SI 2023 Personnel Economics

Mitchell Hoffman and Christopher T. Stanton, Organizers

July 26-27, 2023

Skyline Rooms CDE

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

Wednesday, July 26
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Generative AI at Work (slides)
9:45 am	Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University Nicolas Torres, Good Business Lab Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
10:25 am	Break
10:45 am	Virginia Minni, University of Chicago Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs
11:30 am	Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia and NBER Mila Markevych, University of British Columbia Closing the Gender Pay Gap in the US Federal Service: The Role of New Managers
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Apostolos Filippas, Fordham University Andrey Fradkin, Boston University John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Subsidizing Job Search Considered Harmful: Evidence from a Field Experiment
2:05 pm	Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University Maddalena Ronchi, Kellogg School of Management Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University Hiring Difficulties and Firm Growth
2:45 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER Valdemar Pinho Neto, Fundacao Getulio Vargas Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER Politics At Work
3:50 pm	Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University Sanaz Mobasseri, Boston University Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Asymmetric Peer Effects at Work: How White Coworkers Shape the Careers of “People of Color”
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Thursday, July 27
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics Elena Pikulina, University of British Columbia Subtle Discrimination (slides)
9:45 am	Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas N. Bugra Ozel, University of Texas at Dallas Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
10:25 am	Break
10:45 am	Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego Tanjim Hossain, University of Toronto Managing Remote Team Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Constrained and Flex Scheduling
11:30 am	Danyelle Branco, Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV Bladimir Carrillo, Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV Di Fang, University of Florida Wilman J. Iglesias, Vocational Economics Inc. Expertise Overlap and Team Productivity: Evidence from the Hospital Industry (slides)
12:10 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon Joint Session with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
1:15 pm	Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Bargaining in the Labor Market
2:00 pm	Jonathan M.V. Davis, University of Oregon Kyle Greenberg, United States Military Academy at West Point and NBER Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance
2:45 pm	Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control
3:25 pm	Adjourn