NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

Personnel Economics Workshop

 

 

 

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

 

 

 

July 29 and 30, 2010

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suite

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 

6:30 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Tournaments in Education

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

Lisa Kahn, Harvard University

 

 

Fabian Lange, Yale University

 

 

Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

Kristina Steffenson McElheran, Harvard University

 

 

Delegation in Multi-Divisional Firms: The Organizational Structure of I.T. Purchasing Authority

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

  

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

MORNING SEESION JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Dirk Jenter, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Katharina Lewellen, Dartmouth College

 

 

Performance Induced CEO Turnover

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 

 

 

9:45 am

Luca Flabbi, Georgetown University

 

 

Mario Macis, University of Michigan

 

 

Fabiano Schivardi, University of Cagliari

 

 

The Impact of Women CEOs on Firm Performance

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Ian Larkin, Harvard University

 

Stephen Leider, University of Michigan

 

Why do firms use non-linear incentive schemes?

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Erling Barth, University of Oslo

 

Alex Bryson, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

 

James Davis, Census Bureau

 

Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Contribution of Dispersion across Plants to the Increase in US Earnings Dispersion

 

 

2:00 pm

Christopher Stanton, Stanford University

 

Catherine Thomas, Columbia University

 

Information and Labor Market Intermediaries in Online Search and Hiring

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:15 pm

Kathyrn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER

 

Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University and NBER

 

Insider Econometrics: Empirical Studies of How Management Matters

 

 

3:45 pm

James Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

 

Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

 

 

4:15 pm

Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER

 

Scott Schaeffer, University of Utah

 

Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn