Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
March 26, 2021
on Zoom.us
Friday, March 26
11:00 am

Job-Seekers Send Too Many Applications: Experimental Evidence and a Partial Solution (slides)

John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm

Bounds on a Slope from Size Restrictions on Economic Shocks

Marco Stenborg Petterson, CSEF
David G. Seim, Stockholm University
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
1:00 pm

Measuring Labor Demand for Workers with a Criminal Conviction

Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Discussant:
Sonja B. Starr, University of Chicago
2:00 pm

Students' Heterogeneous Preferences and the Uneven Spatial Distribution of Colleges

Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Junjie Guo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Adam Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher Avery, Harvard University and NBER
Session on Labor Markets during Covid-19
3:00 pm

Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market (slides)

Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Fabian Lange, McGill University and NBER
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
3:40 pm

The Impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on Job Search and Vacancy Creation

Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor, Inc.
4:20 pm

Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
Fiona E. Greig, The Vanguard Group
Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel M. Sullivan, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Maxwell W. Liebeskind, Nyca Partners
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn