SI 2016 Personnel Economics

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

July 27-28, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 27
1:00 pm
Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Microsoft Research
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
2:00 pm
Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
3:30 pm
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University

Human Bias and Machine Learning: Evidence from Resume Screening
Thursday, July 28
8:45 am
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
9:30 am
Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Fabian Lange, McGill University and NBER

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
10:30 am
Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
11:15 am
Elizabeth Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Career Effects of Occupational Mobility inside Firms
1:00 pm
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Megha Patnaik, LUISS Guido Carli University
Itay Saporta Eksten, Tel Aviv University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

What Drives Differences in Management?
2:00 pm
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
3:00 pm
Adnan Khan, London School of Economics
Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers