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Labor Studies Program Meeting
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas April 3, 2026 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL, Zoom |
| Thursday, April 2 | |
| 6:00 pm |
Group Dinner - Location TBA
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| Friday, April 3 | |
| 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 am |
Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages |
| 9:10 am |
How Do Intermediaries Shape Labor Market Efficiency? An Equilibrium Model and Experimental Evidence |
| 9:50 am |
Break
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| 10:10 am |
Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel |
| 10:35 am |
Large-Scale Public Hiring and Labor Market Outcomes |
| 11:00 am |
Break
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| 11:10 am |
The Effects of Mandated Maternity Leave on Labor Market Outcomes in India |
| 11:50 am |
Lunch
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| 12:50 pm |
Retention or Regressivity? The Empirical Effects of 401(k) Vesting Schedules |
| 1:30 pm |
Rosie the Researcher: How Female WWII Hires Changed Science in US Firms |
| 2:10 pm |
Break
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| 2:30 pm |
Joint Custody and Interstate Migration |
| 2:55 pm |
The Worker’s Brain Under the Expert’s Hat: Occupation Coding, Tacit Knowledge, and Wages |
| 3:20 pm |
AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications |
| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn
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