Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
November 8, 2024
Intercontinental San Francisco, Intercon Room, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, Zoom

Friday, November 8

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.

Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Kyle Hancock, Princeton University
Jing Wu, Princeton University

9:40 am

Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation

Aidan Toner-Rodgers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:20 am

Break

10:40 am

Assortative Matching and Wages: The Role of Selection

Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

11:20 am

One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Yale University
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Salvatore Lattanzio, Banca d'Italia
Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

12:00 pm

Lunch

Lighting Talk

12:02 pm

The following paper will be available to in-person participants only

1:00 pm

Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic

Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Elira Kuka, The George Washington University and NBER
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

1:20 pm

The Economic Burden of Burnout

Arash Nekoei, Stockholm University
Josef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University
Dominik R. Wehr, Stockholm School of Economics

2:00 pm

Break

2:20 pm

Asymmetric Information in Labor Contracts: Evidence from an Online Experiment

Daniel Herbst, University of Arizona

Lighting Talk

3:00 pm

Health Womanpower: The Role of Federal Policy in Women's Entry into Medicine

Thomas E. Helgerman, University of Minnesota

Lighting Talk

3:20 pm

Measuring Gender Norms for Men and Women, and their Implications

Joshua T. Dean, University of Chicago
Christine L. Exley, University of Michigan
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and NBER
Heather Sarsons, University of Chicago and NBER

3:40 pm

Adjourn