Important note:
All Spring 2021 seminars will be hosted on a virtual platform.
Zoom link for Labor Seminars: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93070343446? (Password to be entered on prompt)
The Labor Economics Seminar meets Mondays at 3:45 pm in Room 7142 Social Sciences
3/1
Speaker: Hoyoung Yoo, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Wages, Task Type Amenity, and Job Mobility”
3/15
Speaker: Annemarie Schweinert, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “How Transferable are Skills Between Two Time Periods? Labor Market Outcomes After an Occupational Skill Shock”
3/24 (Please Note : This seminar is on Wednesday)
Speaker: Milena Almagro, Chicago Booth
Presentation Title: “Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam” (with Tomas Dominguez-Iino)
3/29
Speaker: Sharada Dharmasankar, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Student Loan Repayment Plans and Post-College Labor Market Outcomes”
4/5
Speaker: Garrett Anstreicher, UW-Madison
Presentation Title:”Family Resources and Human Capital in Economic Downturns”
4/12
Speaker: Laura Boisten, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “How Risk Aversion Impacts College Graduates’ Search Behavior”
4/19
Speaker: Xinyi Peng, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Minimum Wage Effect on Firm Capital Choice”
4/26
Speaker: Elena Pastorino, Stanford
Presentation Title: “On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages“
5/3
Speaker: Joohyun Lee, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Spousal Hours of Work and Work Hour Regulations: evidence from work hour regulations in South Korea”
09/28: Nico Badaracco, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Time Investment Responses of Parents and Students to School Inputs”
10/12: Joanna Venator, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Dual-Earner Migration, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance”
10/19: Arpita Patnaik, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Pricing, Income and College Major Choice”
11/16: Youngjae Hwang, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “‘Human Capital Accumulation and Choice of Marriage : Role of Effort Choice in Marriage Premium”
11/30: Jingnan Liu, UW-Madison
Presentation Title: “Signals and human capital in admission tournament”
3/2: Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University – “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
Fall 2019
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, “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”
Spring 2019
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”