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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Personnel Economics

Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and David Card, Organizers

July 22-23, 2015

Skyline Rooms
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 22
12:00 noon	Lunch
	Afternoon session joint with Labor Studies
1:00 pm	Costas Cavounidis, Boston University Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
2:00 pm	Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics Daniel Metzger, Stockholm School of Economics Michael J. Boehm, University of Bonn "Since You're so Rich, You Must be Very Smart": Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Orie Shelef, Stanford University Amy Nguyen-Chyung, University of California at Berkeley Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 23
8:15 am	Coffee and pastries
8:45 am	Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER Teachers Pay For Performance in the Long-Run: Effects on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in Adulthood
9:30 am	Greer K. Gosnell, London School of Economics John List, University of Chicago and NBER Robert Metcalfe, University of Chicago The Behavioralist Takes Flight: Leveraging Field Experiments to Lower Carbon Emissions from Airplanes
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER Danielle Li, Harvard University Discretion in Hiring
11:15 am	Nava Ashraf, Harvard University and NBER Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics Scott S. Lee, Harvard Business School Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection and Performance in Public Services Delivery. .
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Danielle Li, Harvard University Kelly Shue, University of Chicago and NBER Do Good Promotion Tournaments Make Bad Managers? Evidence of the Peter Principle in Sales
1:45 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Brigham Frandsen, Brigham Young University Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER Persistently Inefficient? The Common-Agency Problem and Organizational Fragmentation in the US Healthcare System
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Michael Housman, Evolv, Incorporation Dylan B. Minor, Northwestern University Toxic Workers
3:45 pm	Adjourn