Moffitt Conference

The Conference in Honor of Robert A. Moffitt was held on September 9-10, 2022.

Johns Hopkins Charles Commons, Corner Charles Street and 33rd Street
Conference Rooms A and B, Second Floor
Use our map of Homewood campus and a list of eateries.

Conference Schedule

September 9

8:00 a.m.          Coffee

8:30 a.m.          Welcome

Session 1:

8:45 a.m.          Joseph Altonji (Yale), “Earnings, Marriage, and Lifetime Family Income: Generational Change for Men and Women,” co-authored with Daniel Giraldo-Paez (Yale), Disa Hynsjö (Yale), and Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve)
9:25 a.m.          Q&A

9:45 a.m.          Gizem Kosar (New York Federal Reserve), “Workers Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk,” co-authored with Wilbert van der Klaauw (New York Federal Reserve)
10:25 a.m.        Q&A

10:45a.m.         Break

11:00 a.m.        V. Joseph Hotz (Duke), “The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the U.S.,” co-authored with Anna Ziff (Duke) and Emily Wiemers (Syracuse)
11:40 a.m.        Q&A

12:00 p.m.        Lunch (Faculty and Guests)

Session 2: 

1:00 p.m.          Marc Chan (Melbourne), “Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions, and Child Development,” co-authored with Kai Liu (University of Cambridge)
1:40 p.m.          Q&A

2:00 p.m.          Chris Flinn (NYU), “Actors in the Child Development Process”, co-authored with Daniela Del Boca (University of Torino), Ewout Verriest (Penn State), and Matthew Wiswall (Wisconsin)
2:40 p.m.          Q&A

3:00p.m.           Break

3:15 p.m.          James J. Heckman (Chicago), “The Impact of Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills”, co-authored with Jin Zhou (Chicago), Bei Liu (CDRF), and Mai Lu (CDRF)
3:55 p.m.          Q&A

Session 3:

4:15 p.m.          Policy Roundtable on the Past and Future of the Safety Net: Dave Ribar (Georgia State) (Moderator), Connie Citro (NAS), Sheldon Danziger (Russell Sage), Tim Smeeding (Wisconsin), Bobbi Wolfe (Wisconsin), Gary Burtless (Brookings)

5:15 p.m.          Adjourn

6:30 p.m.          Reception and Dinner (By invitation only)
                          Colonnade Hotel, 4 W. University Parkway

September 10

8:30 a.m.          Coffee

Session 4:

9:00 a.m.          Charles Manski (Northwestern), “Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up”
9:40 a.m.          Q&A

10:00 a.m.        Petra Todd (Pennsylvania), “Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wage Hikes: A Spatial Job Search Approach“, co-authored with Weilong Zhang (University of Cambridge)
10:40 a.m.        Q&A

11:00a.m.         Break

11:15 a.m.        Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins), “A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics,” co-authored with Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan), and Jiandong Sun (Guangzhou)
11:55 a.m.        Q&A

12:15 p.m.        Lunch (Faculty and Guests)

Session 5:

1:00 p.m.          Richard Blundell (UCL), “Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility“, co-authored with Christopher Bollinger (Kentucky), Charles Hokayem (Census), and James P. Ziliak (Kentucky)
1:40 p.m.          Q&A

2:00 p.m.          Michael Keane (UNSW), “Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity“, co-authored with Timothy Neal (UNSW)
2:40 p.m.          Q&A

3:00 p.m.          Adjourn