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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 22
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Economic Decision-Making Skill Predicts Income in Two Countries (slides)
9:15 am

Collusion Among Employers in India
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
11:05 am

Longevity and Occupational Choice (slides)
11:25 am

Effective and Scalable Programs to Facilitate Labor Market Transitions for Women in Technology (slides)
11:45 am

The Adoption of ChatGPT
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:05 pm

Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers
1:50 pm

Earnings Instability
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm

Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (slides)
3:40 pm

Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements (slides)
4:25 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement?
9:15 am

Firm Wages and Worker Search
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Do Commuting Subsidies Drive Workers to Better Firms? (slides)
11:05 am

Vacancy Duration and Wages
11:25 am

Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
11:45 am

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence From a Randomized Lottery
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:05 pm

The Evolution of the German Wage Distribution Before and After the Great Recession
1:50 pm

Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm

Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay
3:40 pm

Tribal Casinos, Economic Success, and Intergenerational Mobility
4:25 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 24

Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Public Economics
8:30 am

Marginal Returns to Public Universities
9:15 am
Break
9:30 am

Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations
10:15 am

Work Requirements and Child Tax Benefits: Evidence from California
11:00 am
Break
11:20 am

The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States
12:05 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Education
1:10 pm

A Rosetta Stone for Human Capital
2:00 pm

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
4:00 pm

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (slides)
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
Discussant: Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:30 am

Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings
Discussant: Liyang Sun, University College London
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am

Negative Controls Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs (slides)
Discussant: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:20 am

Estimating Counterfactual Matrix Means with Short Panel Data
Discussant: Jonathan Roth, Brown University
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Personnel Economics
1:10 pm

Meaning at Work
1:55 pm

The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads
2:40 pm
Adjourn