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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014

 

 

 

Labor Studies

 

July 21 - July 25, 2014

 

 

 

David Card, Organizer

 

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

5 Cambridge Parkway

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

 

Monday, July 21:

 

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
Quasi-experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Long Term Outcomes

 

 

 

 

9:20 am

Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
(with Rafael Dix-Carneiro)
Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

 

 

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

 

 

10:30 am

Rucker Johnson, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
(with C. Kirabo Jackson)
The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, & Adult Outcomes

 

 

 

 

11:20 am

Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
(with David Card and Ana Rute Cardoso)
Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

 

 

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
(with David Atkin, Azam Chaudry, Shamyla Chaudry, and Amit Khandelwal)
Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

 

 

 

 

2:05 pm

Mette Foged, University of Copenhagen
(with Giovanni Peri)
Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

 

 

 

 

2:55 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

3:15 pm

Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Extraction by State and Local Governments

 

 

 

 

4:05 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

4:15 pm

Stefano Della Vigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
(with Attila Lindner, Balazs Reizer, and Johannes Schmieder)
Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary

 

 

 

 

4:55 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 22:

Morning Session joint with Public Economics

 


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries

 


8:30 am


Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Adam Isen, Department of the Treasury
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
The Effect of Youth Employment on Future Earnings: Evidence from Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

 


9:20 am


Arash Nekoei, Harvard University
Andrea Weber, University of Mannheim
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

 


10:10 am


Break

 


10:30 am


Ioana Marinescu, University of Chicago
The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Large Online Job Board

 


11:20 am


Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University
David Sims, Brigham Young University
Olga B. Stoddard, Brigham Young University
Did You Build That? Effort, Luck,and Voting for Redistribution

 


12:10 pm


Lunch

 


Afternoon:  Methods Lectures, Theory and Application of Network Models

 

 

 

Wednesday July 23: 

Joint morning session with Education group

 


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries

 


9:00 am


Thomas Dee, Stanford University and NBER
Will Dobbie, Princeton University
Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER
Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER
Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations

 

10:00 am

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sally Hudson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
Smart Money: A Randomized Evaluation of Targeted Post-Secondary Aid

 

11:00 am

Break

 

11:15 am

Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER
W. Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER
Juan Saavedra, University of Southern California
Evan Riehl, Columbia University
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 


1:00 pm


Christopher T. Stanton, University of Utah and NBER
Catherine Thomas, Columbia University
Learning Through Interviews and Hires: Employer Search and Experimentation in the Job Matching Process

 


2:00 pm


Stephen V. Burks, University of Minnesota, Morris
Bo Cowgill, University of California at Berkeley
Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto
Michael Housman, Evolv, Inc.
The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals

 


3:00 pm


Break

 


3:30 pm


Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
Yaw Nyarko, New York University
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

 


4:30 pm


Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 24:

Joint with Childrens Group

 

 

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Shari Eli, University of Toronto
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern Universityand NBER
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

 

The Long Run Impact of Welfare

 

 

9:20 am

Mike Geruso, Princeton University
Heather Royer, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER

 

The Impact of Education on Fertility: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the UK

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER
Hannes Schwandt, Princeton University

 

Short and Long Run Effects of Unemployment on Fertility

 

 

11:20 am

Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Sandy Black, University of Texas, Austin and NBER
Aline Butikofer, Norwegian School of Economics
Paul Devereux, University College Dublin

 

This Is Only a Test? Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

Labor Studies Workshop continues

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M, Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Sample Statistics

 

 

 

 

2:05 pm

Alan Krueger and Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER
(with Xiaotong Niu)
The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias in the Current Population Survey

 

 

 

 

2:55 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

3:15 pm

Melvin Stephens Jr., University of Michigan and NBER
(with Takashi Unayama)
Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data

 

 

 

 

4:05 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

4:15 pm

Alberto Abadie, Harvard University and NBER
(with Matthew Chingos and Martin West)
Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments

 

 

 

 

4:55 pm

Adjourn

 

Friday, July 25:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Morning joint with Economics of Crime


8:30 am


Michael Mueller-Smith, Columbia University
The Criminal and Labor Market Impacts of Incarceration: Identifying Mechanisms and Estimating Household Spillovers


9:30 am


Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University
Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime


10:30 am


Mirko Draca, Warwick University
Theodore Koutmeridis, University of St Andrews
Stephen Machin, University College London
The
Changing Returns to Crime: How do Criminals Respond to Changes in Goods Prices?

11:30 am

Roberto Galbiati, CNRS and Sciences Po
Aurelie Ouss, Harvard University
Arnaud Philippe, University of Paris 1 and CREST
Jobs and Re-offending after Incarceration


12:30 pm


Lunch and Adjourn