SI 2015 Personnel Economics

Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and David Card, Organizers

July 22-23, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 22
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
Costas Cavounidis, University of Warwick
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Michael J. Boehm, TU Dortmund University
Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics
Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics

“Since you’re so rich, you must be really smart”: Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
3:30 pm
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
8:45 am
Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER

Teachers Pay For Performance in the Long-Run: Effects on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood
9:30 am
Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities
John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Metcalfe, University of Southern California and NBER

Captains, Carbon, and Charity: A Field Experiment on the Impacts of Information, Targets, and Altruistic Incentives on Airline Pilot Behavior
10:30 am
10:30 am
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discretion in Hiring
11:15 am
11:15 am
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics

Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection and Performance in Public Services Delivery.
1:00 pm
Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER

Do Good Promotion Tournaments Make Bad Managers? Evidence of the Peter Principle in Sales
2:00 pm
Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

Persistently Inefficient? The Common-Agency Problem and Organizational Fragmentation in the US Healthcare System
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Dylan B. Minor, University of California at Los Angeles

Toxic Workers