SI 2019 Labor Studies

David Autor and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

July 22-25, 2019

Ballroom A

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 22
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement (slides)
9:15 am

Labor in the Boardroom (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries
11:05 am

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

Criminal Justice in the US and Economic Inequality
1:45 pm

Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Gender Differences in Job Search:Trading off Commute against Wage
3:35 pm

Elite Schools and Opting-In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes
5:05 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am
Ballroom

Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle
9:15 am
Ballroom

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Ballroom

Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays (slides)
10:55 am
Ballroom

Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland
11:30 am
Ballroom

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Debatable
1:45 pm

Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax Returns
3:35 pm

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Multi-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial
4:20 pm

College Aid, College Completion, and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Trial
5:05 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Education
8:30 am
Ballroom A

You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the New GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings
9:20 am
Ballroom A

Affirmative Action and Student Effort (slides)
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Ballroom A

Human Capital Depreciation
11:20 am
Ballroom A

Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm
Ballroom

Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
2:00 pm
Ballroom

What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
2:45 pm
Break
3:05 pm
Ballroom

Voice at Work
3:50 pm
Ballroom

Workplace Knowledge Flows
4:35 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning Methods Session in Labor Studies
8:30 am

Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
Discussant: Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:20 am

Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference
Discussant: Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Noncompliance as a Rational Choice: A Framework that Exploits Compromises in Social Experiments to Identify Causal Effects.
Discussant: Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:20 am

Experiment-as-Market: Incorporating Welfare into Randomized Controlled Trials
Discussant: Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Children
1:05 pm
Ballroom

The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
1:50 pm
Ballroom

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
2:35 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Ballroom

Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services
3:35 pm
Ballroom

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States (slides)
4:20 pm
Adjourn