SI 2026 Personnel Economics
Organized by Alan M. Benson and Mitchell Hoffman
July 28-29, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Tuesday, July 28
12:00 pm
Lunch
JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES IN BALLROOM A
1:00 pm

Internal Labor Markets and Inequality

Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
1:45 pm

Leveling Down: Competition and Discrimination in Service Markets

Kwabena B. Donkor, Stanford University
2:10 pm
Break
2:30 pm

An Experiment in Background Check Adjudication & Fair Chance Hiring

Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Emma Rackstraw, Swarthmore College
2:55 pm

Monopsony and Backloaded Compensation: Theory and Evidence from Public Accountants

Michael Rubens, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bernardo S. Silveira, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
3:40 pm
Break
4:00 pm

(Mis)perceptions of the Labor Market

Pierre Deschamps, Stockton University
Morgane Hoffmann, CREST
Morgane Laouenan, Centre d''Economie de la Sorbonne
Louis-Pierre Lepage, Stockholm University
Charles Pebereau, Malt
4:25 pm

AI-Assisted Programming and Labor Demand

Lindsey Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
5:10 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner - Batifol Restaurant, 291 Third Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, July 29
8:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am

Negotiation, Employer Demand, and Gender Disparities

Ratchanon Chotiputsilp, Rotterdam School of Management
Taeho Kim, University of Toronto
Clémentine Van Effenterre, University of Toronto
9:30 am

Gender Differences in the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Academia

Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am

Dual Career Ladders: Individual Contributors in Modern Corporate Hierarchies

Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Jiarui Cao, Northwestern University
Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, University of Melbourne
11:15 am

Making Help Visible: Experimental Evidence from a Recognition Program in the Workplace

Silvia Castro, University of Munich
Hoa Ho, University of Munich
Maren Alana Mickeler, ESSEC Business School
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Empowering Inclusive Work

Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Huilan Xu, Zhejiang University
Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University
1:45 pm

Managing Innovation in Firms

Ingrid Haegele, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Jose P. Vasquez, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Francis Wong, University of Munich
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Waiting to Decide: Revealed Uncertainty in the Emergency Department

David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:15 pm

Beyond Bonuses: the Incentive Effect of a Prosocial Initiative on Bankers

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
Matteo Fossi, University of Southern California
4:00 pm
Adjourn