SI 2020 Labor Studies

David Autor, Patrick M. Kline, and Alexandre Mas, Organizers

July 20-23, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 20
12:00 pm

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
Moderator: Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER
1:00 pm

Hiring as Exploration
Moderator: Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
2:00 pm

The Central Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality
Moderator: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm

Spillover Effects From Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages
Moderator: Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
4:00 pm

New Indices of Social Capital: Measurement, Determinants, and Applications to Economic Mobility
(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
Moderator: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm

Electrifying? How New Technologies Impact Productivity and Jobs
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
Moderator: John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm

Local Employment and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA (slides)
Moderator: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:00 pm

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era
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 (slides)
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER (slides)
11:00 am

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature
Discussant: Michal Kolesár, Princeton University (slides)
12:00 pm

A Model of Scientific Communication (slides)
Discussant: James J. Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)
1:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 23
10:00 am

Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
Moderator: Sandra Black, Columbia University and NBER
11:00 am

Employment Eligibility Verification Requirements and Local Labor Market Outcomes
Moderator: Leah Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
12:00 pm

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
Moderator: Till von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
1:00 pm
Adjourn