SI 2018 Labor Studies
Organized by David Autor and Alexandre Mas
July 23-27, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Monday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Demographics and Automation

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
9:20 am

The Geography of Consumption Inequality

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator

Doruk Cengiz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Ben Zipperer, Economic Policy Institute
11:20 am

Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Alessandra L. Gonzalez, University of Chicago
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich
1:50 pm

An Audit Alternative: Measuring Employer Preferences and Beliefs without Deception (slides)

Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Colin Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Border Walls

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Caue de Castro Dobbin, Georgetown University
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
3:50 pm

Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Joan Monras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Javier Vazquez, University of Barcelona
Ferran Elias Moreno, Columbia University
4:40 pm

Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods

Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (slides)

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
9:20 am

Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL

Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Winnie L. van Dijk, Yale University and NBER
Nicholas S. Mader, NORC at the University of Chicago
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Pre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design

Simon Freyaldenhoven, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Christian Hansen, University of Chicago
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
11:20 am

Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion

Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
David Schoenherr, Seoul National University
Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:10 pm

Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data

Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
Dan Herbst, University of Arizona
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
2:00 pm

Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Timothy N. Bond, Purdue University
Mary K. Batistich, University of Notre Dame
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others? (slides)

Edward P. Lazear, Stanford University
4:00 pm

Increased Concentration of Occupations, Outsourcing, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Education
8:30 am

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University and NBER
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:20 am

When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

Charlie Eaton, University of California, Merced
Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University and NBER
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

The Effect of Superstar Firms on College Major Choice (slides)

Darwin Choi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Dong Lou, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Abhiroop Mukherjee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
11:20 am

School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment

Owen Thompson, Williams College and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel
1:10 pm

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity

Lucia Del Carpio, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD
2:00 pm

What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?

Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Nick Zubanov, University of Konstanz
3:10 pm

Chains of Opportunity Revisited

Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Giulia Bovini, Banca d'Italia
Jin Li, HKU Business School
Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
4:00 pm

Mismatch of Talent - Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University
Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University
Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Children
8:30 am

The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Jenny Shen, Princeton University
Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER
9:20 am

Holding out for Mr Right: Women’s Income, Marital Status and Child Well-Being

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs

Jonathan M.V. Davis, University of Oregon
Sara Heller, University of Michigan and NBER
11:20 am

When Dad Stays Home: Paternity Leave and Maternal Health

Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
Authors will have 45 minutes and discussants will have 15 minutes
1:10 pm

Job Mobility Networks and Endogenous Labor Markets (slides)

Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin

Discussant:
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (slides)
2:10 pm

Leave-Out Estimation of Variance Components (slides)

Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Raffaele D. Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER
Mikkel Soelvsten

Discussant:
Anna Mikusheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

A Structural Model of Homophily and Clustering in Social Networks (slides)

Angelo Mele, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant:
Elie Tamer, Harvard University
4:30 pm

Identification and Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression Model using Network Data (slides)

Eric J. Auerbach, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Christopher R. Walters, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Crime
8:30 am

Credit-Driven Crime Cycles: The Connection Between Incarceration and Access to Credit

Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego
9:30 am

How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?

Alicia S. Modestino, Northeastern University
10:30 am

Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation

Anna Bindler, DIW Berlin
Nadine Ketel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:30 am
Adjourn (Crime continues)