6th TPLS in Hawaii

Organizers: Takao Kato (Colgate, Columbia, IZA, and TCER), Peter Kuhn (UC-Santa Barbara, IZA, CESifo, and NBER), Fumio Ohtake (Osaka), and Timothy Halliday (Hawaii and IZA)

Sponsors: Osaka University (Global COE) and University of Hawaii, Manoa

Dates: December 17th (Monday) and 18th (Tuesday), 2012

Place: PacificRoom, East West Center, 1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848

PROGRAM (participant names in bold)

Monday, December 17, 2012

9:00- Van leaves Hotel New Otani

09:30-10:15

Peter Kuhn

Are Women More Attracted to Team Incentives Than Men?(with Marie Claire Villeval)

10:15-11:00

Hiroko Okudaira (Okayama)

Older Sisters and Younger Brothers:The Impact of Siblings on Preferences for Competitions (with Yusuke Kinari, Noriko Mizutani, Fumio Ohtake, and Akira Kawaguchi)

11:00-11:15 break

11:15-12:00

Timothy Halliday

Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID

12:00-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:15

Kathryn Shaw (Stanford)

Incentives for Leadership: Multitasking in a Professional Services Firm (with Ann Bartel and Brianna Cardiff)

14:15-15:00

Hideo Owan (Tokyo)

Dynamics of the Gender Gap in the Workplace: An econometric case study of a large Japanese firm

(with Takao Kato and Daiji Kawaguchi)

15:00-15:30 break

15:30-16:15

Hodaka Morita (UNSW)

Labor Turnover, Firm-Sponsored Training, and Product Market Competition (with Jed DeVaro and Arghya Ghosh)

16:15-17:00

Masaru Sasaki (Osaka)

Measuring the impact of natural disasters on income, social capital and happiness: A case of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (with Fumio Ohtake, Naoko Okuyama, and Kengo Yasui)

17:00-17:45

Kengo Yasui (Ritsumeikan)

The Long Term Effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the Wage Distribution in Japan (with Fumio Ohtake, Naoko Okuyama and Masaru Sasaki)

18:00- Van leaves the East West Center

19:00- reception

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

9:00- Van leaves Hotel New Otani

09:30-10:15

Till Von Wachter (UCLA)

the Effect of UI Extensions on Reemployment Wages

10:15-11:00

Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi)

Good jobs, Bad jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade (with Takao Kato)

11:00-11:15 break

11:15-12:00

Edward Lazear (Stanford)

Making Do With Less: WhyProductivity Rises During Recessions (with Kathryn Shaw and Christopher Stanton)

12:00-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:15

Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi)

Fewer School days, More Inequality

14:15-15:00

Marjorie Pajaron (Stanford)

Remittances, Informal Loans, and Assets as Risk-Coping Mechanisms:Evidence from Agricultural Households in Rural Philippines.

15:15- Van leaves the East West Center