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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Labor Studies

David Card, Organizer

July 25-29, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 25
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
8:30 am	Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
9:20 am	Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago and NBER Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER Divergent Paths: Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Racial Earnings Differences, 1940-2013
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Julien M. Lafortune, University of California at Berkeley Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement
11:20 am	Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER Estimation of an Equilibrium Model with Externalities: Combining the Strengths of Structural Models and Quasi-Experiments
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER David J. Price, Stanford University Jae Song, Social Security Administration Till M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Firming up Inequality
1:50 pm	Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Brian Bell, University of Oxford Stephen Machin, University College London Minimum Wages and Firm Value
3:50 pm	Emily L. Breza, Columbia University and NBER Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Yogita Shamdasani, Columbia University The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
4:40 pm	Benjamin Friedrich, Yale University Lisa Laun, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER Earnings Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26
	Morning Session joint with Public Economics
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
8:30 am	Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States, 1913-2013
9:20 am	David W. Berger, Northwestern University and NBER Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Stimulating Housing Markets
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States
11:20 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Jordan C. Kyle, IFPRI Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sudarno Sumarto, TNP2K and SMERU Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
12:10 pm	Lunch
	NBER Market Design: 2016 Methods Lectures
1:15 pm	Welcome
1:20 pm	Al Roth: Game Theory and Market Design
2:05 pm	Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu: Design of Matching Markets
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Parag Pathak: Research Design meets Market Design
3:45 pm	Nikhil Agarwal: Revealed Preference Analysis in Matching Markets
4:30 pm	Break
4:40 pm	Itai Ashlagi: Matching Dynamics and Computation
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 27
	Morning joint with Economics of Education
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
8:30 am	Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego and NBER Abhijeet Singh University College London Alejandro J. Ganimian, Harvard University Teaching All Students, and Not Just the Top of the Class: Experimental Evidence on Technology-led Education in India
	Afternoon joint with Personnel
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Arizona State University Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
1:45 pm	Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
3:30 pm	Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Automation of Subjective Judgments: Theory and Evidence from Resume Screening
4:15 pm	Adjourn
4:30 pm	Martin Feldstein Lecture
6:00 pm	Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 28
	Morning session joint with Children
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER Robert T. Jensen, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education
9:20 am	Naomi Gershoni, Tel Aviv University Corinne S. Low, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics Camille Landais, London School of Economics Jakob Sogaard, University of Copenhagen Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
11:20 am	Robert Paul Hartley, University of Kentucky Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky James P. Ziliak, University of Kenturcky Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
	Labor Studies continues
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Alexander Torgovitsky, Northwestern University Andres Santos, University of California at San Diego Using Instrumental Variables for Inference about Policy Relevant Treatment Parameters
2:15 pm	Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER: Discussion (slides)
2:30 pm	Q and A
2:40 pm	Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER Doing More When You're Running LATE: Applying Marginal Treatment Effect Methods to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Experiments
3:25 pm	Michael Kolesar, Princeton University: Discussion (slides)
3:40 pm	Q and A
3:50 pm	Matias D. Cattaneo, University of Michigan Michael Jansson, University of California at Berkeley Xinwei Ma, University of Michigan Slides of "Marginal Treatment Effects with Many Instruments"
4:35 pm	Edward Vytlacil, Yale University and NBER: Discussion (slides)
4:50 pm	Q and A
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 29
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries Morning session joint with the Economics of Crime Group
8:30 am	Will S. Dobbie, Princeton University and NBER Jacob S. Goldin, Department of the Treasury Crystal Yang, Harvard University The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
9:30 am	Manudeep Bhuller, University of Chicago Gordon Dahl, University of California at San Diego and NBER Katrine V. Løken, University of Bergen Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Amanda Agan, Princeton University Sonja B. Starr, University of Michigan Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment
12:00 n	Lunch