SI 2022 Labor Studies

Amanda Y. Agan, David Autor, Ellora Derenoncourt, Peter Hull, Patrick M. Kline, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, and Zoë B. Cullen, Organizers

July 25-28, 2022

Ballroom A

Format: 30 min authors 10 min discussion 10 min Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Discussant: Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
10:20 am

College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification
Discussant: Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

What’s My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking
Discussant: Laura Giuliano, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition
Discussant: Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
2:20 pm

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Discussant: Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

IV Estimation: The Strong, the Weak, and the Many Weak
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets
Discussant: Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:20 am

Gender Differences in Labor Supply:Experimental Evidence from the Gig Economy
Discussant: John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

Task Requirements, Time Requirements, and the Gender Gap in Jobs and Pay
Discussant: Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing
Discussant: Jeffrey R. Kling, Congressional Budget Office
2:20 pm

Work Hours Mismatch
Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery
Discussant: Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning session joint with Public Economics
9:30 am

The Geography of Child Penalties and Gender Norms: Evidence from the United States
10:10 am

The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am

Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes
11:50 am
Lunch
Afternoon session joint with Education
1:00 pm

Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn
1:50 pm

Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications (slides)
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Fork in the Road: The Economics and Neuroscience of Adolescent Education
3:50 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 28
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Methods session hosted by Pat Kline
9:00 am

Reinforcing RCTs with Multiple Priors while Learning about External Validity
Discussant: Toru Kitagawa, Brown University (slides)
9:50 am

Increasing the Uptake of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives Among Adolescents and Young Women in Cameroon: An Adaptive Experiment
Discussant: Maximilian Kasy, University of Oxford (slides)
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am

Policy Design in Experiments with Unknown Interference (slides)
Discussant: Timothy Armstrong, University of Southern California (slides)
11:40 am

Synthetic Control As Online Linear Regression (slides)
Discussant: Jann Spiess, Stanford University (slides)
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon session joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm

The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap
1:50 pm

Learning to Discriminate on the Job
2:25 pm

Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms
3:00 pm
Adjourn