Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
April 4, 2025
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL
Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, IL

Friday, April 4

The following paper will not be streamed live

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast (hosted by the NBER)

The following presentation will not be available on YouTube. The livestream will begin at 9:45 am

9:00 am

The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military

Kyle Greenberg, West Point and NBER
Melanie Wasserman, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
E. Anna Weber, United States Military Academy at West Point

9:45 am

Miss-Allocation: The Value of Workplace Gender Composition and Occupational Segregation

Rachel J. Schuh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

10:25 am

Break

10:45 am

Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit

Manisha Jain, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

11:30 am

Advising Job Seekers in Occupations with Poor Prospects: A Field Experiment

Michele Belot, Cornell University
Bart K. de Koning, Cornell University
Didier Fouarge, University of Maastricht
Philipp Kircher, Cornell University and NBER
Paul Muller, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sandra Phlippen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

11:55 am

Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector

Alessandra Fenizia, The George Washington University and NBER
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

12:15 pm

Lunch (hosted by the NBER)

1:15 pm

Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration

George J. Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Nate Breznau, German Institute for Adult Education/Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning

1:40 pm

Expertise at Work: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts

Cäcilia Lipowski, ifo Institute
Anna M. Salomons, Tilburg University
Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage, Utrecht University

2:20 pm

Break

2:40 pm

Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Legal Profession

Adam Chilton, University of Chicago
Jacob Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER
Kyle T. Rozema, Northwestern University
Sarath Sanga, Yale University

3:05 pm

Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten

John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Xiaoyang Ye, Brown University
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER

3:45 pm

Adjourn