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	An Analysis of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination
9:20 am	Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Who Profits from Patents? Rent-sharing at Innovative Firms
11:20 am	Rent Sharing, Earnings Dynamics and Transmission of Firm and Market Level Shocks
12:10 pm Ballroom B	Lunch
1:00 pm	Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
1:50 pm	Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men
3:50 pm	Why Are Fewer Workers Earning Middle Wages and Is It a Bad Thing?
4:40 pm	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	How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel
9:20 am	Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Firm Behavior and Payroll Taxes: Evidence from a Young Workers Tax Cut in Sweden
11:20 am	What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes.
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm	Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families
2:00 pm	Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses
4:00 pm	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	Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study
9:20 am	'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Next Please! Estimating the Effect of Treatments Allocated By Randomized Waiting Lists
11:20 am	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	Lateral Moves, Promotions, and Task-Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence
2:00 pm	Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	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	On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes: An Examination of Random Shocks to Children in Military Families
9:20 am	Sibling Spillovers
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
11:20 am	Long-term Effects of Head Start: New Evidence from the PSID
12:10 am	Lunch
1:10 pm	The Risk of Machine Learning
2:00 pm	Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models
2:50 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
4:00 pm	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	Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
9:30 am	The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing
12:00 noon	Lunch and return to the Longfellow Room for the afternoon Crime session