University of Wisconsin–Madison

Joseph L. Krislov Labor Workshop

Important note:

The Labor Economics Workshop meets Mondays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Science (Morton Room)
Faculty organizer: Chris Taber

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/21	Alexis Smith	UW-Madison	Intergenerational Mobility and Long-Term Care
9/28	Sydnee Caldwell	UC Berkeley	Why Workers Stay: Pay, Beliefs, and Attachment
10/5	Asha Bharwaj	UW-Madison	Constraints on Marriage Timing and Women’s Educational Investment
10/12	Esteban Aucejo	Arizona State	TBA
11/2	Sitian Liu	Queens University	TBA
11/9	Dana Scott	Stony Brook	TBA
11/16	Magne Mogstad	University of Chicago	TBA
11/23	Rafeh Qureshi	UW-Madison	TBA
12/7	Lindsey Raymond	MIT	TBA

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/2	Wilbur Townsend	UC-Berkeley	How Restricting Migrants’ Job Options Affects Both Migrants and Existing Residents
2/9	Oscar Volpe	Harvard	Job Preferences, Labor Market Power, and Inequality
2/23	Anais Fabre	LMU Munich; visiting CMU	The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities
3/2	Florencia Pucci	UW-Madison	Trade-offs in Early Childhood: Parental Choice under Expanded Access to Subsidized Early Childhood Services
3/9	Arnaud Maurel	Duke	Heterogeneity, Uncertainty and Learning: Semiparametric Identification and Estimation
3/23	Daniel Haanwinckel	UCLA	How Do Intermediaries Shape Labor Market Efficiency? An Equilibrium Model and Experimental Evidence
4/13	Weilong Zhang	Cambridge	The DNA of Enterprise: Genetic Endowments and Intergenerational Entrepreneurship
4/20	Hugo Lhuillier	Columbia	The Local Root of Wage Inequality
4/27	Lindsey Raymond *CANCELED	Microsoft/MIT

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/29	Angela Jiang	UW-Madison	Patient Cost-Sharing and the Demand for Post-Acute Care
10/6	Claire Kim	UW-Madison	Incentivizing Effort: Conditional Pocket Money and Adolescent Skill Formation
11/3	Zhiyang Feng	UW-Madison	Where Are You From and What Will You Choose? Career Path and Intergenerational Mobility
11/10	Zach Babat	UW-Madison	The George Floyd Protests and Urban Change.
11/17	Fabien Postel-Vinay	UCL (London)	Changes in the Distribution of Job Characteristics in the US, 2008-Present
11/24	Olivier De Groote	Toulouse	Matching disadvantaged children to day care: Evidence from a centralized platform

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/10	Hanna Wang	UAB	Life-cycle Implications of Childbirth on Women's Job Search and Mobility
2/17	Mike Elsby	University of Edinburgh	Heterogeneous Mobility and Labor Market Equilibrium (tentative--work in progress)
2/24	Satyen Pandita	UW-Madison	Double Trouble: Stigma and the Gender Wage Gap in Shaping Female Employment in India
3/3	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/10	Hadar Avivi	Princeton	One Land, Many Promises: Assessing the Consequences of Unequal Childhood Location Effects
3/17	Guido Menzio	NYU	Efficient Imperfect Competition
3/31	Justin Bloesch	Cornell	Monopsony with Recruiting
4/14	Ryungha Oh	Northwestern	Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms
4/21	Gregor Jarosch	Duke	Wage Fixing
5/5	Raffaele Saggio (CANCELLED)	UBC	Why do unions jobs pay more? New evidence from matched employer-employee data

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/9	Kevin Hunt RESCHEDULED	UW-Madison	RESCHEDULED
9/16	Kevin Hunt	UW-Madison	Long-term Employment Contracts for Earnings and Hours
9/23	Qin Lin	UW-Madison	Childcare Availability During Nonstandard Hours and Household Choices
9/30	Selidji Tossou	UW-Madison	Heterogeneous firm, information friction and workers' dynamics: Evidence from the Labor market in Benin
10/7	Laura Boisten	UW-Madison	Impact of College Major Skills on Lifetime Earnings and Occupational Sorting
10/14	Xinyi Peng	UW-Madison	Internal Meets External: the Role of Promotion in the Labor Market
10/21	Joohyun Lee	UW-Madison	Dynamics of the Gender Gap in Wage Growth Across Parenthood
10/28	Soojeong Jung	UW-Madison	Multidimensional Abilities, Human Capital Accumulation and Wage Growth
11/4	Ryan Mather	UW-Madison	Hometown Labor Markets and Degree Choice
11/11	Maryam Yavas	UW-Madison	Direct Admissions Under Uncertainty
11/18	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
11/25	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
12/2	Derek Neal	University of Chicago	Early Predictors of Racial Disparities In Criminal Justice Involvement
12/9	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/26	Alexis Smith	UW-Madison	Coresidence, Long-Term Care, and the Labor Market
3/4	Asha Bharadwaj	UW-Madison	Age of Marriage and Female Education
3/18	Mary Ann Bronson	Georgetown	Optimal Parental Leave Policy Design
4/8	Virginia Minni	London School of Economics - IFS	Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs
4/9	Jean-Marc Robin	Science Po, Paris	Individual Wage Dynamics, Continuous Firm Types and Path Dependence
4/15	Rebecca Lessem	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper School of Business)	Matching Job Applicants to Vacancies: An Empirical Model
4/22	Francesco Agostinelli	UPenn	Employment Relationship, Wage Setting, and Labor Market Power
4/29	TBD
5/6	TBD

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	Moretti, Enrico	Berkeley	Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption (with R. Diamond)
9/20	Gregory, Victoria	FRB St Louis	The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market
9/27	Mullins, Jo	Univ of Minnesota	A structural meta-analysis of welfare-to-work programs and their impacts on children
10/4	Beemon, Dan	UW-Madison	Job Search, Wage Dispersion, and Universal Healthcare
10/11	Schwarz, Hans	UW-Madison	The Interaction Effects of Subsidized Childcare and Parental Leave Entitlements on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Germany
10/18	Spirovska, Sandra	UW-Madison	Migration opportunities, college enrollment and college major choice
10/25	Hwang, Yujung	Johns-Hopkins	Structural Analysis of Xenophobia
11/1	McMurry, Joel	UW-Madison	Childcare Policy and Informal Care
11/15	Todd, Petra	U-Penn	Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico
11/22	Jung, Soojeong	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	Rose, Evan	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	Hoyoung Yoo	UW-Madison	Wages, Task Type Amenity, and Job Mobility
3/15	Annemarie Schweinert	UW-Madison	How Transferable are Skills Between Two Time Periods? Labor Market Outcomes After an Occupational Skill Shock
3/24	Milena Almagro	Chicago Booth	Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam (with Tomas Dominguez-Iino)
3/29	Sharada Dharmasankar	UW-Madison	Student Loan Repayment Plans and Post-College Labor Market Outcomes
4/5	Garrett Anstreicher	UW-Madison	Family Resources and Human Capital in Economic Downturns
4/12	Laura Boisten	UW-Madison	How Risk Aversion Impacts College Graduates' Search Behavior
4/19	Xinyi Peng	UW-Madison	Minimum Wage Effect on Firm Capital Choice
4/26	Elena Pastorino	Stanford	On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
5/3	Joohyun Lee	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	Nico Badaracco	UW-Madison	Time Investment Responses of Parents and Students to School Inputs
10/12	Joanna Venator	UW-Madison	Dual-Earner Migration, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance
10/19	Arpita Patnaik	UW-Madison	Pricing, Income and College Major Choice
11/16	Youngjae Hwang	UW-Madison	Human Capital Accumulation and Choice of Marriage : Role of Effort Choice in Marriage Premium
11/30	Jingnan Liu	UW-Madison	Signals and human capital in admission tournament

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/2	Peter Arcidiacono	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	Enrico Moretti	UC-Berkeley
4/6	~~Petra Todd~~	Penn	~~Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap~~
4/13	Youngjae Hwang	UW-Madison
4/27	~~Elena Pastorino~~	Stanford
5/4	~~Coen Tuelings~~	Cambridge

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/9	Shoya Ishimaru	UW-Madison	Geographic Mobility Among Youths and Spatial Gap in Local College and Labor Market Opportunities
9/16	Amanda Pallais	Havard	College Aid, College Completion, and the Marginal Cost of a College Degree: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Trial
9/23	Isaac Sorkin	Stanford	Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
9/30	Daniel Beemon	UW-Madison	Side Hustles: Non-Wage Job Characteristics and Dual Job Holding
10/7	Brant Abbott	Queen's University	Permanent-Income Inequality
10/14	John Stromme	UW-Madison	Heterogeneous Skill Growth, Task Distance, and Wages
10/21	Nirav Mehta	Western Ontario	Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Reimbursements for Dialysis Drugs
11/4	Marianne Simonsen	Aarhus University	Health at Work? Evidence from a Social Experiment Evaluation of a Firm-based Wellness Program
11/11	Modibo Sidibe	Duke	Imperfect Information and Centralized School Choice
11/18	Florian Hoffman	University of British Columbia	The Employment Impact of Construction Boom-Bust Cycles: Causal Evidence from the German Unification
11/25	Minseon Park	UW-Madison	An Empirical Framework of School Choice and Location Choice
12/9	Garrett Anstreicher	UW-Madison	Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility
12/16	Sydnee Caldwell	UC-Berkeley	Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
4/8	John Jones	Richmond FRB	Couples’ and Singles’ Savings after Retirement
4/22	Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau	FRB San Francisco	Search Demand Effects on Equilibrium Unemployment and a Wage Phillips Curve
4/29	Rasmus Lentz	UW-Madison	On Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wages and Employment Mobility: Evidence from Danish Register Data