SI 2018 Personnel Economics
Organized by Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw
July 25-26, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 25
12:00 n
Lunch
Today's Sessions will be joint with Labor Group in Ballroom
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, Goethe University Frankfurt
2:50 pm
Break
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
8:10 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:40 am

Agency and Homophily: Evidence from Software Engineers

Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Dan Wang, Columbia University
9:20 am

Transparency Laws and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Canada

Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Derek Messacar, Memorial University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Nadav Klein, University of Chicago
Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor, Inc.
Morgan Smart, Facebook
10:55 am

Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks

Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Kimberley Geissler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER
11:35 am

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Akhmed Umyarov
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession

Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
1:50 pm

Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?

Alicia S. Modestino, Northeastern University
Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University
Joshua Ballance, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
2:20 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

Katharina M. Janke, Lancaster University
Carol Propper, Imperial College London
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
3:20 pm
Adjourn