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IZA World of Labor panel discussion on health and the labor markets

IZA World of Labor panel discussion on health and the labor markets with Carol Graham from Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Chris Ruhm from University of Virginia and N. Meltem Daysal from the University of Copenhagen

Questions to all participants include:

- Does how happy we are affect how we do in the labor market? Do we work more efficiently, work more? In other words, what is the interaction of feelings and work?
- It is fair to say you are the “go-to person” on the effects of recession on health. What do we know on this? Is the effect on mortality, on overall health, or both? Or is it just an effect on feelings about health?
- We’ve talked about health generally. But how much does mental health matter, both for kids and even more important for adults in the labor market?
- Beyond the relationship of health to worker effort and employment, are there other effects of health that we can observe in the labor market?
- “If you have your health, you have everything,” is an old line that one still hears. Is it correct?

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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of sport

IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of sport with Mike Leeds from Temple University, Lawrence Kahn from Cornell University and Kerry Papps from University of Bradford

The questions in the discussion include:
- Could you generalize about the size of discriminatory outcomes in sports? If not, how about some examples, including from the world’s most important sport—football—which we Americans call soccer?
- Make or buy is a standard question for managers generally? What about in sports—train your own, or poach from other sports franchises?
- How can we measure individual productivity in sports, when, except for golf or tennis or skiing, for examples, the outcome results from team efforts?
- Why should someone with no interest in sports per se care about this? And if they should, what are some additional examples that are readily generalizable?
- Babe Ruth made $100K in his peak year, around double the U.S. President then. (He justified the salary by saying he was more productive than Calvin Coolidge!) Today’s stars in are earning 100 times what the U.S. president is paid. Is The Babe’s explanation still valid, or is there more to the astronomical salaries?

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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education

IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education with Shqiponja Telhaj from the University of Sussex, Eric Taylor from Harvard University and John Friedman from Brown University

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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of crime

IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of crime with Nadia Campaniello from the University of Torino and Kevin Schnepel from Simon Fraser University

The questions discussed include:

- How does education affect the kind of crimes one might engage in?
- What crime might one be more likely to commit as a college graduate?
- How can we reduce crime through diversion?
- What kind of crimes do women commit that are different to men?
- If there is a crime that both men and women commit – is there a difference in the amount of jail time served? Are women treated with more leniency?
- The opioid epidemic – if we entirely eliminated opioid addiction, how much would property crime be reduced?
- What makes repeat crime more likely?

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