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 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 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.