Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by Lisa B. Kahn and Isaac Sorkin
October 16, 2026
Gleacher Center, Room 600, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL

Thursday, October 15

6:30 pm

Group Dinner -- Osteria Via Stato, 620 N State Street

Friday, October 16

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:35 am

Introductions

8:40 am

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, The University of Chicago and NBER
Steven X. Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:20 am

Dynamic Wage Setting: The Role of Monopsony Power and Employment Costs

Mons Chan, Queen's University
Elena Mattana, Aarhus University
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
Ming Xu, Queen's University

10:00 am

Break

10:20 am

Re-organizing Work inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption

Eleonora Brandimarti, University of Glasgow
Virginia Minni, The University of Chicago and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER

11:00 am

The Distributional Effects of Firm Demand Changes: Evidence from U.S. Worker-Owner Data

Sean Y. Wang, U.S. Census Bureau
Samuel G. Young, Arizona State University

11:40 am

Lunch

12:40 pm

Regulating Paid Time Off: Worker Sorting and Labor-Market Incidence

Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
Simon Quach, University of Southern California and NBER

1:20 pm

Optimal Place-Based Transfers: Theory, Identification, and a New Survey for Measurement

Md Moshi Ul Alam, Clark University
Morris Davis, Rutgers University
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

2:20 pm

GLP-1–Induced Weight Loss and the Female Obesity Penalty

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

The Child Cost Index

Christina Patterson, The University of Chicago and NBER
Heather Sarsons, The University of Chicago and NBER

3:40 pm

Adjourn