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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Labor Studies

David Card, Organizer

July 25-29, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25

 

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

 

8:30 am

Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

 

9:20 am

Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago and NBER
Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER
Divergent Paths: Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Racial Earnings Differences, 1940-2013

 

10:10 am

Break

 

10:30 am

Julien M. Lafortune, University of California at Berkeley
Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER
School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement

 

11:20 am

Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER
Estimation of an Equilibrium Model with Externalities: Combining the Strengths of Structural Models and Quasi-Experiments

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

1:00 pm

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
David J. Price, Stanford University
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
Till M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Firming up Inequality

 

1:50 pm

Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER
Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

3:00 pm

Brian Bell, University of Oxford
Stephen Machin, University College London
Minimum Wages and Firm Value

 

3:50 pm

Emily L. Breza, Columbia University and NBER
Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Yogita Shamdasani, Columbia University
The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

 

4:40 pm

Benjamin Friedrich, Yale University
Lisa Laun, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
Earnings Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

Tuesday, July 26

 

Morning Session joint with Public Economics

 

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

 

8:30 am

Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States, 1913-2013

 

9:20 am

David W. Berger, Northwestern University and NBER
Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
Stimulating Housing Markets

 

10:10 am

Break

 

10:30 am

Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States

 

11:20 am

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER
Jordan C. Kyle, IFPRI
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sudarno Sumarto, TNP2K and SMERU
Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

NBER Market Design: 2016 Methods Lectures

 

1:15 pm

Welcome

 

1:20 pm

Al Roth: Game Theory and Market Design

 

2:05 pm

Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu: Design of Matching Markets

 

2:50 pm

Break

 

3:00 pm

Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Parag Pathak: Research Design meets Market Design

 

3:45 pm

Nikhil Agarwal: Revealed Preference Analysis in Matching Markets

 

4:30 pm

Break

 

4:40 pm

Itai Ashlagi: Matching Dynamics and Computation 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

Wednesday, July 27

 

Morning joint with Economics of Education

 

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

8:30 am

Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Abhijeet Singh University College London
Alejandro J. Ganimian, Harvard University
Teaching All Students, and Not Just the Top of the Class: Experimental Evidence on Technology-led Education in India

Afternoon joint with Personnel

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

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

 

Morning session joint with Children

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

8:30 am

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Robert T. Jensen, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education

 

9:20 am

Naomi Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Corinne S. Low, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF

 

10:10 am

Break

 

10:30 am

Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics
Camille Landais, London School of Economics
Jakob Sogaard, University of Copenhagen
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark

 

11:20 am

Robert Paul Hartley, University of Kentucky
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky
James P. Ziliak, University of Kenturcky
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

 

Labor Studies continues

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

1:30 pm

Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Alexander Torgovitsky, Northwestern University
Andres Santos, University of California at San Diego
Using Instrumental Variables for Inference about Policy Relevant Treatment Parameters

 

2:15 pm

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER: Discussion (slides)

 

2:30 pm

Q and A

 

2:40 pm

Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Doing More When You're Running LATE: Applying Marginal Treatment Effect Methods to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Experiments

 

3:25 pm

Michael Kolesar, Princeton University: Discussion (slides)

 

3:40 pm

Q and A

 

3:50 pm

Matias D. Cattaneo, University of Michigan
Michael Jansson, University of California at Berkeley
Xinwei Ma, University of Michigan
Slides of "Marginal Treatment Effects with Many Instruments"

 

4:35 pm

Edward Vytlacil, Yale University and NBER: Discussion (slides)

 

4:50 pm

Q and A

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

Friday, July 29

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Morning session joint with the Economics of Crime Group

 

8:30 am

Will S. Dobbie, Princeton University and NBER
Jacob S. Goldin,
Department of the Treasury
Crystal Yang, Harvard University
The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
 

 

9:30 am

Manudeep Bhuller, University of Chicago
Gordon Dahl, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Katrine V. Løken, University of Bergen
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Amanda Agan, Princeton University
Sonja B. Starr, University of Michigan
Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment
 

 

12:00 n

Lunch