Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

November 8, 2024

Intercontinental San Francisco, Intercon Room, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 8
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Kyle Hancock, Princeton University
Jing Wu, Princeton University

The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
9:40 am
Aidan Toner-Rodgers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

Assortative Matching and Wages: The Role of Selection
11:20 am
Jaime Arellano-Bover, Yale University
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Salvatore Lattanzio, Bank of Italy
Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
12:00 pm
Lunch
Lighting Talk
12:02 pm
The following paper will be available to in-person participants only
1:00 pm
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Elira Kuka, The George Washington University and NBER
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic
1:20 pm
Arash Nekoei, Stockholm University
Josef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University
Dominik R. Wehr, Stockholm School of Economics

The Economic Burden of Burnout
2:00 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Daniel Herbst, University of Arizona

Asymmetric Information in Labor Contracts: Evidence from an Online Experiment
Lighting Talk
3:00 pm
Thomas E. Helgerman, University of Minnesota

Health Womanpower: The Role of Federal Policy in Women's Entry into Medicine
Lighting Talk
3:20 pm
Joshua T. Dean, University of Chicago
Christine L. Exley, University of Michigan
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and NBER
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER

Measuring Gender Norms for Men and Women, and their Implications
3:40 pm
Adjourn