean Campbell (Federal Reserve Board)
Karen Pence (Federal Reserve Board)

Relationship Lending and Bankruptcy: Evidence from the Consumer Credit Market
Sumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Souphala Chomsisengphet (U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
Chunlin Liu (University of Nevada-Reno)
Nicholas Souleles (University of Pennsylvania)

Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Market Competition
Astrid Dick (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Andreas Lehnert (Federal Reserve Board)

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM
Session: Consumer Bankruptcy and Credit Scoring: Recent Contributions (AEA)
Presiding: Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
Liran Einav (Stanford University and NBER)
Jon Levin (Stanford University and NBER)
William Adams (Citigroup)
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Information Technology and the Rise of Household Bankruptcy
Borghan Narajabad (Rice University)
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A Finite-Life, Private-Information Theory of Unsecured Debt
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (University of Pennsylvania)
Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Dean Corbae (University of Texas, Austin)

Credit Scoring and Endogenous Stigma
Jim MacGee (University of Western Ontario)
Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario)
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

The Profitability of Payday Lending
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University)
Jeremy Tobacman (University of Oxford)

Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM

Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM
Session: People and Growth: Demography, Human Capital, and Economic Growth (AEA)
Presiding: John Seater (North Carolina State University)

When and Why Did Technical Change Become Skill Biased?
Ashley Lester (Brown University)

Time Allocation between Innovation and Education
Maurizio Iacopetta (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)
Matthias Doepke (University of California-Los Angeles)

The Role of Adult Mortality in the Transmission of Knowledge
Michael Bar (San Francisco State University)
Oksana Leukhina (University of North Carolina)


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