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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

SI 2016 Personnel Economics 

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

July 27-28, 2016 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Rooms
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 27 – Joint with Labor Studies
1:00 pm	Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Arizona State University Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
1:45 pm	Alexandre Mas, Princeton University and NBER Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
3:30 pm	Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Automation of Subjective Judgments: Theory and Evidence from Resume Screening
4:15 pm	Adjourn
4:30 pm	Martin Feldstein Lecture
6:00 pm	Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 28
8:15 am	Coffee and pastries
8:45 am	David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
9:30 am	Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER Fabian Lange, McGill University Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Mark L. Egan, University of Minnesota Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago and NBER Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
11:15 am	Elizabeth Forsythe, University of Illinois-Urbana Downward Occupational Mobility within Firms
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Lucia Foster, Bureau of the Census Ron S. Jarmin, Bureau of the Census Megha Patnaik, Stanford University Itay Saporta Eksten, Tel Aviv University John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER What Drives Differences in Management?
1:45 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gautam Rao, Harvard University and NBER Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Adnan Khan, London School of Economics Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers
3:45 pm	Adjourn