Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 1:15pm to 3:15pm
Hallock Auditorium, Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
122 Elm Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
Moderator: Richard Steckel ’66
Stand and Deliver: Long-Term Outcomes at Boston’s Charter High Schools
Presenter: Joshua Angrist ’82
Discussant: Tobias Pfutze
Performance Pay and Worker Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Presenter: David Huffman ’96
Discussant: Fabian Lange
A Distinguished University Professor in the department of economics at Ohio State University, Richard Steckel specializes in measuring and analyzing long-term trends in the standard of living.
Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a research associate in National Bureau of Economic Research programs on children, education, and labor studies.
Tobias Pfutze joined the economics department at Oberlin in 2009. With an interest in development economics and political economy, he studies the effects of migration on sending countries as well as the emergence/persistence of democratic institutions.
David Huffman is an associate professor of economics at Swarthmore College and associate editor of Management Science. Most of his research lies at the intersection of three fields: behavioral economics, experimental economics, and labor economics.
Fabian Lange is an associate professor in the department of economics at McGill University.
Part of Learning and Labor Economics, a conference recognizing the 100th anniversary of Oberlin’s economics department and honoring Albert Rees ’43.
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