11th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists

Thursday, May 31:

12:00	-	14:00		Open Lunch
				Session A: Migration
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
14:00	-	14:40		Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
				"Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration"
14:40	-	15:20		Brian C. Cadena (University of Colorado), Brian Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
				"Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Labor Market Adjustment Following the U.S. Housing Bust"
15:20	-	16:00		Thomas K. Bauer (RWI), Sebastian Braun (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Michael Kvasnicka (RWI and IZA)
				"The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany"
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
				Session B: Natural Experiments and Regression Discontinuities
				Chair: John C. Ham (University of Maryland)
16:30	-	17:10		Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota), Michelle Chen (Florida International University), David Grabowski (Harvard University), Robert Town (University of Pennsylvania)
				"Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality, and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes"
17:50	-	18:30		Jason M. Lindo (University of Oregon), Alan Barreca (Tulane University), Glen Waddell (University of Oregon and IZA)
				"Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs"
19:00				Dinner

Friday, June 01:

				Session C: Jobs and Job Search
				Chair: W. Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia)
08:30	-	09:10		Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Francesco Devicienti (University of Turin)
				"Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting"
09:10	-	09:50		Patrick Arni (IZA), Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne and IZA), Gerard van den Berg (University of Mannheim and IZA)
				"Carrots & Sticks – Do Public Employment Service Policy Mixes Matter for Job Seekers' Post-Unemployment Earnings?"
09:50	-	10:30		Ioana E. Marinescu (University of Chicago)
				"Online Job Search and Unemployment Insurance During the Great Recession"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Session D: Employers
				Chair: Paul Oyer (Stanford University)
11:00	-	11:40		Jennifer Brown (Northwestern University), Dylan Minor (Northwestern University)
				"Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments"
11:40	-	12:20		Brian Bell (London School of Economics), John van Reenen (London School of Economics)
				"Firm Performance and Wages: Evidence from Across the Corporate Hierarchy"
12:20	-	13:00		Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University), Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University and IZA), Fabiano Schivardi (University of Cagliari)
				"Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Firm Performance and Gender Gaps in Wages and Promotions"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session E: Education and Training
				Chair: William R. Johnson (University of Virginia)
14:00	-	14:40		W. Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia), David A. Green (University of British Columbia)
				"Understanding Educational Impacts: The Role of Literacy and Numeracy Skills"
14:50	-	15:20		Paul Oyer (Stanford University), Camelia Kuhnen (Northwestern University)
				"Exploration for Human Capital: Theory and Evidence from the MBA Labor Market"
15:20	-	16:00		John C. Ham (University of Maryland), Edward Avol (University of Southern California), Jacqueline S. Zweig (University of Southern California)
				"Pollution, Test Scores and the Distribution of Academic Achievement: Evidence from California Schools 2002-2008"
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
				Session F: Labor Supply and Time Use
				Chair: Patrick Arni (IZA)
16:30	-	17:10		William R. Johnson (University of Virginia)
				"House Prices and Female Labor Force Participation"
17:10	-	17:50		Jungmin Lee (Sogang University), Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo and IZA), Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin and IZA)
				"The Effects of a Gift of Time"
17:50	-	18:30		Cecilia Machado (Getulio Vargas Foundation), Mariesa Herrmann (Columbia University)
				"Patterns of Selection in Labor Market Participation"
19:15				Dinner

Saturday, June 02:

				Session G: The Family
				Chair: Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
09:00	-	09:40		José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal (University of Zaragoza), Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University and IZA), Alberto Molina (University of Zaragoza and IZA)
				"Racial Intermarriage and Household Production: Are There Compensating Differentials?"
09:40	-	10:20		Silke Anger (DIW Berlin)
				"The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood"
10:20	-	10:50		Coffee Break
10:50	-	11:30		Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA), Natalia Nollenberger (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
				"Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain"
11:30	-	12:10		Robert M. Sauer (University of Bristol)
				"Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?"
12:15	-	13:00		Lunch
				Session H: Programs and Laws
				Chair: Thomas K. Bauer (RWI)
13:00	-	13:40		Colin P. Green (Lancaster University), Maria Navarro Paniagua (Lancaster University)
				"Play Hard, Shirk Hard? The Effect of Bar Hours Regulation on Absence and Health"
13:40	-	14:20		Sylvie Blasco (GAINS, University of Maine), Francois Fontaine (University of Nancy 2 and IZA)
				"A Structural Model of the Unemployment Insurance Take-Up"
14:20	-	15:00		Erzo F.P. Luttmer (Dartmouth College), Lex Borghans (Maastricht University and IZA), Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam and IZA)
				"Social Support Substitution and Labor Supply Shifting: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform"
15:15				Social Program
19:30				Dinner at Conference Center

Sunday, June 03:

				Departure after Breakfast