SI 2023 Labor Studies

David Autor, Rebecca Diamond, Patrick M. Kline, Brian K. Kovak, Alexandre Mas, Melvin Stephens Jr., Lowell Taylor, and Winnie van Dijk, Organizers

July 24-27, 2023

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

The Power of Proximity to Coworkers: Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?
Discussant: Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California and NBER
9:55 am

The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy (slides)
Discussant: Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:05 am

Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells
Discussant: Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:55 pm

Diversifying Society’s Leaders: The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Discussant: Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER
1:50 pm

Hiring and the Dynamics of the Gender Gap
Discussant: Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

How can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations
Discussant: Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School (slides)
3:55 pm

Job Transitions and Employee Earnings After Acquisitions: Linking Corporate and Worker Outcomes
Discussant: José A. Azar, University of Navarra
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Moving to Opportunity, Together
Discussant: Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
9:55 am

LinkedOut! Discrimination in Job Network Formation
Discussant: Zoë B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am

The Political Economy of Innovation in the Industrial Revolution: Labor Market Conflict and Technical Change
Discussant: Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:55 pm

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
Discussant: Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER
1:50 pm

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin (slides)
Discussant: Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (slides)
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply
Discussant: Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:55 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

The Limited Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection (slides)
9:15 am
Break
9:30 am

The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux
10:15 am

Unemployment Insurance Incentives of Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Workers
11:00 am
Break
11:25 am

Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability
12:10 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Afternoon joint with Education
1:20 pm

Screening with Multitasking: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Teacher Tenure Reform
2:10 pm

Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga
3:00 pm
Break
3:20 pm

Social Interactions and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles (slides)
4:10 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
Discussant: David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:50 am

Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion
Discussant: Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago and NBER
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am

On the Fairness of Machine-Assisted Human Decisions: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am

Decomposing Changes in the Gender Wage Gap over Worker Careers (slides)
Discussant: Christopher R. Walters, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:15 pm

Bargaining in the Labor Market
2:00 pm

An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance
2:45 pm

Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control
3:25 pm
Adjourn