Important note:
The Labor Economics Workshop meets Mondays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Sciences
Faculty organizer: Chris Taber
- Fall 2023
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/11 | NONE | - | - |
| 9/18 | NONE | - | - |
| 9/25 | Victoria Barone | Notre Dame | On the Design of Paid Sick Leave: A Structural Approach |
| 10/02 | Ben Friedrich | Northwestern | Families’ career investments and firms’ promotion decisions |
| 10/09 | Espen Moen | Norwegian Business School | Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation |
| 10/16 | Sharada Dharmasankar | UW-Madison | When School Matters: The Effects of Elementary, Middle, and High School Quality on Longer-Run Outcomes |
| 10/23 | Hoyoung Yoo | UW-Madison | The Welfare Consequences of Incoming Remote Workers on Local Residents |
| 10/30 | Youngjae Hwang | UW-Madison | Implications of Lump Sum Deposit Rental Agreements on Housing Demand over the Life Cycle |
| 11/06 | Jingnan Liu | UW-Madison | Worker Mobility, Knowledge Diffusion, and Non-Compete Contracts |
| 11/13 | Daniel Tannenbaum | University of Nebraska | The Effects of Eviction on Children |
| 11/15 | Alessandra L. González | University of Chicago | Doing Business Far From Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia |
| 11/20 | NONE | - | - |
| 11/27 | Bruce Meyer | University of Chicago | Poverty in the U.S. |
| 12/04 | NONE | - | - |
| 12/11 | Tim Ederer | University of Chicago | TBD |
| 12/18 | Mary Ann Bronson | Georgetown | Optimal Parental Leave Policy Design |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/06 | Luigi Pistaferri | Stanford | Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences |
| 3/20 | Ryan Mather | UW-Madison | Top Percent Plans and Student Beliefs about STEM Ability |
| 3/27 | Zhiyang Feng | UW-Madison | Fertility Policy and Female Labor Supply |
| 4/03 | Michael Gilraine | NYU | School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality |
| 4/10 | Emily Case | UW-Madison | What drives wage differences in personality types? An endogenous search intensity model |
| 4/17 | Mariacristina De Nardi | Minnesota | The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health |
| 4/24 | Allie Greenman | UW-Madison | On the Job Search with Asymmetric Information |
| 5/01 | Christopher Campos | Chicago Booth | Social Interactions and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles |
| 5/08 | Claire Kim | UW-Madison | Student Loan Debt and Job Choice of College Graduates |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/19 | Garrett Anstreicher | UW-Madison | Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility |
| 9/21 | Adam Kapor | Princeton | Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Admissions in Denmark |
| 10/10 | Minseon Park | UW-Madison | Location Choice, Commuting, and School Choice |
| 10/17 | Michèle Belot | Cornell | Broadening Job Search: A Field Experiment |
| 10/24 | Angela Jiang | UW-Madison | Migration and Long-Term Care |
| 10/31 | Salvador Navarro | University of West Ontario | Time Varying Effects of Elite Schools: Evidence from Mexico City |
| 11/07 | Suphanit Piyapromdee | University College London | The Minimum Wage Effects on Earnings and Sorting: A Wage-Mobility Discrete Type Approach |
| 11/14 | Ben Scuderi | Princeton | Bidding for Talent: Equilibrium Wage Dispersion on a High-Wage Online Job Board |
| 11/28 | Isaac McFarlin | University of Florida | How Much Do Tuition Subsidies Promote College Access? Evidence from Community College Taxing Districts |
| 12/12 | Rasmus Lentz | UW-Madison | The Anatomy of Sorting: Evidence from Danish Data (joint with Suphanit Piyapromdee and Jean-Marc Robin) |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/28 | Qin Lin | UW-Madison | Unstable Leisure Complementarity and Dual Career Couples' Joint Retirement Behavior |
| 4/4 | Kevin Hunt | UW-Madison | The Effect of Divorce and Marriage on Retirement: Evidence from Self-Reported Plans for Retirement |
| 4/18 | Selidji Tossou | UW-Madison | Who benefits the most? Direct and indirect effects of a free cesarean section policy in Benin |
| 4/11 | Thibaut Lamadon | University of Chicago | Why Do Larger Firms Have Lower Labor Shares? with Henry de Frahan, Lamadon, Meling and Mogstad |
| 4/25 | Ilse Lindenlaub | Yale | Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting |
| 5/2 | Laura Pilossoph | FRB NY | Assortative Matching and Household Income Inequality: A Structural Approach |
| 5/9 | Jeremy Lise | University of Minnesota | Production, Amenities and Search Frictions with Two Sided Heterogeneity |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/13 *VIRTUAL* | Berkeley | ||
| 9/20 | FRB St Louis | The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market | |
| 9/27 | Univ of Minnesota | A structural meta-analysis of welfare-to-work programs and their impacts on children | |
| 10/4 | UW-Madison | Job Search, Wage Dispersion, and Universal Healthcare | |
| 10/11 | UW-Madison | The Interaction Effects of Subsidized Childcare and Parental Leave Entitlements on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Germany | |
| 10/18 | UW-Madison | Migration opportunities, college enrollment and college major choice | |
| 10/25 | Johns-Hopkins | Structural Analysis of Xenophobia | |
| 11/1 | McMurry, Joel | UW-Madison | Childcare Policy and Informal Care |
| 11/15 | U-Penn | Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico | |
| 11/22 | UW-Madison | Effects of Exam-Free Semester on Private Education | |
| 11/29 | Lim, Hyun | UW-Madison | Value-Added and Selectivity in Higher Education |
| 12/6 | Univ of Chicago | Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers | |
| 12/13 | Stein, Carolyn | Stanford | Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/1 | UW-Madison | Wages, Task Type Amenity, and Job Mobility | |
| 3/15 | UW-Madison | How Transferable are Skills Between Two Time Periods? Labor Market Outcomes After an Occupational Skill Shock | |
| 3/24 | Chicago Booth |
Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam (with Tomas Dominguez-Iino) |
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| 3/29 | UW-Madison | Student Loan Repayment Plans and Post-College Labor Market Outcomes | |
| 4/5 | UW-Madison | Family Resources and Human Capital in Economic Downturns | |
| 4/12 | UW-Madison | How Risk Aversion Impacts College Graduates' Search Behavior | |
| 4/19 | UW-Madison | Minimum Wage Effect on Firm Capital Choice | |
| 4/26 | Stanford | ||
| 5/3 | UW-Madison | Spousal Hours of Work and Work Hour Regulations: evidence from work hour regulations in South Korea |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/28 | UW-Madison | Time Investment Responses of Parents and Students to School Inputs | |
| 10/12 | UW-Madison | Dual-Earner Migration, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance | |
| 10/19 | UW-Madison | Pricing, Income and College Major Choice | |
| 11/16 | UW-Madison | Human Capital Accumulation and Choice of Marriage : Role of Effort Choice in Marriage Premium | |
| 11/30 | UW-Madison | Signals and human capital in admission tournament |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/2 | Duke | Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions | |
| 3/9 | Meng-Chien Su | UW-Madison | Taste-Based Discrimination against Sexual Orientation: An Equilibrium Search Model with Bargaining and Private Information |
| 3/23 | Jane Liu | UW-Madison | |
| 3/30 | UC-Berkeley | ||
| 4/6 | Penn | ||
| 4/13 | Youngjae Hwang | UW-Madison | |
| 4/27 | Stanford | ||
| 5/4 | Cambridge |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/9 | UW-Madison | Geographic Mobility Among Youths and Spatial Gap in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities | |
| 9/16 | Havard | College Aid, College Completion, and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Trial | |
| 9/23 | Stanford | Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages | |
| 9/30 | UW-Madison | Side Hustles: Non-Wage Job Characteristics and Dual Job Holding | |
| 10/7 | Queen's University | ||
| 10/14 | UW-Madison | Heterogeneous Skill Growth, Task Distance, and Wages | |
| 10/21 | Western Ontario | Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Reimbursements for Dialysis Drugs | |
| 11/4 | Aarhus University | Health at Work? Evidence from a Social Experiment Evaluation of a Firm-based Wellness Program | |
| 11/11 | Duke | ||
| 11/18 | University of British Columbia | The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles: Causal Evidence from the German Unification | |
| 11/25 | UW-Madison | An Empirical Framework of School Choice and Location Choice | |
| 12/9 | UW-Madison | Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility | |
| 12/16 | UC-Berkeley | Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/8 | Richmond FRB | Couples’ and Singles’ Savings after Retirement | |
| 4/22 | FRB San Francisco | Search Demand Effects on Equilibrium Unemployment and a Wage Phillips Curve | |
| 4/29 | UW-Madison | On Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wages and Employment Mobility: Evidence from Danish Register Data |