
	Wednesday, July 24
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Training Within Firms Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University Brayan S. Diaz, Harvard University Andrea Neyra Nazarrett, 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 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, Harvard University
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, Norwegian School of Economics 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, Department of Economics, 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
1:20 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
2:05 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
2:50 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Abi Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
Amanda Y. Agan, Rutgers University and NBER
Josepth Altonji, Yale University and NBER
Richard Audoly, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po
Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Manudeep Bhuller, University of Oslo
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER
Marina Chugunova, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Erika Deserranno, Northwestern University
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
Samuel Dodini, Norwegian School of Economics
Natalia Emanuel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Constanca Esteves-Sorenson, University of California at Los Angeles
Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago
Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Svenja Friess, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Laura Giuliano, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Anna Gumpert, University of Tübingen
Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich
Emma Harrington, University of Virginia
Lea Heursen, Humboldt University Berlin
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER
David A. Jaeger, City University of New York
Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jacob Kohlhepp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hyejin Ku, University College London
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

Fabian Lange, McGill University and NBER
Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER
Louis-Pierre Lepage, Stockholm University
Lisa M. Lynch, Brandeis University and NBER
W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER
Rosario Macera, Universidad Catolica de Chile
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Arnaud Maurel, Duke University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University
Andrea Neyra Nazarrett, Harvard University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
M. Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University
Jörn-Steffen Pischke, London School of Economics and NBER
Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago
Carol Propper, Imperial College London
Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London
Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
German J. Reyes, Department of Economics, Middlebury College
Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER
Ian M. Schmutte, University of Georgia
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Soumitra Shukla, Federal Reserve
Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Evan P. Starr, University of Maryland
Christopher R. Taber, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University
Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Edward D. Van Wesep, University of Colorado at Boulder
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan and NBER
Alice H. Wu, Harvard University
Hugh Xiaolong Wu, Washington University in St. Louis
Ruqing Xu, Cornell University
Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University