SI 2022 Labor Studies
Organized by Amanda Y. Agan, David Autor, Ellora Derenoncourt, Peter Hull, Patrick M. Kline, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, and Zoë B. Cullen
July 25-28, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Format: 30 min authors 10 min discussion 10 min Q&A
Monday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System

Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
maxim n. massenkoff, Naval Postgraduate School

Discussant:
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
10:20 am

College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification

Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER
Aashish Mehta, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant:
Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

What’s My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Shengwu Li, Harvard University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Laura Giuliano, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition

Mons Chan, Queen's University
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Elena Mattana, Aarhus University
Ismael Mourifié, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

Discussant:
Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
2:20 pm

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Viola Corradini, Columbia University
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University and NBER
Garima Sharma, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

IV Estimation: The Strong, the Weak, and the Many Weak

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets

Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School

Discussant:
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:20 am

Gender Differences in Labor Supply:Experimental Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford

Discussant:
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

Task Requirements, Time Requirements, and the Gender Gap in Jobs and Pay

Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing

Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Carl McPherson, Wellesley College
Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

Discussant:
Jeffrey R. Kling, Congressional Budget Office
2:20 pm

Work Hours Mismatch

Marta Lachowska, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University

Discussant:
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning session joint with Public Economics
9:30 am

The Geography of Child Penalties and Gender Norms: Evidence from the United States

Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER
10:10 am

The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment

Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am

Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes

Anikó Bíró, ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
Reka Branyiczki, Central European University
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Lili Márk, Central European University
Daniel Prinz, The World Bank
11:50 am
Lunch
Afternoon session joint with Education
1:00 pm

Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Vesall Nourani, Harvard Graduate School of Education
1:50 pm

Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications (slides)

Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland, College Park
Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University and NBER
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Fork in the Road: The Economics and Neuroscience of Adolescent Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER
3:50 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 28
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Methods session hosted by Pat Kline
9:00 am

Reinforcing RCTs with Multiple Priors while Learning about External Validity

Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Demian Pouzo, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Toru Kitagawa, Brown University (slides)
9:50 am

Increasing the Uptake of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives Among Adolescents and Young Women in Cameroon: An Adaptive Experiment

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Vitor Baisi Hadad, Amazon, Inc.
Julian C. Jamison, University of Exeter
Berk Ozler, The World Bank
Luca Parisotto, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Maximilian Kasy, University of Oxford (slides)
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am

Policy Design in Experiments with Unknown Interference (slides)

Davide Viviano, Harvard University

Discussant:
Timothy Armstrong, University of Southern California (slides)
11:40 am

Synthetic Control As Online Linear Regression (slides)

Jiafeng Chen, Stanford University

Discussant:
Jann Spiess, Stanford University (slides)
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon session joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm

The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap

Ingrid Haegele, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
1:50 pm

Learning to Discriminate on the Job

Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Louis-Pierre Lepage, Stockholm University
2:25 pm

Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms

Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Frederik Plesner Lyngse, University of Copenhagen
Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
3:00 pm
Adjourn