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
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement (slides)
9:15 am
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Labor in the Boardroom (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Masao Fukui, Boston University
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries
11:05 am
Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau

Criminal Justice in the US and Economic Inequality
1:45 pm
Amanda Y. Agan, Rutgers University and NBER
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University

Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University
Roland Rathelot, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and CREST
Alexandra Roulet, INSEAD

Gender Differences in Job Search:Trading off Commute against Wage
3:35 pm
Suqin Ge, Virginia Tech
Elliott W. Isaac, Tulane University
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER

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
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau

Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle
9:15 am
Ballroom
Christian Dustmann, University College London
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Uta Schönberg, University College London
Matthias Umkehrer, IAB Germany
Philipp vom Berge, IAB Germany

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Ballroom
Isabel Z. Martinez, ETH Zurich
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Siegenthaler, KOF Swiss Economic Institute

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

Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland
11:30 am
Ballroom
Arezou Zaresani, University of Sydney

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Philip A. Luck, University of Colorado Denver

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

Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Brett Collins, Internal Revenue Service
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Mark Payne, Internal Revenue Service

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax Returns
3:35 pm
Sheena McConnell, Mathematica Policy Research
Peter Z. Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research
Dana E. Rotz, Mathematica Policy Research
Kenneth N. Fortson, Princeton University
Paul J. Burkander, Mathematica Policy Research
Annalisa Mastri, Mathematica Policy Research

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Multi-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial
4:20 pm
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sally Hudson, University of Virginia
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER

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
Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Laura Kawano, University of Michigan
Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bill Skimmyhorn, College of William and Mary
Michael Stevens, Department of the Treasury

You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the New GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings
9:20 am
Ballroom A
Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary

Affirmative Action and Student Effort (slides)
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Ballroom A
Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER

Human Capital Depreciation
11:20 am
Ballroom A
Lucas C. Coffman, Harvard University
John J. Conlon, Harvard University
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm
Ballroom
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Xuan Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia and NBER

Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
2:00 pm
Ballroom
Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
2:45 pm
Break
3:05 pm
Ballroom
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Voice at Work
3:50 pm
Ballroom
Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

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
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Kaspar Wüthrich, University of California at San Diego

Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
Discussant: Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:20 am
Michael D. Gechter, Pennsylvania State University
Cyrus Samii, New York University
Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER

Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference
Discussant: Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Rodrigo Pinto, University of California at Los Angeles

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
Yusuke Narita, Yale University

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
Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Kirsten Cornelson, University of Notre Dame

The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
1:50 pm
Ballroom
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin D. Sprung-Keyser, Harvard University

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
2:35 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Ballroom
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Jamein P. Cunningham, University of Texas at Austin

Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services
3:35 pm
Ballroom
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Victoria R. Mooers, Columbia University
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau

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