Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

February 22, 2019

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Yellen Conference Room, 1st Floor, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Thursday, February 21
6:30 pm	Dinner Perbacco Restaurant 230 California Street San Francisco, CA
Friday, February 22
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER Kadeem L. Noray, Harvard University STEM Careers and Technological Change
9:15 am	Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University and NBER Emily C. Leslie, Brigham Young University Judging Judge Fixed Effects: Testing the Identifying Assumptions in Judge Fixed-Effects Designs
9:55 am	Break
10:10 am	Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
10:55 am	Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Immigrants’ Earnings Growth and Return Migration from the U.S.: Examining their Determinants using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
11:35 am	Lunch- Market Street Dining Room, 4th Floor
12:35 pm	Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
1:20 pm	Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER Hamish Low, University of Oxford Disability Insurance and Gender Differences: Evidence from Merged Survey-Administrative Data
2:00 pm	Break
2:10 pm	Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jennifer Peck, Swarthmore College Mehmet Seflek, University of California at Berkeley Big Push Policies and Firm-Level Barriers to Employing Women: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
2:55 pm	François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil
3:35 pm	Adjourn