COE Conference
Frontiers of Microeconometrics
Theory and Applications

Lecture Hall No. 2 on the 3rd floor,
Economics Research Building,
Faculty of Economics,
University of Tokyo



Co-organized by:

The 21st Century COE Program, "Normative Evaluation and Social Choice of Contemporary Economic Systems"(COE/RES), Hitotsubashi University

The 21st Century COE Program, "Center for the Research on Relationship between Market Economy and Non-Market Institutions"(CEMANO), University of Tokyo

The 21st Century COE Program, "Behavioral Macrodynamics based on Surveys and Experiments", Osaka University

The 21st Century COE Program, "Interfaces for Advances Economic Analysis", Kyoto University

The Kikawada Foundation

The Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE)


March 15



Session 1: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam), "Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Effects: A Comparison of Methods"

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee break

Session 2: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Patrick Kline (Yale University), "Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program"


March 16



Session 3: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Kenneth Chay (Brown University), "Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation into the Role of Status in Life Expectancy"

11:00 am - 11:30 am Coffee break

Session 4: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Han Hong (Stanford University), "Identification and Estimation of a Discrete Game of Complete Information"

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Conference lunch at the meeting room on the 6th floor

Session 5: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Victor Chernozhukov (MIT), "Quantile and Probability Curves without Crossing"

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee break

Session 6: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Elie Tamer (Northwestern University) , "The Identification Power of Equilibrium in Simple Games"