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
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1:45 pm |
Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 5:05 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Public Economics | ||||
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8:30 am
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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 |
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9:15 am
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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 |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
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10:20 am
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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 |
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10:55 am
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Jósef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland |
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11:30 am
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Arezou Zaresani, University of Sydney Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program |
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| 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 |
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| 1:45 pm |
Kevin Rinz, Washington Center for Equitable Growth Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 5:05 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 24 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Education | ||||
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8:30 am
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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 |
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9:20 am
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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 |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
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10:30 am
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Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER Human Capital Depreciation |
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11:20 am
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Lucas C. Coffman, Harvard University John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics | ||||
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1:15 pm
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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 |
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2:00 pm
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Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study |
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |||
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3:05 pm
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Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Voice at Work |
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3:50 pm
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Jason Sandvik, Tulane University Richard Saouma, Michigan State University Nathan Seegert, University of Utah Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER Workplace Knowledge Flows |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 11:20 am |
Yusuke Narita, Yale University Experiment-as-Market: Incorporating Welfare into Randomized Controlled Trials
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Children | ||||
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1:05 pm
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Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER Kirsten Cornelson, University of Notre Dame The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height |
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1:50 pm
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Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Benjamin D. Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |||
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2:50 pm
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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 |
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3:35 pm
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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 |
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| 4:20 pm | Adjourn | |||