SI 2022 Labor Studies

Amanda Y. Agan, David Autor, Ellora Derenoncourt, Peter Hull, Patrick M. Kline, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, and Zoe 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
Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
maxim n. massenkoff, Naval Postgraduate School

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Discussant: Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
10:20 am
Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER
Aashish Mehta, University of California, Santa Barbara

College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification
Discussant: Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Shengwu Li, Harvard University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

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
Mons Chan, Queen's University
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Elena Mattana, Aarhus University
Ismael Mourifié, Washington University in St Louis and NBER

An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfect Competition
Discussant: Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
2:20 pm
Viola Corradini, Columbia Business School
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University
Garima Sharma, Northwestern University

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
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University
Michal Kolesár, Princeton University

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
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School

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

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
Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics

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
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Carl McPherson, University of California at Berkeley
Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing
Discussant: Jeffrey R. Kling, Congressional Budget Office and NBER
2:20 pm
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University

Work Hours Mismatch
Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER

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
Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER

The Geography of Child Penalties and Gender Norms: Evidence from the United States
10:10 am
Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER

The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am
Anikó Bíró, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
Reka Branyiczki, Central European University
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Lili Márk, Central European University
Daniel Prinz, World Bank

Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes
11:50 am
Lunch
Afternoon session joint with Education
1:00 pm
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Vesall Nourani, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn
1:50 pm
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau

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

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
Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Demian Pouzo, University of California at Berkeley

Reinforcing RCTs with Multiple Priors while Learning about External Validity
Discussant: Toru Kitagawa, Brown University (slides)
9:50 am
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Vitor Baisi Hadad, Amazon
Julian C. Jamison, University of Exeter
Berk Ozler, The World Bank
Luca Parisotto, Bocconi University

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
Davide Viviano, Harvard University

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

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
Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich

The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap
1:50 pm
Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota
Louis-Pierre Lepage, Stockholm University

Learning to Discriminate on the Job
2:25 pm
Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Frederik Plesner Lyngse, University of Copenhagen
Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen

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