SI 2024 Personnel Economics

Mitchell Hoffman and Lisa B. Kahn, Organizers

July 24-25, 2024

Skyline ABC

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Brayan S. Diaz, Harvard University
Andrea Neyra Nazarrett, Harvard University
Julian Ramirez
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University

Training Within Firms
9:45 am
Lea Heursen, Humboldt University Berlin
Svenja Friess, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Marina Chugunova, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Reputational Concerns and Advice-Seeking at Work
10:25 am
Break
10:45 am
David MacDonald, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Jerry Montonen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California

Dating and Breaking Up with the Boss: Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers
11:30 am
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University

Value Dissonance at Work
12:15 pm
Lunch
Joint paper with Gender in the Economy
1:30 pm
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Julian Costas-Fernandez, University College London
Sebastian Findeisen, University of Konstanz
Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London
Uta Schönberg, University College London

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies (slides)
2:15 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Alice H. Wu, Harvard University

Reveal or Conceal? Employer Learning in the Labor Market for Computer Scientists
3:10 pm
Break
3:25 pm
Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Alexandre Mas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Derek Messacar, Memorial University

The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector: Evidence from Higher Education
4:10 pm
Samuel Dodini, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics

How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner, Helmand Restaurant, 143 First St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago
Navin Kartik, Columbia University

Test-Optional Admissions
9:45 am
German J. Reyes, Middlebury College
Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER
Ruqing Xu, Cornell University

Stakes and Signals: An Empirical Investigation of Muddled Information in Standardized Testing
10:25 am
Break
10:45 am
Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University
Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University

Personal Connections and Hiring Decisions in the Public Sector
11:30 am
Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame

Price Discovery in Labor Markets: Why Do Firms Say They Cannot Find Workers?
12:10 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
1:10 pm
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

Meaning at Work
1:55 pm
Richard Audoly, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Manudeep Bhuller, University of Oslo
Tore Adam Reiremo, University of Oslo

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