SI 2018 Labor Studies

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

July 23-27, 2018

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Demographics and Automation
9:20 am

The Geography of Consumption Inequality
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator
11:20 am

Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia
1:50 pm

An Audit Alternative: Measuring Employer Preferences and Beliefs without Deception (slides)
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Border Walls
3:50 pm

Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants
4:40 pm

Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (slides)
9:20 am

Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Pre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design
11:20 am

Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:10 pm

Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data
2:00 pm

Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others? (slides)
4:00 pm

Increased Concentration of Occupations, Outsourcing, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Education
8:30 am

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
9:20 am

When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

The Effect of Superstar Firms on College Major Choice (slides)
11:20 am

School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel
1:10 pm

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
2:00 pm

What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?
3:10 pm

Chains of Opportunity Revisited
4:00 pm

Mismatch of Talent - Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Children
8:30 am

The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?
9:20 am

Holding out for Mr Right: Women’s Income, Marital Status and Child Well-Being
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs
11:20 am

When Dad Stays Home: Paternity Leave and Maternal Health
12:10 pm
Lunch
Authors will have 45 minutes and discussants will have 15 minutes
1:10 pm

Job Mobility Networks and Endogenous Labor Markets (slides)
Discussant: Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (slides)
2:10 pm

Leave-Out Estimation of Variance Components (slides)
Discussant: Anna Mikusheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

A Structural Model of Homophily and Clustering in Social Networks (slides)
Discussant: Elie Tamer, Harvard University
4:30 pm

Identification and Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression Model using Network Data (slides)
Discussant: Christopher R. Walters, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Crime
8:30 am

Credit-Driven Crime Cycles: The Connection Between Incarceration and Access to Credit
9:30 am

How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?
10:30 am

Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation
11:30 am
Adjourn (Crime continues)