Meetings, Winter 2022-23

12/31/2022
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International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

An International Finance and Macroeconomics Program meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on October 14, 2022. Research Associate Wenxin Du of the University of Chicago and Research Associate Kei-Mu Yi of the University of Houston organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Julian di Giovanni, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland and NBER; Alvaro Silva, University of Maryland; and Muhammed A. Yildirim, Koç University, “Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade, and Inflation” (NBER Working Paper 30240)
  • Hyeyoon Jung, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Real Consequences of Foreign Exchange Derivatives Hedging”
  • Leslie Sheng Shen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board, “Risk Sharing and Amplification in the Global Financial Network”
  • Andrés Blanco, University of Michigan; Andrés Drenik, University of Texas at Austin; and Emilio Zaratiegui, Columbia University, “Nominal Devaluations, Inflation, and Inequality”
  • Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics, “Sanctions and the Exchange Rate” (NBER Working Paper 30009)
  • Hamid Firooz, University of Rochester, and Mehran Ebrahimian, Stockholm School of Economics, “The Implications of Financial Frictions with International Trade Barriers”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/international-finance-and-macroeconomics-program-meeting-fall-2022

Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

A Chinese Economy Working Group meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on October 21–22, 2022. Research Associates Hanming Fang of the University of Pennsylvania, Zhiguo He of the University of Chicago, Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University, and Wei Xiong of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Hanming Fang; Ming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; and Zenan Wu, Peking University, “Tournament-Style Political Competition and Local Protectionism: Theory and Evidence from China”
  • Shumiao Ouyang, Princeton University, “Cashless Payment and Financial Inclusion”
  • Huiyan Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, “Patent Litigation, Patent Value, and the Direction of Innovation: Evidence from China”
  • Rubin Hao, University of Macau; Conghui Hu, Beijing Normal University; Xin Xu, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics; and Yu Zhang, Ant Group, “Beyond Performance: The Financial Education Role of Robo-advising”
  • Christopher Clayton, Yale University; Amanda Dos Santos, Columbia University; Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER; and Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER, “Internationalizing like China” (NBER Working Paper 30336)
  • Ran Chang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER, “Blockchain without Crypto? Linking On-Chain Data Growth to Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns”
  • Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER; Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER; and Bo Li, Tsinghua University, “Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China” (NBER Working Paper 30161)
  • Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER; and Jie Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Power and the Direction of Research: Evidence from China’s Academia”
  • Zhiguo He; Bibo Liu, Tsinghua University; and Feifei Zhu, Central University of Finance and Economics, “Share Pledging in China: Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?” (NBER Working Paper 29731)

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/chinese-economy-working-group-meeting-fall-2022

Political Economy Program Meeting

A Political Economy Program meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on October 21, 2022. Research Associates Hülya Eraslan of Rice University, James M. Snyder Jr. of Harvard University, and Thomas Fujiwara of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Oren Danieli and Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University; Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Noam Gidron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right”
  • Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford; Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham; and Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER, “Black Empowerment and Whites’ Backlash: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act”
  • Jaya Wen, Harvard University, “State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China”
  • Juan Pablo Chauvin, Inter-American Development Bank, and Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles, “Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”
  • Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER; Joseph Campbell, Lucas de Lara, and Victoria R. Mooers, Columbia University; and Dilip Ravindran, Humboldt University Berlin, “Delegation under Liquid Democracy. Two Experiments”
  • Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics, and Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER, “Competitive Media Capture”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/political-economy-program-meeting-fall-2022

Insurance Working Group Meeting

An Insurance Working Group meeting was held at the Gleacher Center of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL on October 21, 2022. Research Associates Benjamin R. Handel of the University of California, Berkeley and Motohiro Yogo of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Alexandru Barbu, INSEAD, “Ex-post Loss Sharing in Consumer Financial Markets”
  • Raymond Kluender, Harvard University, “Pay-as-You-Go Insurance: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Demand and Behavior”
  • Xin Chen, Yi-Chun Chen, Jeong-Bon Kim, and Wenfeng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, “Insurance Product Pricing in Anticipation of IFRS 17”
  • Edward Kong, Harvard University, and Timothy Layton and Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER, “Adverse Selection Pricing and Unraveling of Competition in Insurance Markets”
  • Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania, and Sebastián Fleitas, University of Leuven, “Static and Dynamic Incentives in Selection Markets”
  • Sangmin Oh, University of Chicago, “Social Inflation”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/insurance-working-group-meeting-fall-2022

Asset Pricing Program Meeting

An Asset Pricing Program meeting was held at the Intercontinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA on October 28, 2022. Research Associates Anna Cieslak of Duke University and Valentin Haddad of the University of California, Los Angeles organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER; Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER; Federico Mainardi and Sangmin Oh, University of Chicago; and Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER, “Asset Demand of US Households”
  • Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER, and Jonathan L. Wallen, Stanford University, “Segmented Arbitrage” (NBER Working Paper 30561)
  • Zefeng Chen, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University and NBER; Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER; Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER; and Mindy Z. Xiaolan, University of Texas at Austin, “Exorbitant Privilege Gained and Lost: Fiscal Implications” (NBER Working Paper 30059)
  • Constantin Charles, Cary Frydman, and Mete Kilic, University of Southern California, “Insensitive Investors”
  • Magnus Dahlquist, Stockholm School of Economics; Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, Indiana University; Anna Pavlova, London Business School; and Julien Pénasse, University of Luxembourg, “International Capital Markets and Wealth Transfers”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/asset-pricing-program-meeting-fall-2022

Corporate Finance Program Meeting

A Corporate Finance Program meeting was held at the Intercontinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA on October 28, 2022. Research Associates Wei Jiang of Emory University and Amit Seru of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Paul Gertler and Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Sean Higgins, Northwestern University; and Waldo Ojeda, Baruch College, The City University of New York, “Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities”
  • Alex Edmans, London Business School; Doron Y. Levit, University of Washington; and Jan Schneemeier, Indiana University, “Socially Responsible Divestment”
  • Martin Oehmke, London School of Economics, and Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics, “Green Capital Requirements”
  • Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley, and Greg Buchak and Claudia Robles Garcia, Stanford University, “Wide or Narrow? Competition and Scope in Financial Intermediation”
  • Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER; Yufeng Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Kairong Xiao, Columbia University, “Will Central Bank Digital Currency Disintermediate Banks?”
  • John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER, “Housing Demand and Remote Work” (NBER Working Paper 30041)
  • Vincent Glode, University of Pennsylvania, and Guillermo Ordoñez, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, “Technological Progress and Rent Seeking”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/corporate-finance-program-meeting-fall-2022

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting

An Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program meeting was held at at the Gleacher Center of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and over Zoom.us on October 28, 2022. Research Associates Veronica Guerrieri of the University of Chicago and Giorgio Primiceri of Northwestern University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, and Nathan Zorzi, Dartmouth College, “Inefficient Automation” (NBER Working Paper 30154)
  • Ricardo J. Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, and Alp Simsek, Yale University and NBER, “A Monetary Policy Asset Pricing Model” (NBER Working Paper 30132)
  • Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board; Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; and Ayşegül Şahin, University of Texas at Austin and NBER, “The Dual US Labor Market Uncovered”
  • Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER; Patrick J. Kehoe and Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER; and Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, “The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run” (NBER Working Paper 30294)
  • Michael D. Bauer, Universität Hamburg, and Eric T. Swanson, University of California, Irvine and NBER, “An Alternative Explanation for the ‘Fed Information Effect” (NBER Working Paper 27013)
  • Julian di Giovanni, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland and NBER; Alvaro N. Silva, University of Maryland; and Muhammed A. Yildirim, Koç University, “Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade and Inflation” (NBER Working Paper 30240)

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/economic-fluctuations-and-growth-program-meeting-fall-2022

Market Design Working Group Meeting

A Market Design Working Group meeting was held at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA on November 4–5, 2022. Research Associates Eric Budish of the University of Chicago and Jakub Kastl of Princeton University, and Marzena Rostek of the University of Wisconsin-Madison organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Alex Chan, Stanford University, and Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University and NBER, “Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement: A Market Design Lab Experiment”
  • Ji Hee Yoon, University College London, “Endogenous Market Structure: Over-the-Counter versus Exchange Trading”
  • Stephan Lauermann, University of Bonn, and Asher Wolinsky, Northwestern University, “Auctions with Frictions”
  • Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University, and Olivier Tercieux, Paris School of Economics, “Optimal Queue Design”
  • Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER, and Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University, “Pure-Strategy Equilibrium in the Generalized First-Price Auction”
  • John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Chaim Fershtman, Tel Aviv University; and Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER, “Artificial Intelligence and Pricing: The Impact of Algorithm Design” (NBER Working Paper 28535)
  • Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Harvard University; Ori Heffetz, Cornell University and NBER; and Clayton Thomas, Princeton University, “Strategyproofness-Exposing Mechanism Descriptions”
  • Milena Almagro, University of Chicago; Felipe Barbieri and Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania; Nathaniel G. Hickok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, “Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago”
  • Dirk Bergemann, Yale University; Tibor Heumann, PUC Chile; and Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Screening with Persuasion”
  • Hulya Eraslan and Jeremy T. Fox, Rice University and NBER, and YingHua He and Yakym Pirozhenko, Rice University, “Measuring the Welfare Gains from Cardinal-Preference Mechanisms in School Choice”
  • Eduardo Perez-Richet, Sciences Po, and Vasiliki Skreta, University of Texas at Austin and University College London, “Fraud-Proof Nonmarket Allocation Mechanisms”
  • Marek Pycia, University of Zurich, and Kyle Woodward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Pollution Permits: Efficiency by Design”
  • Ravi Jagadeesan, Stanford University, and Alexander Teytelboym, University of Oxford, “Matching and Prices”
  • Giovanni Cespa, City University London, and Xavier Vives, IESE Business School, “Market Opacity and Fragility”
  • Jason Allen, Bank of Canada, and Milena Wittwer, Boston College, “Intermediary Asset Pricing: Capital Constraints and Market Power”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/market-design-working-group-meeting-fall-2022

Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting

A Behavioral Finance Working Group meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on November 11, 2022. Research Associate Nicholas C. Barberis of Yale University organized the meeting, which was supported by Fuller and Thaler Asset Management, and Bracebridge Capital. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University, and Chen Lian and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, “The Economics of Financial Stress”
  • Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University and NBER; Hongqi Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Cameron Peng, London School of Economics; and Hongjun Yan, DePaul University, “Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field”
  • Pamela Giustinelli and Stefano Rossi, Bocconi University, “The Coherence Side of Rationality: Rules of Thumb, Narrow Bracketing, and Managerial Incoherence in Corporate Forecasts”
  • Peter Maxted, University of California, Berkeley, “Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma”
  • Svetlana Bryzgalova, Anna Pavlova, and Taisiya Sikorskaya, London Business School, “Retail Trading in Options and the Rise of the Big Three Wholesalers”
  • Matthew Baron, Cornell University; Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER; and Zhijiang Ye, Princeton University, “Measuring Time-Varying Disaster Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Dark Matter in Asset Prices”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/behavioral-finance-working-group-meeting-fall-2022

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

A Monetary Economics Program meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on November 11, 2022. Research AssociatesAdam Guren of Boston University and Ayşegül Şahin of the University of Texas at Austin organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER; Stephen Hansen, Imperial College London; Michael McMahon, University of Oxford; and Song Xiao, London School of Economics, “Policymakers’ Uncertainty”
  • Oliver Pfäuti, University of Mannheim, and Fabian Seyrich, BSE Berlin and DIW Berlin, “A Behavioral Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian Model”
  • Noémie Pinardon-Touati, Columbia University, “The Crowding-Out Effect of Local Government Debt: Micro- and Macro-Estimates”
  • Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University and NBER; Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER; and Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board, “Monetary-Based Asset Pricing: A Mixed Frequency Structural Approach” (NBER Working Paper 30072)
  • Andrés Drenik, University of Texas at Austin; Andrés Blanco, University of Michigan; and Christian Moser and Emilio Zaratiegui, Columbia University, “A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets”

A keynote address was presented by Richard Clarida of Columbia University, a former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/monetary-economics-program-meeting-fall-2022

Labor Studies Program Meeting

A Labor Studies Program meeting was held at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and over Zoom.us on November 18, 2022. Program Directors David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alexandre Mas of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER; Søren Leth-Petersen and Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen; Minjoon Lee, Carleton University; and Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER, “How Worker Productivity and Wages Grow with Tenure and Experience: The Firm Perspective”
  • Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University, and Peter Skogman Thoursie, Stockholm University, “The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory”
  • Kirill Borusyak, University College London; Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER; and Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, “Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks”
  • Costas Cavounidis and Raghav Malhotra, University of Warwick; Qingyuan Chai, Boston University; and Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER, “Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations”
  • Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; Ruobing Han, Stanford University; and James Liang, Peking University, “How Hybrid Working from Home Works Out” (NBER Working Paper 30292)
  • Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER; François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London; Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University; and Claire Montialoux, University of California, Berkeley, “Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/labor-studies-program-meeting-fall-2022

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

An Organizational Economics Working Group meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel and over Zoom.us on December 2–3, 2022. Research Associate Robert S. Gibbons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Toronto, and Alice Hsiaw, Brandeis University, “Bayesian Doublespeak”
  • Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Woojin Kim, University of California, Berkeley; and Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University, “Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption” (NBER Working Paper 30144)
  • Jeffrey Ely, George Georgiadis, and Luis Rayo, Northwestern University, and Sina Khorasani, University of California, San Diego, “Optimal Feedback in Contests”
  • Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, and Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics, and Katalin Szemeredi, Corvinus University, “Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organizations”
  • Jason Sandvik, Tulane University; Richard Saouma, Michigan State University; Nathan Seegert, University of Utah; and Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER, “Should Workplace Programs be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship” (NBER Working Paper 29148)
  • Silvia F. Castro and Florian Englmaier, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; and Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD, “Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT”
  • Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University; Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER; Ada Gonzalez-Torres, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; and Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle, “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations”
  • John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER, “Organizations Not Atoms: Rules, Organizations, and Long-Term Development”
  • Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University, “Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants”
  • Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Alex X. He, University of Maryland; and Daniel le Maire, University of Copenhagen, “Eclipse of Rent Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark” (NBER Working Paper 29874)
  • Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER, and Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University, “Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Communication in a Large Microfinance Institution”
  • Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics; Mario Bernasconi, Tilburg University; Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University; and Carlos Suarez, Pompeu Fabra University, “Market Transparency and Relational Collusion in the Colombia Electricity Market”
  • Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University, and Peter Skogman Thoursie, Stockholm University, “The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory”

Summaries of some of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/organizational-economics-fall-2022

Development Economics Program Meeting

A Development Economics Program meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 2, 2022. Program Director Benjamin A. Olken of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Associates Lori A. Beaman and Nancy Qian of Northwestern University, and Research Associates Erica M. Field of Duke University, Asim Ijaz Khwaja of Harvard University, and Cristian Pop-Eleches of Columbia University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Karmini Sharma, Stanford University, “Tackling Sexual Harassment: Short and Long Run Experimental Evidence from India”
  • Allan Hsiao, Princeton University, “Educational Investment in Spatial Equilibrium: Evidence from Indonesia”
  • Gedeon J. Lim, The University of Hong Kong, “Local Elites, Land Rents, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia”
  • James Dzansi and Henry Telli, International Growth Centre; Anders Jensen, Harvard University and NBER; and David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER, “Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana” (NBER Working Paper 29923)
  • Matthieu Chemin, McGill University; Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics; Vincenzo Di Maro and Manuel Maqueda, The World Bank; Paul Kimalu, Judiciary of Kenya; and Momanyi Mokaya, Conference Board of Canada, “Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Randomized Judicial Reform in Kenya”
  • Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER; Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER; and Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago, “Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India”
  • Jacob Moscona and Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard University, “Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa”
  • Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER; Yaw Nyarko, New York University and NBER; and Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, “The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence from the India-UAE Migration Corridor”
  • Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER; Sam Asher, Imperial College Business School; Kritarth Jha, Development Data Lab; Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College; and Brandon Tan, International Monetary Fund, “Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5 Million Neighborhoods”
  • Guthrie Gray-Lobe, University of Chicago; Anthony Keats, Wesleyan University; Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER; Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia and NBER; and Owen Ozier, Williams College, “Can Education Be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya”
  • Sofia Amaral, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Girija Borker, The World Bank; Nathan Fiala and Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut; and Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER, “Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrolling: Experimental Evidence from Urban India”
  • James Ji, University of Florida; Amanda Guimbeau, Université de Sherbrooke; and Zi Long and Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University, “Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink? Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation”
  • Oyebola Okunogbe, World Bank Research Group, “Becoming Legible to the State: The Role of Detection and Enforcement Capacity in Tax Compliance”

Summaries of some of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/development-program-meeting-fall-2022

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

An International Trade and Investment Program meeting was held at the JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC on December 23, 2022. Program Director Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley; Justin Tumlinson, University of Exeter; and Felix Vardy, International Monetary Fund, “Bad Trade: The Loss of Domestic Varieties”
  • Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Sevcan Yeşiltaş, and Muhammed A. Yıldırım, Koç University; and Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland and NBER, “The Economic Case of Global Vaccinations” (NBER Working Paper 28395)
  • Barthélémy Bonadio, New York University Abu Dhabi; Zhen Huo, Yale University; Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER; and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER, “Globalization, Structural Change, and International Comovement”
  • Emmanuel Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium; Ken Kikkawa, University of British Columbia; Toshiaki Komatsu, University of Chicago; and Magne Mogstad and Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago and NBER, “Foreign Demand Shocks to Production Networks: Firm Responses and Worker Impacts” (NBER Working Paper 30447)
  • Hamid Firooz, University of Rochester, “The Pro-Competitive Consequences of Trade in Frictional Labor Markets”
  • Xiang Ding, Georgetown University, “Industry Linkages from Joint Production”
  • Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER; Maggie Chen, George Washington University; and Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER, “Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences towards Trade Policy?”
  • Federico Huneeus, Central Bank of Chile; Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER; and Kevin Lim, University of Toronto, “Earnings Inequality in Production Networks” (NBER Working Paper 28424)
  • Jaedo Choi, Federal Reserve Board, and Andrei A. Levchenko, “The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy” (NBER Working Paper 29263)
  • Kirill Borusyak, University College London; Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER; and Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, “Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/international-trade-and-investment-program-meeting-fall-2022

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

An Entrepreneurship Working Group meeting was held at Le Méridien, Cambridge, MA on December 2, 2022. Research Associates Josh Lerner of Harvard University and David T. Robinson of Duke University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Jialan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER, “How Much Do Small Businesses Rely on Personal Credit?”
  • Michael Roach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology, “Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice”
  • Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma; and Nathan Seegert and Maclean Gaulin, University of Utah, “Why Is Entrepreneurial Overconfidence (So) Persistent?”
  • Matthew R. Denes, Carnegie Mellon University; Spyridon Lagaras, University of Pittsburgh; and Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER, “Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from US Tax Returns”
  • Vojislav Maksimovic, Jing Xue, and Liu Yang, University of Maryland, “Seizing Opportunities: Small Businesses, Social Capital, and Banks”
  • Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and Nishant Vats, University of Chicago, “Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program”
  • Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER; Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University; and Nikolas Zolas and Zachary Kroff, US Census Bureau, “The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups”
  • Yifei Mao, Cornell University; Xuan Tian, Tsinghua University; Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa; and Kailei Ye, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Resurrecting Dead Capital: The Sharing Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/entrepreneurship-working-group-fall-2022

Innovation Information Initiative Technical Meeting

An Innovation Information Initiative Technical meeting was held at Le Méridien, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 2–3, 2022. Research Associate Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through a subcontract with Code for Science and Society. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Fabian Gaessler, Pompeu Fabra University, and Dietmar Harhoff and Lorenz Brachtendorf, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, “Mapping Patents to Technology Standards”
  • Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, “Progress Report on an Inventor-Author Crosswalk”
  • Maya Durvasula and Lisa Larrimore Ouellete, Stanford University; Scott Hemphill, NYU Law School; Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University and NBER; and Heidi Williams, Stanford University and NBER, “The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A User’s Guide” (NBER Working Paper 30628)
  • Grigor Aslanyan and Ian Wetherbee, Google, “Patents Phrase to Phrase Semantic Matching Dataset”
  • Jean-Marc Deltorn and Chenyin Wu, University of Strasbourg; and Dominique Guellec and Jiangyin Liu, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, “Building a Corpus of ‘Patent-Article Siblings’”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/innovation-information-initiative-technical-working-group-meeting-fall-2022

Education Program Meeting

An Education Program meeting was held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 8–9, 2022. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

  • Phillip B. Levine, Wellesley College and NBER, and Dubravka Ritter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, “The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access” (NBER Working Paper 30490)
  • Michael Gilraine, New York University and NBER; Uros Petronijevic, York University; and John D. Singleton, University of Rochester, “School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality”
  • Andrea Ichino, European University Institute; Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota; and Giulio Zanella, University of Bologna, “College Education, Intelligence, and Disadvantage: Policy Lessons from the UK in 1960–2004”
  • Christopher Avery, Harvard University and NBER; Geoffrey Kocks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, “Does a Common Application Increase Access? Theory and Evidence from Boston’s Charters”
  • Sarah Cohodes, Columbia University and NBER; Helen Ho, Harvard University; and Silvia Robles, Mathematica, “Diversifying the STEM Pipeline: Evidence from STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth”
  • Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER; Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER; and Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, “How Much Do Borrowers Value Student Debt Relief? Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program”
  • Damon Clark, University of California, Irvine and NBER; Paco Martorell, University of California, Davis; and Matthew J. Wiswall, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER, “How Do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers”
  • Nicolás Ajzenman, McGill University; Gregory M. Elacqua and Luana Marotta, Inter-American Development Bank; and Anne Sofie Olsen, Novo Nordisk, “Order Effects and Teachers’ Labor Supply: A Nationwide RCT in Ecuador”
  • Riley K. Acton, Miami University; Wenjia Cao, Michigan State University; Emily E. Cook, Tulane University; Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER; and Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER, “The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread: Evidence from College COVID-19 Mandates” (NBER Working Paper 30303)
  • Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University and NBER; Mark P. Walsh, Stanford University; and Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University, “Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana”
  • Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics; Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; and Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER, “COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India (NBER Working Paper 30552)

Summaries of some of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/education-program-meeting-fall-2022

Health Economics Program Meeting

A Health Economics Program meeting was held at Le Méridien, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 9, 2022. Program Director Christopher "Kitt" Carpenter of Vanderbilt University and Research Associate Laura Dague of Texas A&M University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/health-economics-program-meeting-fall-2022