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
Friday, April 3
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages

Ester Faia, Goethe University Frankfurt
Benjamin Lochner, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:10 am

How Do Intermediaries Shape Labor Market Efficiency? An Equilibrium Model and Experimental Evidence

Daniel Haanwinckel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Caio Waisman, Northwestern University
9:50 am
Break
10:10 am

Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Naman Nishesh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:35 am

Large-Scale Public Hiring and Labor Market Outcomes

Charles A. Bee, U.S. Census Bureau
Ayushi Narayan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:00 am
Break
11:10 am

The Effects of Mandated Maternity Leave on Labor Market Outcomes in India

Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore
Stephanie Hao, Princeton University
Lisa Y. Ho, Columbia University
Garima Sharma, Northwestern University
Shreya Tandon, Harvard University
11:50 am
Lunch
12:50 pm

Retention or Regressivity? The Empirical Effects of 401(k) Vesting Schedules

Guillermo Carranza, Yale University
Aaron S. Goodman, The Vanguard Group
1:30 pm

Rosie the Researcher: How Female WWII Hires Changed Science in US Firms

Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Joint Custody and Interstate Migration

Abi Adams, Northwestern University
Oğuz Bayraktar, University of Bath
Thomas H. Jorgensen, University of Copenhagen
Hamish Low, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER
2:55 pm

The Worker’s Brain Under the Expert’s Hat: Occupation Coding, Tacit Knowledge, and Wages

Emma T. du Puy, Columbia University
Gina Markov, Columbia University
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
3:20 pm

AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications

Marius Guenzel, University of Pennsylvania
Shimon Kogan, Reichman University
Marina Niessner, Indiana University
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn