NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

Personnel Economics Workshop

 

 

 

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

 

 

 

July 23 and 24, 2009

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

 

 6:00 pm

Dinner in honor of Richard Freeman

 

 

Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

 

 

(across the street from the Sonesta)

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Performance Pay, Wage Flexibility, and Hours of Work

 

 

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

 

Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology

 

 

 

 

 

PERSONNEL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

DOUGLAS FRANK, INSEAD

 

 

Ability and Agency Costs: Evidence from Polish Banking

 

 

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

 

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

 2:15 pm

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

Testing Three-Way Complementarities: Evidence from Incentives, Monitoring and Technology in a Human Capital Management System

 

 

 

 

 3:00 pm

COLLEEN FLAHERTY MANCHESTER, University of Minnesota

 

 

Screening for Commitment: The Effect of Maternity Leave Use on Wages

 

 

Joint with Lisa Leslie and Tae-Youn Park

 

 

 

 

 3:45 pm

DAVID ABRAMS, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Understanding High Skill Worker Productivity Using  Random Assignment in a Public Defender's Office

 

 

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 6:30 pm

Group Dinner at the Similans Restaurant

 

 

145 1st Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 8:45 am

ANDREA ICHINO, University of Bologna

 

 

Don’t spread yourself too thin. Parallel working and the risk of overwhelm

 

 

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

FRANCOIS RYCX, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

 

Inter-industry Wage Differentials: How much Does Rent Sharing Matter?

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

CANICE PRENDERGAST, University of Chicago

 

 

Contracts and Conflict in Organizations

 

 

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn