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
Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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, LMU Munich
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, University of Utah
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, LMU 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