SI 2018 Personnel Economics

Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw, Organizers

July 25-26, 2018

Skyline Rooms

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 25
12:00 n
Lunch
Today's Sessions will be joint with Labor Group in Ballroom
1:10 pm
Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
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?
2:50 pm
Break
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
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
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:10 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:40 am
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Dan Wang, Columbia University

Agency and Homophily: Evidence from Software Engineers
9:20 am
Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Derek Messacar, Memorial University

Transparency Laws and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Canada
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Nadav Klein, University of Chicago
Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor, Inc.
Morgan Smart, Facebook

Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
10:55 am
Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Kimberley Geissler, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks
11:35 am
Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Akhmed Umyarov

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession
1:40 pm
Break
1:50 pm
Alicia S. Modestino, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University
Joshua Ballance, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?
2:20 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Katharina M. Janke, Lancaster University
Carol Propper, Imperial College London
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
3:20 pm
Adjourn