Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

November 9, 2018

The Gleacher Center, Room 600, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL

Thursday, November 8
6:30 pm	Dinner Sheraton Grand Chicago 301 E North Water Street Chicago, IL Dinner Talk: Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
Friday, November 9
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Nandita Krishnaswamy, Columbia University Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply
9:15 am	John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER Matthew J. Wiswall, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER Labor Market Search With Imperfect Information and Learning
9:55 am	Break
10:10 am	Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago Kerstin Holzheu, Sciences Po Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER Elena Manresa, New York University Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University and NBER How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?
10:55 am	Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs
11:35 am	Lunch- 250 Lounge (2nd Floor)
12:35 pm	Zoë B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
1:20 pm	Benjamin G. Hyman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance
2:00 pm	Break
2:10 pm	Janna Johnson, University of Minnesota Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration? (slides)
2:55 pm	John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Demand for Leisure and Flexible Work Arrangements
3:35 pm	Adjourn