SI 2024 Personnel Economics
Mitchell Hoffman and Lisa B. Kahn, Organizers
July 24-25, 2024
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Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:30 am |
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University Value Dissonance at Work |
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |
| Joint paper with Gender in the Economy | ||
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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 |
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| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm |
Alice H. Wu, UW Madison Reveal or Conceal? Employer Learning in the Labor Market for Computer Scientists |
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| 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 |
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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 10:25 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am |
Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University Personal Connections and Hiring Decisions in the Public Sector |
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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:40 pm | Adjourn | |