IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics
Program
Thursday, June 12
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome
Session A: Behavioral Labor I
09:15 - 09:40
Ishaana Talesara (MIT), Lukas Lehner (University of Edinburgh), Arthur Wickard (MIT)
"The Employment Risk Perceptions of Job Seekers"
09:40 - 10:05
Malte Jacob Rattenborg (University of Copenhagen)
"Misguided Job Search"
10:05 - 10:30
Simon Cordes (Bonn Graduate School of Economics and IZA), Max Müller (University of Bonn)
"Do Firms Know What Workers Want?"
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee Break
Session B: Labor - Personnel
11:15 - 11:40
Deborah Doukas (Cornell University), Collin Raymond (Cornell University), Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)
"Rank vs Money: Evidence from Managers"
11:40 - 12:05
Calvin Jahnke (Princeton University), Gábor Nyéki (Princeton University), Carolyn Tsao (Princeton University)
"Manager Feedback Style and Worker Productivity"
12:05 - 12:30
Valentin Kecht (Bonn Graduate School of Economics)
"-- to be announced --"
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Session C: Behavioral Foundations
14:00 - 14:25
Vanessa Sticher (MIT), Elaine Shen (UC Berkeley)
"Overconfidence and Information Seeking: Implications for Decision-Making"
14:25 - 14:50
Gonzalo Arrieta (University of Zurich), Maxim Bakhtin (Analysis Group, San Francisco)
"The Inference Cost of Policies"
14:50 - 15:15
Paul Grass (University of Bonn), Milena Jessen (University of Bonn)
"Subjective Beliefs and the Salience of Consequences"
15:15 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15
Keynote
Sydnee Caldwell (UC Berkeley)
"-- to be announced --"
19:00
Dinner
Friday, June 13
Session D: Labor - Search
09:00 - 09:25
Johanna Roth (Sciences Po), Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD and IZA), Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD)
"Soft Skills, Unemployment and Job Search"
09:25 - 09:50
09:50 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15
Keynote
Christopher Roth (University of Cologne)
"-- to be announced --"
12:15 - 13:45
Lunch
Session E: Behavioral Labor II
13:45 - 14:10
Alexandra Schubert (University of Zurich), Jenny Wang (MIT)
"Self-Detrimental Avoidance of Rest"
14:10 - 14:35
Carl Meyer (Stanford University), Nina Buchmann (Yale University), Colin D. Sullivan (University of Pittsburgh)
"Paternalistic Discrimination"
14:35 - 15:00
Moritz May (University of Bonn), Luca Michels (University of Bonn)
"Perceived Self-Insurance"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
Session F: Labor - Gender
15:30 - 15:55
15:55 - 16:20
Amen Jalal (LSE)
"Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads"
16:20 - 16:45
Giacomo Marcolin (Northwestern University), Andrea Di Giovan Paolo (Northwestern University)
"The Role of Pregnancy in Gender Discrimination: Evidence from the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978"
16:45 - 17:00
Closing Remarks
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