Monday, July 26
11:00 am

The Misallocation of Women’s Talent Across Countries (slides)

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Virginia M.L. Minni, University of Chicago
Víctor M. Quintas-Martínez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm

Private Equity and Pay Gaps Inside the Firm

Lily Fang, INSEAD
Jim Goldman, University of Warwick
Alexandra Roulet, INSEAD

Discussant:
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
1:00 pm

Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration

Alan Manning, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Michael Amior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussant:
Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:00 pm

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers (slides)

Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
3:00 pm

Collective Bargaining, Wage Floors, and the Racial Earnings Gap (slides)

Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University
Claire Montialoux, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 27
11:00 am

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018 (slides)

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Anna M. Salomons, Tilburg University
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Discussant:
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm

Firm-level Technological Change and Skill Demand

Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Balazs Murakozy, University of Liverpool
Balázs Reizer, Central European University
Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner, University of Oslo

Discussant:
Daniel Haanwinckel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
1:00 pm

Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT

Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University
Yannay Shanan, Bar Ilan University

Discussant:
John E. Humphries, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm

Wage Differentials and the Distribution of Job Amenity Values

Marshall H. Drake, Boston University
Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Neil Thakral, Brown University

Discussant:
Alex Imas, University of Chicago and NBER
3:00 pm

Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety

Massimo Anelli, Bocconi University
Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 28
11:00 am

How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income

Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Graber, Statistics Norway
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
David Novgorodsky, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm

Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility

Martit Kaila, University of Glasgow
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Krista Riukula, ETLA

Discussant:
Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
1:00 pm

Worker Beliefs about Rents and Outside Options

Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Christopher P. Roth, University of Cologne
Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Alan Manning, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2:00 pm

The Labor Market Effects of Expanding Overtime Coverage

Simon Quach, University of Southern California

Discussant:
Stephen J. Trejo, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
3:00 pm

Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up (slides)

Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University

Discussant:
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 29
Methods Session in Labor Studies
12:00 pm

Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications (slides)

Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER

Discussant:
Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
1:00 pm

(When) should you adjust Inferences for Multiple Hypothesis Testing?

Davide Viviano, Harvard University
Kaspar Wüthrich, University of Michigan
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm

Better Lee Bounds (slides)

Vira Semenova, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm

A Design-Based Perspective on Synthetic Control Methods (slides)

Lea Bottmer, Stanford University
Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER
Jann Spiess, Stanford University
Merrill Warnick, Stanford University

Discussant:
Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University
4:00 pm
Adjourn