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
Summer Institute 2018 master schedule
| Monday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER Demographics and Automation |
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| 9:20 am |
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Geography of Consumption Inequality |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Doruk Cengiz, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER Attila S. Lindner, University College London Ben Zipperer, Economic Policy Institute The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator |
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| 11:20 am |
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Alessandra L. Gonzalez, University of Chicago David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia |
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| 1:50 pm |
Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Colin Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania An Audit Alternative: Measuring Employer Preferences and Beliefs without Deception |
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| 2:40 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER Caue de Castro Dobbin, Georgetown University Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER Border Walls |
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| 3:50 pm |
Joan Monras, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Javier Vazquez, University of Barcelona Ferran Elias Moreno, Columbia University Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants |
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| 4:40 pm |
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods |
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 24 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Public Economics | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective |
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| 9:20 am |
Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER Winnie L. van Dijk, Yale University and NBER Nicholas S. Mader, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Simon Freyaldenhoven, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Christian Hansen, University of Chicago Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER Pre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design |
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| 11:20 am |
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil David Schoenherr, Princeton University Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:10 pm |
Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER Dan Herbst, University of Arizona Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data |
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| 2:00 pm |
Timothy N. Bond, Purdue University Mary K. Batistich, University of Notre Dame Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s |
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:10 pm |
Edward P. Lazear, Stanford University Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful than Others? |
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| 4:00 pm |
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service Increased Concentration of Occupations, Outsourcing, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States |
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| 4:50 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 25 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Education | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University and NBER Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Yusuke Narita, Yale University Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design |
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| 9:20 am |
Charlie Eaton, University of California, Merced Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Darwin Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong Dong Lou, London School of Economics Abhiroop Mukherjee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Effect of Superstar Firms on College Major Choice |
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| 11:20 am |
Owen Thompson, Williams College and NBER School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Personnel | ||||
| 1:10 pm |
Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity |
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| 2:00 pm |
Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? |
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| 3:10 pm |
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER Giulia Bovini, Banca d'Italia Jin Li, University of Hong Kong Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University Chains of Opportunity Revisited |
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| 4:00 pm |
Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University Mismatch of Talent - Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility |
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| 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 |
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore Jenny Shen, Princeton University Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? |
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| 9:20 am |
Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Holding out for Mr Right: Women’s Income, Marital Status and Child Well-Being |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Jonathan M.V. Davis, University of Oregon Sara Heller, University of Michigan and NBER Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs |
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| 11:20 am |
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER When Dad Stays Home: Paternity Leave and Maternal Health |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| Authors will have 45 minutes and discussants will have 15 minutes | ||||
| 1:10 pm |
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin Job Mobility Networks and Endogenous Labor Markets
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| 2:10 pm |
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Raffaele D. Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER Mikkel Soelvsten Leave-Out Estimation of Variance Components
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| 3:10 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Angelo Mele, Johns Hopkins University A Structural Model of Homophily and Clustering in Social Networks
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| 4:30 pm |
Eric J. Auerbach, Northwestern University Identification and Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression Model using Network Data
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, July 27 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Crime | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego Credit-Driven Crime Cycles: The Connection Between Incarceration and Access to Credit |
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| 9:30 am |
Alicia S. Modestino, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom? |
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| 10:30 am |
Anna Bindler, University of Cologne Nadine Ketel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation |
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| 11:30 am | Adjourn (Crime continues) | |||