SI 2017 Labor Studies

David Card and Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizers

July 24-28, 2017

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 24
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Harvard University Ashley C. Craig, Australian National University An Analysis of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination
9:20 am	Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Nicholas Turner, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Who Profits from Patents? Rent-sharing at Innovative Firms
11:20 am	Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University and NBER Rent Sharing, Earnings Dynamics and Transmission of Firm and Market Level Shocks
12:10 pm Ballroom B	Lunch
1:00 pm	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
1:50 pm	Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Dorn, University of Zurich Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men
3:50 pm	Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER Ryan D. Nunn, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Why Are Fewer Workers Earning Middle Wages and Is It a Bad Thing?
4:40 pm	Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University Orley C. Ashenfelter, Princeton University and NBER Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am	Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel
9:20 am	Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER David G. Seim, Stockholm University Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Firm Behavior and Payroll Taxes: Evidence from a Young Workers Tax Cut in Sweden
11:20 am	Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Dorian Carloni, Congressional Budget Office Jarkko Harju, Tampere University and FIT Tuomas Kosonen, VATT Institute for Economic Research What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes.
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm	Lars H. Andersen, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit Christian Dustmann, University College London Rasmus Landersø, Rockwool Foundation Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families
2:00 pm	Michael Clemens, George Mason University Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER Hannah M. Postel, Duke University Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses
4:00 pm	Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan Hall, Uber Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver's Eye View
4:50 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	Methods Lecture, Jon Schwabish, Urban Institute Improving Data Presentation Ballroom B
Wednesday, July 26
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Economics of Education
8:30 am	Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study
9:20 am	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Clement de Chaisemartin, University of California, Santa Barbara Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics Next Please! Estimating the Effect of Treatments Allocated By Randomized Waiting Lists
11:20 am	Elizabeth Ananat, Columbia University and NBER Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University Effects of Increased Income on Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from an Emerging Natural Experiment
12:10 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon joint with Personnel
1:00 pm	Xin Jin, University of South Florida Michael Waldman, Cornell University Lateral Moves, Promotions, and Task-Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence
2:00 pm	Jonathan Hall, Uber Jason Hicks, University of Minnesota Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Hyejin Ku, University College London Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner Honoring David Card MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, 7th floor
Thursday, July 27
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Children
8:30 am	Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER Laura Kawano, University of Michigan Bill Skimmyhorn, College of William and Mary Michael Stevens, Department of the Treasury On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes: An Examination of Random Shocks to Children in Military Families
9:20 am	Sandra Black, Columbia University and NBER Sanni N. Breining, Aarhus University David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University and NBER Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER Helena Skyt Nielsen, Aarhus University Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida Marianne Simonsen, Aarhus University Sibling Spillovers
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Sarah Bana, Stanford University Kelly Bedard, University of California at Santa Barbara Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
11:20 am	Douglas L. Miller, Cornell University and NBER Na'ama Shenhav, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Michel Grosz, U.S. Department of Education Long-term Effects of Head Start: New Evidence from the PSID
12:10 am	Lunch
1:10 pm	Alberto Abadie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maximilian Kasy, University of Oxford The Risk of Machine Learning
2:00 pm	Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Nikolay Doudchenko, Stanford University Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER Matt Taddy, Amazon Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
4:00 pm	Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Denis Chetverikov, University of California at Los Angeles Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Christian Hansen, University of Chicago Whitney K. Newey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Structural Parameters
4:50 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 28
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Crime
8:30 am	Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER Rodrigo R. Soares, Insper Gabriel Ulyssea, University College London Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
9:30 am	Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER Hans Grönqvist, Linnaeus University Susan Niknami, Stockholm University Mårten Palme, Stockholm University Mikael Priks, Stockholm University The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Felipe M. Gonçalves Steven Mello, Dartmouth College and NBER A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing
12:00 noon	Lunch and return to the Longfellow Room for the afternoon Crime session