Labor Studies Program Meeting

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

March 22, 2024

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois Rooms 1-2, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL and Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 22
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

A Discrimination Report Card
(This paper will not be available on YouTube)
9:40 am
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Ananya Kotia, London School of Economics
Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Christian Moser, Columbia University and NBER
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER

Meritocracy across Countries
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Technology and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
11:10 am
Andrew S. Hanks, Ohio State University
Shengjun Jiang, Wuhan University
Xuechao Qian, University of California, Irvine
Bo Wang, Nankai University
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER

Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
11:45 am
Lunch - LaSalle Dining Room
12:50 pm
Chantal Pezold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Patrick Nuess, Kiel University

Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
1:30 pm
Abi Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Economic Costs of Rape
2:05 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Naser Amanzadeh, University of California, Berkeley
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
3:00 pm
Elisa Jácome, Northwestern University and NBER
Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety
3:35 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Agostina Brinatti, University of Michigan
Mingyu Chen, IZA Institute of Labour Economics
Parag Mahajan, University of Delaware
Nicolas Morales, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Kevin Y. Shih, University of California, Riverside

The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery
4:20 pm
Adjourn