Wednesday, July 24

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Training Within Firms

Brayan S. Diaz, Harvard University
Andrea Neyra Nazarrett, Harvard University
Julian Ramirez Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University

9:45 am

Reputational Concerns and Advice-Seeking at Work

Lea Heursen, Humboldt University Berlin
Svenja Friess, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Marina Chugunova, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

10:25 am

Break

10:45 am

Dating and Breaking Up with the Boss: Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers

David MacDonald, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Jerry Montonen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California

11:30 am

Value Dissonance at Work

Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University

12:15 pm

Lunch

Joint paper with Gender in the Economy

1:30 pm

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies (slides)

Julian Costas-Fernandez, University College London
Sebastian Findeisen, University of Konstanz
Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London
Uta Schönberg, University College London

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Reveal or Conceal? Employer Learning in the Labor Market for Computer Scientists

Alice H. Wu, UW Madison

3:10 pm

Break

3:25 pm

The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector: Evidence from Higher Education

Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Derek Messacar, Memorial University

4:10 pm

How Do Firms Respond to Unions?

Samuel Dodini, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics

4:50 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Group Dinner, Helmand Restaurant, 143 First St, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 25

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Test-Optional Admissions

Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago
Navin Kartik, Columbia University

9:45 am

Stakes and Signals: An Empirical Investigation of Muddled Information in Standardized Testing

German J. Reyes, Middlebury College
Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER
Ruqing Xu, Cornell University

10:25 am

Break

10:45 am

Personal Connections and Hiring Decisions in the Public Sector

Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University
Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University

11:30 am

Price Discovery in Labor Markets: Why Do Firms Say They Cannot Find Workers?

Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame

12:10 pm

Lunch

Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A

1:10 pm

Meaning at Work

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

1:55 pm

The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads

Richard Audoly, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Manudeep Bhuller, University of Oslo
Tore Adam Reiremo, University of Oslo

2:40 pm

Adjourn