SI 2020 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Tavneet Suri, and Christopher Woodruff
July 15, 2020
on Zoom.us
Wednesday, July 15
11:00 am
Introduction by Organizers
11:05 am

Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Koelle, University of Oxford
Simon Quinn, Imperial College London
11:35 am
Break
11:40 am

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing

Jing Cai, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:10 pm
Break
12:15 pm

Opportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Advanced Labor Market Experience

Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, University of California, Berkeley
Hamilton Taveras, Dirección General de Impuestos Internos
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Ranking Effects on Effort, Cooperation, and Firm Performance (slides)

Julia Seither, Universidad del Rosario
1:20 pm
Break
1:25 pm

Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization (slides)

Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Atsushi Ohyama, Hitotsubashi University
Tetsuji Okazaki, Meiji Gakuin University
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
1:55 pm
Closing comments by Organizers
2:00 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT: 20 minutes presentation, 10 discussion.