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         　　　　　　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.

 

 

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”

 

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