SI 2015 Personnel Economics
Organized by Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and David Card
July 22-23, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Wednesday, July 22

1:00 pm

Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

Costas Cavounidis, University of Warwick
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

2:00 pm

“Since you’re so rich, you must be really smart”: Talent and the Finance Wage Premium

Michael J. Boehm, TU Dortmund University
Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics
Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics

3:30 pm

Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments

Orie Shelef, University of Utah
Amy Nguyen-Chyung, University of Michigan

Thursday, July 23

8:45 am

Teachers Pay For Performance in the Long-Run: Effects on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood

Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER

9:30 am

Captains, Carbon, and Charity: A Field Experiment on the Impacts of Information, Targets, and Altruistic Incentives on Airline Pilot Behavior

Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities
John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER

10:30 am

Discretion in Hiring

Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:15 am

Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection and Performance in Public Services Delivery.

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

1:00 pm

Do Good Promotion Tournaments Make Bad Managers? Evidence of the Peter Principle in Sales

Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER

2:00 pm

Persistently Inefficient? The Common-Agency Problem and Organizational Fragmentation in the US Healthcare System

Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

3:00 pm

Toxic Workers

Dylan B. Minor, University of California, Los Angeles