SI 2020 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship

Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Tavneet Suri, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers

July 15, 2020

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Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 15
11:00 am
Introduction by Organizers
11:05 am
Girum Abebe, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Koelle, University of Oxford
Simon Quinn, Imperial College London

Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design
11:35 am
Break
11:40 am
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
12:10 pm
Break
12:15 pm
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Stanford University
Hamilton Taveras, Dirección General de Impuestos Internos

Opportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Advanced Labor Market Experience
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm
Julia Seither, Universidad del Rosario

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Ranking Effects on Effort, Cooperation, and Firm Performance (slides)
1:20 pm
Break
1:25 pm
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Atsushi Ohyama, Hitotsubashi University
Tetsuji Okazaki, Meiji Gakuin University
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization (slides)
1:55 pm
Closing comments by Organizers
2:00 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT: 20 minutes presentation, 10 discussion.