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)
15:15- Van leaves the East West Center