SI 2020 Labor Studies
David Autor, Patrick M. Kline, and Alexandre Mas, Organizers
July 20-23, 2020
on Zoom.us
| Monday, July 20 | ||||
| 12:00 pm |
Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance |
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| Moderator: Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Hiring as Exploration |
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| Moderator: Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
The Central Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality |
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| Moderator: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER | ||||
| 3:00 pm |
Spillover Effects From Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages |
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| Moderator: Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER | ||||
| 4:00 pm |
New Indices of Social Capital: Measurement, Determinants, and Applications to Economic Mobility |
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| (this paper will not be livestreamed) | ||||
| Moderator: Kerwin Charles, Yale University and NBER | ||||
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 21 | ||||
| 12:00 pm |
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France |
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| Moderator: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Electrifying? How New Technologies Impact Productivity and Jobs |
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| Moderator: Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry |
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| Moderator: John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER | ||||
| 3:00 pm |
Local Employment and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA |
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| Moderator: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER | ||||
| 4:00 pm |
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era |
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| Moderator: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER | ||||
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 22 | ||||
| Methods Session in Labor Studies | ||||
| 10:00 am |
Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions
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| 11:00 am |
Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature
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| 12:00 pm |
A Model of Scientific Communication
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Thursday, July 23 | ||||
| 10:00 am |
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors |
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| Moderator: Sandra Black, Columbia University and NBER | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Employment Eligibility Verification Requirements and Local Labor Market Outcomes |
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| Moderator: Leah Boustan, Princeton University and NBER | ||||
| 12:00 pm |
Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany |
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| Moderator: Till von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER | ||||
| 1:00 pm | Adjourn | |||