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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Personnel Economics

 

Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw, Organizers

 

July 25-26, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline D/E

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 25

12:15 pm

Lunch


Joint Session with Labor Studies


1:15 pm


Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
James Liang, Stanford University
John Roberts, Stanford University
Zhichun (Jenny) Ying, Stanford University
Does Working from Home Work? Evidence From a Chinese Experiment


2:15 pm


Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley
Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-sponsored General Training


3:15 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Ghazala Azmat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Rosa Ferrer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers


4:30 pm


Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota
General Training and Market Thinness: An Empirical Test of the Skill-weights Theory of Human Capital


5:30 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Thursday, July 26


8:00 am


Coffee and pastries


8:30 am


Brian Bell, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Firm Performance and Wages: Evidence from across the Corporate Hierarchy


9:30 am


Break


9:45 am


Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heekung Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CEO Pay and Information Technology


10:45 am


Break


11:00 am


Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics
Dean Karlan, Yale University and NBER
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment


2:00 pm


Break


2:15 pm


Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Yale University
Nina Singh, Rajasthan Police
Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police


3:15 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Takao Kato, Colgate University
Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data


4:30 pm


Break


4:45 pm


Erik Gronqvist
Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
The Making of a Manager: Military Leadership Training and Labor Market Outcomes


5:45 pm


Break