SI 2016 Personnel Economics
Organized by Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and David Card
July 27-28, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Wednesday, July 27

1:00 pm

Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship

Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Microsoft Research
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

2:00 pm

Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets

Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

3:30 pm

Human Bias and Machine Learning: Evidence from Resume Screening

Bo Cowgill, Columbia University

Thursday, July 28

8:45 am

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market

David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER

9:30 am

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Fabian Lange, McGill University and NBER

10:30 am

The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

11:15 am

Career Effects of Occupational Mobility inside Firms

Elizabeth Forsythe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1:00 pm

What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Megha Patnaik, Luiss University
Itay Saporta Eksten, Tel Aviv University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER

2:00 pm

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

3:00 pm

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers

Adnan Khan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER