Monday, July 22
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement (slides)

Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:15 am

Labor in the Boardroom (slides)

Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries

Masao Fukui, Boston University
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:05 am

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

Criminal Justice in the US and Economic Inequality

Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau
1:45 pm

Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study

Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell University and NBER
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Gender Differences in Job Search:Trading off Commute against Wage

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University
Roland Rathelot, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and CREST
Alexandra Roulet, INSEAD
3:35 pm

Elite Schools and Opting-In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes

Suqin Ge, Virginia Tech
Elliott W. Isaac, Tulane University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
5:05 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle

Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
9:15 am

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany

Christian Dustmann, University College London
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Uta Schönberg, University College London
Matthias Umkehrer, IAB Germany
Philipp vom Berge, IAB Germany
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays (slides)

Isabel Z. Martinez, ETH Zurich
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Siegenthaler, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
10:55 am

Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland

Jósef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University
11:30 am

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program

Arezou Zaresani, University of Sydney
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Debatable

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Philip A. Luck, University of Colorado Denver
1:45 pm

Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility

Kevin Rinz, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax Returns

Brett Collins, Internal Revenue Service
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Mark Payne, Internal Revenue Service
3:35 pm

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Multi-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial

Sheena McConnell, Mathematica Policy Research
Peter Z. Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research
Dana E. Rotz, Mathematica Policy Research
Kenneth N. Fortson, Princeton University
Paul J. Burkander, Mathematica Policy Research
Annalisa Mastri, Mathematica Policy Research
4:20 pm

College Aid, College Completion, and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Trial

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sally Hudson, University of Virginia
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
5:05 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Education
8:30 am

You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the New GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings

Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Laura Kawano, University of Michigan
Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bill Skimmyhorn, College of William and Mary
Michael Stevens, Department of the Treasury
9:20 am

Affirmative Action and Student Effort (slides)

Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Human Capital Depreciation

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge
11:20 am

Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America

Lucas C. Coffman, Harvard University
John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm

Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals

Jonas Hjort, University College London
Xuan Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER
2:00 pm

What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Voice at Work

Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
3:50 pm

Workplace Knowledge Flows

Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
4:35 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning Methods Session in Labor Studies
8:30 am

Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Kaspar Wüthrich, University of Michigan

Discussant:
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:20 am

Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference

Michael D. Gechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cyrus Samii, New York University
Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Noncompliance as a Rational Choice: A Framework that Exploits Compromises in Social Experiments to Identify Causal Effects.

Rodrigo Pinto, University of California at Los Angeles

Discussant:
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:20 am

Experiment-as-Market: Incorporating Welfare into Randomized Controlled Trials

Yusuke Narita, Yale University

Discussant:
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Children
1:05 pm

The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height

Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Kirsten Cornelson, University of Notre Dame
1:50 pm

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin D. Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
2:35 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Jamein P. Cunningham, University of Texas at Austin
3:35 pm

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States (slides)

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Victoria R. Mooers, Columbia University
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau
4:20 pm
Adjourn