2021 Conference on Labor Economics & Public Finance
June 7, 2021
Location: Virtual
Organizers: Joseph Altonji and Costas Meghir
Note: The first session on the first day will start in Zoom.
*Presenters
Monday, June 7
"Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability"
Naoki Aizawa (University of Wisconsin-Madison), *Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stephanie Rennane (RAND Corporation)
"The Old Boys Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap"
*Zöe B. Cullen (Harvard University), Ricardo Perez-Truglia (University of California, Berkeley)
Coffee Break
"Selection in Surveys"
*Winnie van Dijk (Harvard University), Deniz Dutz (University of Chicago), Ingrid Huitfeld (Statistics Norway ), Santiago Lacouture (University of Chicago)
"Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil"
*Conrad Miller (University of California, Berkeley), Ian Schmutte (University of Georgia)
Lunch
"The Punishment Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant Outcomes"
Kristiina Huttunen (Aalto University), Martti Kaila (University of Helsinki), *Emily Nix (University of Southern California)
"Does Welfare Prevent Crime? Criminal Justice Involvement Among Youth Receiving Supplemental Security Income"
*Manasi Deshpande (University of Chicago), Michael Mueller-Smith (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)
Coffee Break
"Clinical Trial Sex Composition and Drug Quality"
Britni Wilcher (American University)
"Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans"
*Jason Abaluck (Yale University), Mauricio Cáceres Bravo (Brown University), Peter Hull (University of Chicago), Amanda Starc (Northwestern University)