Monday, July 20

12:00 pm

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance

David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Ben Weidmann, Harvard University

Moderator: Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER

1:00 pm

Hiring as Exploration

Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Lindsey R. Raymond, Microsoft Research
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Moderator: Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER

2:00 pm

The Central Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality

Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Moderator: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

Spillover Effects From Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages

Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Clemens Noelke, Boston University
David Weil, Brown University and NBER

Moderator: Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER

4:00 pm

New Indices of Social Capital: Measurement, Determinants, and Applications to Economic Mobility

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Robert Fluegge, Stanford University
Federico Gonzalez, Harvard University
Matthew Jacob Martin Koenen, Harvard University
Eduardo Laguna-Müggenburg, Stanford University
Wilbur Townsend, Harvard University
Ruby Zhang, Harvard University
Michael Bailey, Facebook
Pablo Barbera, Facebook
Monica Bhole, Facebook
Facebook Core Data Science Team

(this paper will not be livestreamed)

Moderator: Kerwin Charles, Yale University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 21

12:00 pm

What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Céline Antonin, Sciences Po
Simon P. Bunel, Banque de France
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Moderator: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER

1:00 pm

Electrifying? How New Technologies Impact Productivity and Jobs

Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER
José Tessada, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Moderator: Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER

2:00 pm

Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Yao Luo, University of Toronto
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Moderator: John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

3:00 pm

Local Employment and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA (slides)

Jiwon Choi, Brandeis University
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER
Gavin Wright, Stanford University

Moderator: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

4:00 pm

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era

Kyle Greenberg, West Point and NBER
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Corbin Miller, Internal Revenue Service
Richard W. Patterson, Brigham Young University

Moderator: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 22

Methods Session in Labor Studies

10:00 am

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions (slides)

David Arnold, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER

Discussant:
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER (slides)

11:00 am

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

Rachael Meager, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Michal Kolesár, Princeton University (slides)

12:00 pm

A Model of Scientific Communication (slides)

Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)

1:00 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, July 23

10:00 am

Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors

Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER
Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER

Moderator: Sandra Black, Columbia University and NBER

11:00 am

Employment Eligibility Verification Requirements and Local Labor Market Outcomes

Shalise Ayromloo, U.S. Census Bureau
Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER

Moderator: Leah Boustan, Princeton University and NBER

12:00 pm

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and NBER
Simon Trenkle, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), IAB

Moderator: Till von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

1:00 pm

Adjourn