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 |
Audits as Evidence: Experiments, Ensembles, and Enforcement |
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| 9:15 am |
Labor in the Boardroom |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:20 am |
Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries |
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| 11:05 am |
Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages |
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| 11:50 am | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Criminal Justice in the US and Economic Inequality |
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| 1:45 pm |
Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:50 pm |
Gender Differences in Job Search:Trading off Commute against Wage |
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| 3:35 pm |
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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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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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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Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays |
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10:55 am
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Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland |
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11:30 am
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Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Debatable |
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| 1:45 pm |
Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:50 pm |
Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax Returns |
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| 3:35 pm |
Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: Findings from a Nationally Representative Multi-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial |
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| 4:20 pm |
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
Ballroom A
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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
Ballroom A
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Affirmative Action and Student Effort |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
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10:30 am
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Human Capital Depreciation |
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11:20 am
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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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Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals |
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2:00 pm
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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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Voice at Work |
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3:50 pm
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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 |
Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
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| 9:20 am |
Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Noncompliance as a Rational Choice: A Framework that Exploits Compromises in Social Experiments to Identify Causal Effects.
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| 11:20 am |
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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The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height |
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1:50 pm
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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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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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The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States |
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| 4:20 pm | Adjourn | |||