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Thursday, May 12, 2022

 

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

 

Welcome Reception
The Bear Public House
Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center
Washington University in St. Louis

 

Friday, May 13, 2022


Session 1:  Labor Markets and Health

Chair:  Yuri Tserlukevich
 

 

9:00 am – 9:40 am

 

Paper 1:  For Better or Worse?  The Economic Implications of Paid Sick Leave Mandates

Presenter:  Paige Ouimet, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill

Turk Al-Sabah, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill

Discussant:  Jonathan Cohn, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

9:40 am – 10:20 am

Paper 2:  How Do Acquisitions Affect the Mental Health of Employees?

Presenter:  Ramin P. Baghai, Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, ECGI

Marieke Bos, Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Visiting Scholar)

Rui C. Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics, CEPR

Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School, Paris

Discussant:  Geoffrey Tate, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park

10:20 am – 10:50 am

Break


Session 2: Selection in Labor Markets

Chair:  Thomas Rauter, Chicago Booth
 

 

10:50 am – 11:30 am

Paper 1:  The Part-Time Productivity Gap:  Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Recruitment Drive

Presenter:  Hyunseob Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

John Y. Zhu, University of Kansas

Discussant:  Elena Simintzi, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC - Chapel Hill and CEPR

11:30 am - 12:10 pm

Paper 2:  Treatment and Selection Effects of Formal Workplace Mentorship Programs

Presenter:  Jason Sandvik, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Richard Saouma, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

Nathan Seegert, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah

Christopher Stanton, Harvard Business School and NBER

Discussant:  Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University

12:10 pm – 1:40 pm

Lunch

Anheuser Busch Dining Room, 3rd Floor
Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center


Session 3: Politics and Culture

Chair:  TBD

 

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm

Paper 1:  Politics at Work

Presenter:  Emanuele Colonnelli, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

Valdemar Pinho Neto, Center for Empirical Studies in Economics, Brazilian School of Economics and Finance

Edoardo Teso, Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management and CEPR

Discussant:  Dimas Fazio, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School

2:20 pm – 3:00 pm

Paper 2:  Owner Culture and Pay Inequality Within Firms

Presenter:  Jan Bena, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Guangli Lu, School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Iris Wang, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Discussant:  Jillian Grennan, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break


Session 4:  Gig-economy and Labor Share

Chair:  TBD
 

 

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm

 

Paper 1:  Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy:  Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns

Presenter:  Spyridon Lagaras, University of Pittsburgh

Matthew Denes, Carnegie Mellon University

Margarita Tsoutsoura, Cornell University, CEPR, ECGI, and NBER

Discussant:  David Sovich, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky

4:10 pm – 4:50 pm

Paper 2:  Eclipse of Rent-Sharing:  The Effects of Managerial Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the U.S. and Denmark

Speaker:  Alex Xi He, University of Maryland

Daron Acemoglu, MIT

Daniel le Maire, University of Copenhagen

Discussant:  Simcha Barkai, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

4:50 pm

Conference Adjourns

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Dinner at Oceano Bistro

44 North Brentwood Boulevard
Clayton, MO 63105

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