Pacific Northwest Labor Day 2016

First Annual PNWLD

Seattle, WA (September 23, 2016)

Program

• The Productivity of Rural Non-Farm Self-Employment in India (Joshua D. Merfeld, University of Washington)
  
• Time Allocation Between Children, the Home and Work: Theory and Evidence on the ‘Parental Time – Education Gradient’ Puzzle (Tímea Laura Molnár, University of British Columbia) |
• Only if You Pay Me More: Field Experiments Support Compensating Wage Differentials Theory (Claus Portner, with Nail Hassairi, and Michael Toomim, Seattle University and University of Washington)
  
• The Impact of Labor Market Conditions on Job Creation: Evidence from Firm Level Data (Ekaterina Roshchina, University of Washington)
  
• The Language of the Unheard: Legal Services and the 1960s Race Riots (Jamein P. Cunningham, Portland State University)
  
• Mexico’s Seguro Popular Health Reform: Income Transfer Program or Something More? (Melissa Knox, University of Washington)
• The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Fee Increase, Prior Medicaid Generosity, and Disparities in Access to Primary Care (Rajiv Sharma, Sarah Tinkler, Arnab Mitra, Sudeshna Pal, Raven Susu-Mago, Miron Stano, Portland State University and Oakland University)
• Effect of Fiscal Stress Labels on Municipal Government Finances, Housing Prices, and the Quality of Public Services: Evidence from Ohio (Paul Thompson, Oregon State University)