Monday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emma Harrington, University of Virginia
Natalia Emanuel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
9:55 am

The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy (slides)

Yana Gallen, University of Chicago
Juanna Joensen, University of Chicago
Eva Rye. Johansen, Aarhus University
Gregory Veramendi, Royal Holloway University of London

Discussant:
Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:05 am

Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells

Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:55 pm

Diversifying Society’s Leaders: The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER

Discussant:
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER
1:50 pm

Hiring and the Dynamics of the Gender Gap

Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Hannah E. Illing, University of Bonn
Hanna M. Schwank, University of Bonn

Discussant:
Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

How can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University
Lena E. Hensvik, Uppsala University
Roland Rathelot, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and CREST

Discussant:
Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School (slides)
3:55 pm

Job Transitions and Employee Earnings After Acquisitions: Linking Corporate and Worker Outcomes

Terry Moon, University of British Columbia
David Arnold, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Kevin S. Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER
Amirhossein Tavakoli, University of British Columbia

Discussant:
José A. Azar, IESE Business School
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Lea Nassal, University of Warwick
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Marie Paul, University of Duisburg-Essen
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER
Elin Sundberg, Uppsala University

Discussant:
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
9:55 am

LinkedOut! Discrimination in Job Network Formation

Yulia Evsyukova, University of Mannheim
Wladislaw Mill, University of Mannheim
Felix Rusche, University of Mannheim

Discussant:
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am

The Political Economy of Innovation in the Industrial Revolution: Labor Market Conflict and Technical Change

Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics
Jens Aurich, IISG

Discussant:
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:55 pm

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER
1:50 pm

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin (slides)

Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
Pawel M. Krolikowski, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Discussant:
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (slides)
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

Eliana Carranza, The World Bank
Aletheia Donald, The World Bank
Florian Grosset, CREST - ENSAE Paris
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:55 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

The Limited Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection (slides)

Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David G. Seim, Stockholm University
9:15 am
Break
9:30 am

The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux

Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Danielle Sandler, U.S. Census Bureau
10:15 am

Unemployment Insurance Incentives of Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Workers

Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
11:00 am
Break
11:25 am

Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability

Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Jakob Munch, University of Copenhagen
Pernille Plato, University of Copenhagen
12:10 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Afternoon joint with Education
1:20 pm

Screening with Multitasking: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Teacher Tenure Reform

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Isaac M. Opper, RAND Corporation
2:10 pm

Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes
Catherine Rodriguez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Luis E. Alvarez, Departamento Nacional de Planeación
3:00 pm
Break
3:20 pm

Social Interactions and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles (slides)

Christopher Campos, University of Chicago and NBER
4:10 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias

Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell University and NBER
Diag Davenport, Princeton University
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:50 am

Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion

Victoria Angelova, Harvard University
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago and NBER
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am

On the Fairness of Machine-Assisted Human Decisions: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Talia Gillis, Columbia University
Bryce McLaughlin, Stanford University
Jann Spiess, Stanford University

Discussant:
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am

Decomposing Changes in the Gender Wage Gap over Worker Careers (slides)

Keyon Vafa, Harvard University
David M. Blei, Columbia University
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm

Bargaining in the Labor Market

Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
2:00 pm

An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance

Jonathan M.V. Davis, University of Oregon
Kyle Greenberg, United States Military Academy at West Point and NBER
Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
2:45 pm

Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control

Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt
3:25 pm
Adjourn