SI 2015 Labor Studies

David Card, Caroline M. Hoxby, Amy Finkelstein, Edward P. Lazear, and Kathryn L. Shaw, Organizers

July 20-24, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 20
8:30 am
8:30 am
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Patricia Cortes, Boston University and NBER
Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore

Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Market Penalty for Skilled Women
9:20 am
9:20 am
Carlos Dobkin, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Raymond Kluender, Harvard University
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions for Individuals with Health Insurance
10:30 am
10:30 am
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start
11:20 am
11:20 am
Deborah Goldschmidt, Boston University
Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and NBER

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
2:05 pm
Ernesto Villanueva, Bank of Spain
Luis Migue. Diez Catalan

Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession: Evidence from Spain
3:15 pm
Joshua K. Montes, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Gabriel Ehrlich, University of Michigan

Wage Rigidity and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Data
4:15 pm
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics
Alexander M. Bell, Georgia State University
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury

The Lifecycle of Inventors
Tuesday, July 21
10:30
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development
11:20 am
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ugo Troiano, University of California, Riverside

Shaming Tax Delinquents: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL

Homeownership and the American Dream - An Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility Effects
2:05 pm
2:05 pm
Fredrik Andersson, U.S. Department of the Treasury
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Mark J. Kutzbach, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Giordano E. Palloni, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Henry Pollakowski, Harvard University
Daniel Weinberg, DHW Consulting

Childhood Housing and Adult Earnings: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing
3:15 pm
3:15 pm
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Frederic Panier, Stanford University
Ilan Tojerow, Free University of Brussels

Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults
4:15 pm
Michael Amior, Hebrew University
Alan Manning, London School of Economics

The Persistence of Local Joblessness
Wednesday, July 22
3:30 pm
Orie Shelef, University of Utah
Amy Nguyen-Chyung, University of Michigan

Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments
Thursday, July 23
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Leveraging Lotteries For School Value-added: Testing and Estimation
2:40 pm
2:40 pm
Joseph G. Altonji, Yale University and NBER
Richard K. Mansfield, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER

NBER Summer Institute Slides - Group Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: The Case of School and Neighborhood Effects
3:50 pm
3:50 pm
Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
Elena Manresa, New York University
Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER

A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer-Employee Data