2009-6-24 9:25:20

Time: May 17 – May 18, 2008  Organized by

School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Research

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), Shanghai, China

Address: 111 Wuchuan Road, Building of School of Economics, SUFE       The workshop will provide a forum for economists from China and all over the world to exchange their ideas and methods of empirical studies, and it is hopeful to facilitate economic researches in China. The working language of the workshop will be English.

Keynote Speakers and Papers:

Richard Burkhauser, Cornell University The Effectiveness of Minimum Wage Increases in Reducing Poverty: Past, Present, and Future  John N. Dinardo, University of Michigan Constructive Proposals for Dealing with Attrition: An Empirical Example  Peter Gottschalk, Boston College Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error  Michael Hurd, RAND Center for the Study of Aging The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Pane Data  Gan Li, Texas A&M University An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Types  Bruce Meyer, Chicago University Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption   The workshop also offers two supplemental short courses:  1. May 14 - May 16, Michael Hurd, “The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption:  Theory and Empirical Findings in the Older Population’    2. May 21- May 22, Bruce Meyer, “Econometrics of Natural Experiments”

Registration:

For better organization, participants are required to register with Tracy Shen at tracyshen@mail.shufe.edu.cn by May 12, 2008. There is no registration fee and you are responsible for your own accommodation. For more information about the workshop, please visit the school website: www.econ.shufe.edu.cn