SI 2022 Personnel Economics
Organized by Mitchell Hoffman, Kathryn L. Shaw, and Raffaella Sadun
July 27-28, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142 and zoom.us
Wednesday, July 27
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm

Managers and Productivity in Retail

Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Alexandre B. Sollaci, International Monetary Fund
1:20 pm

The Value of Managers

Ann P. Bartel, Columbia University and NBER
James M. Jedras, Stanford University
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
1:55 pm
Break
2:05 pm

Violence Against Women at Work

Abi Adams, University of Oxford
Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California and NBER
Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
2:40 pm

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Ada Gonzalez-Torres, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence

Daniel Hedblom, The University of Chicago
Brent R. Hickman, Washington University in St. Louis
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
4:05 pm

Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT

Silvia F. Castro, INSEAD
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD
4:40 pm

Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

Jason A. Sockin, Cornell University
5:15 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner in Honor of Edward Lazear (Room Charles AB)
Thursday, July 28
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am

Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency

Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Zhenda Yin, Peking University
9:50 am

Knowledge Spillover, Tournaments and Individual Careers

Christian Dustmann, University College London
Thomas Cornelissen, University of Essex
Uta Schönberg, University College London
10:25 am
Break
10:40 am

Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead to Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process

Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Aarhus University
Colleen Flaherty Manchester , University of Minnesota
11:15 am

Capital Income as a Share of Compensation (slides)

Joseph R. Blasi, Rutgers University
Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University and NBER
11:50 am

Should Workplace Programs be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship

Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, Northeastern University
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
12:25 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Labor Studies (Ballroom B)
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