Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
February 22, 2019
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Yellen Conference Room, 1st Floor, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, February 21
6:30 pm
Dinner
Perbacco Restaurant
230 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Friday, February 22
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

STEM Careers and Technological Change

David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Kadeem L. Noray, Harvard University
9:15 am

Judging Judge Fixed Effects: Testing the Identifying Assumptions in Judge Fixed-Effects Designs

Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University and NBER
Emily C. Leslie, Brigham Young University
9:55 am
Break
10:10 am

The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University
10:55 am

Immigrants’ Earnings Growth and Return Migration from the U.S.: Examining their Determinants using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
11:35 am
Lunch- Market Street Dining Room, 4th Floor
12:35 pm

Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform

Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
1:20 pm

Disability Insurance and Gender Differences: Evidence from Merged Survey-Administrative Data

Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
Hamish Low, University of Oxford
2:00 pm
Break
2:10 pm

Big Push Policies and Firm-Level Barriers to Employing Women: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jennifer Peck, Swarthmore College
Mehmet Seflek, University of California, Berkeley
2:55 pm

Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University and NBER
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:35 pm
Adjourn