SI 2024 Labor Studies
David Autor, Sydnee Caldwell, Andrew Garin, Patrick M. Kline, Thibaut Lamadon, Alexandre Mas, Evan K. Rose, and Melanie Wasserman, Organizers
July 22-25, 2024
Ballroom A
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA, zoom.us
| Monday, July 22 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Economic Decision-Making Skill Predicts Income in Two Countries |
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| 9:15 am |
Collusion Among Employers in India |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:20 am |
Social Preferences, Hostility, and Dismissals: Evidence from Failures of Bilateral Efficiency in “Separations by Mutual Agreement” in France |
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| 11:05 am |
Longevity and Occupational Choice |
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| 11:25 am |
Effective and Scalable Programs to Facilitate Labor Market Transitions for Women in Technology |
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| 11:45 am |
The Adoption of ChatGPT |
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| 12:05 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:05 pm |
Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers |
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| 1:50 pm |
Earnings Instability |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |||
| 2:55 pm |
Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data |
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| 3:40 pm |
Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements |
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| 4:25 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement? |
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| 9:15 am |
Firm Wages and Worker Search |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:20 am |
Do Commuting Subsidies Drive Workers to Better Firms? |
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| 11:05 am |
Vacancy Duration and Wages |
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| 11:25 am |
Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance |
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| 11:45 am |
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence From a Randomized Lottery |
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| 12:05 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:05 pm |
The Evolution of the German Wage Distribution Before and After the Great Recession |
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| 1:50 pm |
Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |||
| 2:55 pm |
Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay |
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| 3:40 pm |
Tribal Casinos, Economic Success, and Intergenerational Mobility |
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| 4:25 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 24 | ||||
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Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence |
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| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Public Economics | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Marginal Returns to Public Universities |
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| 9:15 am | Break | |||
| 9:30 am |
Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations |
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| 10:15 am |
Work Requirements and Child Tax Benefits: Evidence from California |
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 11:20 am |
The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States |
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| 12:05 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Education | ||||
| 1:10 pm |
A Rosetta Stone for Human Capital |
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| 2:00 pm |
Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement |
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:10 pm |
Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence |
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| 4:00 pm |
Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 |
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| 4:50 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Thursday, July 25 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:40 am |
Identification and Estimation in a Class of Potential Outcomes Models
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| 9:30 am |
Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings
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| 10:20 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Negative Controls Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs
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| 11:20 am |
Estimating Counterfactual Matrix Means with Short Panel Data
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics | ||||
| 1:10 pm |
Meaning at Work |
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| 1:55 pm |
The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads |
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| 2:40 pm | Adjourn | |||