Important note:
The Labor Economics Workshop meets Mondays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Sciences
| 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 |