SI 2025 Personnel Economics
Organized by Mitchell Hoffman and Fabian Lange
July 23-24, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 23
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
MORNING JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES IN BALLROOM A
8:45 am

Pushing the Envelope: Effects of Salary Negotiations

Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
9:30 am

Permanence and Performance: The Incentive Effect of Tenure on Worker Productivity

Zihan Hu, Singapore Management University
Hyejin Ku, University College London
Xuan Wang, Peking University
Xinjue Yao, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
10:15 am
Break
10:35 am

Interviews

Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Soumitra Shukla, Harvard Business School & The Burning Glass Institute
Jason A. Sockin, Cornell University
11:20 am

Money or Monitoring: Evidence on Improving Worker Effort

Jing Cai, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Sai Luo, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:05 pm
Lunch
PERSONNEL SESSION
1:00 pm

Salary Caps for Public Managers and Public Sector Performance

Edoardo Di Porto, University of Naples Federico II
Christian Dustmann, University College London
Chiara Giannetto, University College London
Lorenzo Incoronato, University of Naples Federico II
1:45 pm

Public Sector Salaries and the Quality of Governance: Evidence from Frontline Bureaucrats in India

Siddharth E. George, National University of Singapore
Martin Mattsson, National University of Singapore
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector

Alessandra Fenizia, The George Washington University and NBER
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
3:45 pm

Small-Scale Mentoring, Large-Scale Innovation: Evidence from a Superstar Firm

Colleen Chien, University of California, Berkeley
Jillian Grennan, Emory University
Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
4:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Personnel Dinner - Location TBA
Thursday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses

Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Brandon Freiberg, Columbia University
Evan P. Starr, University of Maryland, College Park
9:45 am

How to Attract Talent? Field-Experimental Evidence on Emphasizing Flexibility and Career Opportunities in Job Advertisements

Larissa Fuchs, University of Bonn
Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne
Pia Pinger, University of Cologne
Max Thon, University of Zurich
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am

Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit

Manisha Jain, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California
11:35 am

The Part-time Penalty: Evidence from Denmark

Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Louis Junker-Jensen, Aarhus University
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory

Yuen Ho, University of California, Berkeley
Yihong Huang, Harvard University
2:00 pm

Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organisations

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Diego Battiston, University of Edinburgh
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Katalin Szemeredi, Corvinus University
2:45 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Poaching, Raids, and Managerial Compensation

Yi Chen, Cornell University
Fabiano Dal-Ri, Cornell University
Thomas Jungbauer, Cornell University
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
3:45 pm

An Anatomy of Managerial Attention: Evidence From Retail

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parker Howell, University of Michigan
Andrea Neyra Nazarrett, Harvard University
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn