Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists (NLS-E) 2021

Date
Apr 8Apr 9

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Event Description

The Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists (NLS-E) brings together researchers based in the Northeastern United States and beyond to discuss cutting edge work on labor markets.

Our goal is to build a closer community among junior faculty working on labor economics topics by exchanging ideas related to ongoing projects. The 2-day virtual workshop will include presentations of working papers/work-in-progress related to the following topics:

  • Inequality (technical change, mobility, race, gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ, labor demand)
  • Wage setting and imperfect competition in labor markets (monopsony, bargaining, unemployment)
  • Labor supply (immigration, labor force participation)
  • Human capital (education, health, child development)
  • Labor market institutions (unions, minimum wages, regulation)
  • Other topics in labor economics (crime, program evaluation, etc.)

The NLS-E is sponsored by Princeton's Industrial Relations Section.  Organizers are:

Lorenzo Lagos - In July 2021, I will join the Brown University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics.

Cody Tuttle - In 2021, I will join the Economics department at UT Austin as an assistant professor.

Attendance is by invitation only.

 

 Conference Schedule (presenting author in bold)

Thursday, April 8
Time (ET) Session
8:30am Welcome
9:00am Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers by Ben Hyman, Brian Kovak, and Adam Leive
9:40am Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools by Thomas Breda, Julien Grenet, Marion Monnet, Clémentine Van Effenterre
10:20am Break
10:40am Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Covenants of Minneapolis by Aradhya Sood, William Speagle, and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
11:20am

First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, and Felicitas Schikora

12:00pm Break
1:00pm Does Peer Motivation Impact Educational Investments? Evidence From DACA by Briana Ballis
1:40pm The Effects of Teacher Quality on Criminal Behavior by Evan K. Rose, Jonathan Schellenberg, and Yotam Shem-Tov
2:20pm Break
2:40pm The Geography of Gang Violence by Jesse Bruhn
3:20pm The Pro-Social Motivations of Police Officers by Aaron Chalfin and Felipe Goncalves
4:00pm Break
4:30pm Social Event
5:30pm End of Day

 

Friday, April 9
Time (ET) Session
8:30am Welcome
9:00am The Impact of Benefit Generosity on Workers’ Compensation Claims: Evidence and Implications by Marika Cabral and Marcus Dillender
9:40am The Effects of Layoffs on Opioid Use and Abuse by David J. Price and Peter Rønø Thingholm
10:20am Break
10:40am The Inception of Capitalism through the Lens of Firms by Krisztina Orbán
11:20am job2vec: Learning a Representation of Jobs by Sarah Bana, Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Sebastian Steffen
12:00pm Break
1:00pm Outside Options in the Labor Market by Sydnee Caldwell and Oren Danieli
1:40pm Monopsony, Skills, and Labor Market Concentration by Samuel Dodini, Michael F. Lovenheim, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Alexander Willén
2:20pm Break
2:40pm Minimum Wages and Employment Composition by Ashvin Gandhi and Krista Ruffini
3:20pm Urban Transit Infrastructure: Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Power by Felipe Vial Lecaros, Jorge Perez-Perez, and Román D. Zárate
4:00pm Break
4:30pm Social Event
5:30pm End of Day