SI 2021 Labor Studies

David Autor, Patrick M. Kline, Alexandre Mas, Conrad Miller, Isaac Sorkin, Heather Sarsons, and Simon Jäger, Organizers

July 26-29, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 26
11:00 am
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Virginia M.L. Minni, University of Chicago
Víctor M. Quintas-Martínez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Misallocation of Women’s Talent Across Countries (slides)
Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm
Lily Fang, INSEAD
Jim Goldman, University of Warwick
Alexandra Roulet, INSEAD

Private Equity and Pay Gaps Inside the Firm
Discussant: Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
1:00 pm
Alan Manning, London School of Economics
Michael Amior, Hebrew University

Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration
Discussant: Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:00 pm
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers (slides)
Discussant: Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
3:00 pm
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University
Claire Montialoux, University of California at Berkeley

Collective Bargaining, Wage Floors, and the Racial Earnings Gap (slides)
Discussant: Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 27
11:00 am
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018 (slides)
Discussant: David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Balazs Murakozy, University of Liverpool
Balázs Reizer, Central European University
Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner, University of Oslo

Firm-level Technological Change and Skill Demand
Discussant: Daniel Haanwinckel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
1:00 pm
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University
Yannay Shanan, Bar Ilan University

Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT
Discussant: John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm
Marshall H. Drake, Boston University
Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Neil Thakral, Brown University

Wage Differentials and the Distribution of Job Amenity Values
Discussant: Alex Imas, University of Chicago and NBER
3:00 pm
Massimo Anelli, Bocconi University
Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University

Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety
Discussant: Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 28
11:00 am
Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael Graber, Statistics Norway
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
David Novgorodsky, University of Chicago

How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income
Discussant: Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm
Martit Kaila, University of Glasgow
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Krista Riukula, ETLA

Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility
Discussant: Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
1:00 pm
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher P. Roth, University of Cologne
Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Worker Beliefs about Rents and Outside Options
Discussant: Alan Manning, London School of Economics
2:00 pm
Simon Quach, University of Southern California

The Labor Market Effects of Expanding Overtime Coverage
Discussant: Stephen J. Trejo, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
3:00 pm
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University

Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up (slides)
Discussant: Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 29
Methods Session in Labor Studies
12:00 pm
Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER

Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications (slides)
Discussant: Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
1:00 pm
Davide Viviano, Harvard University
Kaspar Wüthrich, University of California at San Diego
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER

(When) should you adjust Inferences for Multiple Hypothesis Testing?
Discussant: Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm
Vira Semenova, University of California, Berkeley

Better Lee Bounds (slides)
Discussant: Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm
Lea Bottmer, Stanford University
Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER
Jann Spiess, Stanford University
Merrill Warnick, Stanford University

A Design-Based Perspective on Synthetic Control Methods (slides)
Discussant: Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University
4:00 pm
Adjourn