Labor Economics, Second Mini, Fall 2015

Tuesday October 22^nd: Chetty, Hendren, Klein and Saez, QJE “Where is the Land of Opportunity?”

Chetty, Hendren, Klein, Saez & Turner, AER P&P “Is the United States Still the Land of Opportunity?”

Both Papers here

Thursday October 24^th: Fernandez and Rogerson AER 1998 “Public Education and Income Distribution”

Tuesday November 3^rd: Badel 2015 “A Racial Inequality Trap”

Thursday November 5^th: Heathcote, Perri and Violante RED 2010 “Unequal We Stand”

Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull and Violante ECA 2000 “Capital Skill Complementarity”

Tuesday November 10^th Autor and Dorn AER 2013 “Polarization”

Thursday November 12^th Abbott, Gallipoli, Meghir and Violante, 2015 “Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium”

Tuesday November 17^th Cai and Heathcote, 2016? “Income Inequality and College Tuition”

Thursday November 19^th Holter, 2015 “Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence”

Tuesday November 24^th Heathcote and Tsujiyama, 2015 “Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey” + Slides

Thursday December 3^rd Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante, 2016 “Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework”

Tuesday December 8^th Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante, 2016

Thursday December 10^th Sommer 2015 “Fertility Choice in a Life-Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk”