Nebraska Labor Summit

Nebraska Labor Summit

Nebraska Labor Summit

The University of Nebraska Department of Economics will host the 2026 Nebraska Labor Summit at the College of Business in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday, March 13, 2026. The summit will focus on empirical research in labor economics and closely related fields.

Friday, March 13, 2026
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Howard L. Hawks Hall, 730 N. 14th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska

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2025 Keynote Speaker

Martha Bailey
Martha Bailey

Professor of Economics, UCLA

Martha Bailey is a Professor of Economics and Director of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. Her research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within the long-run perspective of economic history. She is an expert on the economic consequences of War on Poverty programs and directs the LIFE-M project, which links millions of vital records with census data for the early 20th century U.S., and the M-CARE study, which evaluates how more affordable contraception affects the lives of Americans. In 2022, she was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for furthering the status of women in the economics profession. She has served as an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review.

Mas Alexandre
Alexandre Mas

Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Alexandre Mas is a Professor of Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His research on the economics of the labor market has focused on alternative work arrangements, productivity spillovers in the workplace, fairness considerations and norms around pay setting, pay transparency, unemployment, unions, and the effects of credit market disruptions. He served as associate director for economic policy and chief economist at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President from 2010-2011, and as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2009-2010. His awards include the IZA Young Labor Economist Award and Princeton University’s Albert Rees Prize in 2009. He is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Labor Studies program.

2026 Agenda

Program Committee: Rebecca Jack, Daniel Tannenbaum, Brenden Timpe

Agenda Coming Soon

Previous Agendas

2023 Agenda
Thursday, April 13
7-9 p.m.Pre-conference Reception
Bin 105 | 105 N 18th Street | Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, April 14
8 a.m.Breakfast and Check-In
(UNL College of Business | Howard L. Hawks Hall | 730 N. 14th Street | Lincoln, Nebraska)
8:30 a.m.Welcome HLH 018
8:40 a.m.Keynote Address HLH 018
Anna Aizer (Brown University), “Health and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status”
Anna Aizer is the Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics at Brown University. She is a labor and health economist with interests in the area of child health and well-being. She is also co-director of the NBER's program on Children and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Resources. Her current work considers the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In particular, she focuses on the roles played by health insurance and access to medical care, domestic violence, exposure to environmental toxins, the role of stress, discrimination in the labor market, job training and poor children's greater interaction with the juvenile justice system in explaining why the children of poor mothers are more likely to grow up to be poor themselves.
9:30 a.m.Break
9:45 a.m.

Session I: HLH 018
30-Minute Presentations
 

  • Amelia Hawkins (Brandeis University), “The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income”
  • Bryan Stuart (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), “The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement”
  • Briana Ballis (University of California, Merced), “Does Poor Health Widen Racial Disparities in Childhood and Adulthood?”

8-Minute "Flash" Talks
 

  • Rebecca Jack (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids”
  • Eric Nielsen (Federal Reserve Board), “The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching”
  • So Yoon Ahn (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Spousal Bargaining Power and Consumption of Married Couples in the US: Evidence from Scanner Data”
11:45 a.m.Lunch
Box lunches in Atrium
12:10 p.m.Keynote Address In Atrium
Christopher Walters (University of California, Berkeley), “Using Correspondence Experiments to Measure Employer-Specific Discrimination”
Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Affiliate at the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), an affiliate of J-PAL North America, and a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and associate editor of the Journal of Political Economy. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination.
1 p.m.Break
1:15 p.m.

Session II: HLH 018
30-Minute Presentations
 

  • Yotam Shem-Tov (UCLA), “How Replaceable is a Low-Wage Job?”
  • Joanna Venator (Boston College), “Dual-Earner Migration Decisions, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance”
  • Garrett Anstreicher (University of Wisconsin), “To Grandmother’s House We Go: Childcare Time Transfers and Female Labor Mobility”

8-Minute "Flash" Talks
 

  • Elena Falcettoni (Federal Reserve Board), “The Determinants of Physicians’ Location Choice: Understanding the Rural Shortage”
  • Jacob Bastian (Rutgers University), “Does Working Cause Women to Vote Less and Become More Politically Conservative?”
  • Matthew Staiger (Opportunity Insights, Harvard University), “The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers”
3:15 p.m.Break
3:30 p.m.

Session III: HLH 018
30-Minute Presentations
 

  • Elizabeth Luh (University of Michigan), “Criminal Court Fees, Earnings, and Expenditures: A Multi-state RD Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data”
  • Andrew Simon (University of Chicago), “Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?”
  • Andrew Garin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Regional Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II”

8-Minute "Flash" Talks
 

  • Samuel Young (Census Bureau/Arizona State University), “Unionization, Employer Opposition, and Establishment Closure”
  • Tania Barham (CU Boulder), “The Benefits of Subsidized Employment: How and for Whom?”
  • Yifan Gong (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “The Role of Non-Pecuniary Considerations: Location Decisions of College Graduates from Low Income Backgrounds”
5:30 p.m.Conclude, Depart for Reception at the Sheldon Museum of Art
UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska
Heavy hors d’oeuvres | Hosted bar with beer and wine
2024 Agenda
Thursday, May 9
7-9 p.m.Pre-conference Happy Hour Bin 105, 105 N 8th Street #100
Friday, May 10
8 a.m.Breakfast and Check-In
(UNL College of Business | Howard L. Hawks Hall | 730 N. 14th Street | Lincoln, Nebraska)
8:25 a.m.Welcome HLH 202
8:30 a.m.

Session 1 HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Matthew Notowidigdo (Chicago Booth), “Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare”
  • Victoria Barone (Notre Dame), “On the Design of Paid Sick Leave: A Structural Approach”
  • Emilia Brito (Brown), “The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Emilie Jackson (Michigan State), “Effects of Unemployment Insurance for Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Workers”
  • Daniel Tannenbaum (Nebraska), “The Effects of Eviction on Children”
10:20 a.m.Break
10:35 a.m.

Session 2: HLH 0202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Jamie Fogel (Opportunity Insights), “What is a Labor Market? Classifying Workers and Jobs Using Network Theory”
  • Neil Cholli (Cornell), “Does ‘Welfare-to-Work’ Work? Evaluating Long-Run Effects Across a Generation of Cohorts”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Fed), “Quantifying the Role of Bureaucratic Choices in Mid-Century Welfare Caseload Trends Using Flow Data”
  • Will Cockriel (Chicago Booth), “Machines Eatings Men: Shoemakers and their Children After the McKay Stitcher”
  • Jennifer Mayo (Missouri), “Rags to Rags: The Intergenerational Effects of the 1834 Poor Law”
12:05 p.m.Lunch
Henrickson Family Atrium
12:30 p.m.Keynote Address Henrickson Family Atrium
David Card (University of California, Berkeley), The Role of Firms in the Labor Market. Where Are We Now?
 
1:15 p.m.Break
1:40 p.m.

Session 3: HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Zachary Bleemer (Princeton), “Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900”
  • Na’ama Shenhav (San Francisco Fed), “Multigenerational Benefits of Women’s Education”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Dmitri Koustas (Chicago Harris), “Consumption and Employment Responses to Beliefs about Student Loan Forgiveness and Repayment”
  • Michael Ricks (Nebraska), “Strategic Selection Around Policy Recommendations: The Case of Kindergarten Entry”
3 p.m.Break
3:15 p.m.

Session 4: HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Francesca Truffa (Stanford GSB), “Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students”
  • Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young), “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Fernanda Rojas (Wisconsin), “Who Benefits from a Maternity Leave Extension? Evidence from Chile”
  • Ariel J. Binder (Census), “The Gender Pay Gap and its Determinants across the Human Capital Distribution”
4:35 p.m.Break
4:45 p.m.Keynote Address HLH 202
Alessandra Voena (Stanford), How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
5:30 p.m.Conclude, Depart for Reception at the Sheldon Museum of Art
UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska
Heavy hors d’oeuvres | Hosted bar with beer and wine
2025 Agenda
March 27, 2025
7-9 p.m.Pre-conference Happy Hour Bin 105, 105 N 8th Street #100
March 28, 2025
8 a.m.Breakfast and Check-In
(UNL College of Business | Howard L. Hawks Hall | 730 N. 14th Street | Lincoln, Nebraska)
8:20 a.m.

Welcome HLH 204

  • Kathy Farrell, James Jr. and Susan Stuart Endowed Dean and Professor of Finance for the College of Business
8:30 a.m.

Keynote Address HLH 204

  • Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin
9:15 a.m.Break
9:45 a.m.

Session 1: HLH 204
30-minute presentations
 

  • Matthew Notowidigdo (Chicago Booth), “Fungibility and Health: Evidence from Cash Transfers and SNAP”
  • Mallika Thomas (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), “Effects of Peer Groups on the Gender-Wage Gap and Life after the MBA: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers”
  • Ben Scuderi (Michigan), “Spinning the Wheel: Heterogeneity and Choice in the Provision of Indigent Defense”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Riley Wilson (BYU), “Short and Long Run Maternal Human Capital Investment Responses to Publicly Provided Schooling”
  • Aviv Caspi (Stanford), “Legal Assistance for Evictions: Impacts, Mechanisms, and Demand”
  • Qquillaccori Garcia Lopez (Norwegian School of Economics), “Closing the Gender Gap in Pensions? Pension Accrual for Unpaid Care Work and Household Behavior After Retirement”
11:45 a.m.Lunch
Henrickson Family Atrium
12:15 p.m.

Keynote Address Henrickson Family Atrium

  • Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
1 p.m.Break
1:30 p.m.

Session 2: HLH 204
30-minute presentations
 

  • Raffaele Saggio (UBC), “Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data”
  • Alice Wu (Wisconsin), “The Labor Market Signaling Value of Open Source Contributions”
  • Nicola Bianchi (Northwestern), “One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Francesca Truffa (Michigan), “The Entrepreneurial Gender Gap: The Role of Motherhood”
  • Jason Sockin (Cornell), “Interviews”
3:20 p.m.Break
3:50 p.m.

Session 3: HLH 204
30-minute presentations
 

  • Menaka Hampole (Yale), “Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments”
  • Chloe Gibbs (Notre Dame), “Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Thomas Helgerman (Minnesota), “Health Womanpower: The Role of Federal Policy in Women’s Entry into Medicine”
  • Siobhan O’Keefe (Davidson College), “The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start on Infant Health”
  • Garrett Anstreicher (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), “Family Resources and Human Capital in the Great Recession”
5:20 p.m.Conclude, Depart for Reception at the Sheldon Museum of Art
UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska
Heavy hors d’oeuvres | Hosted bar with beer and wine
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Hotel

Lincoln offers a variety of hotels within walking distance of the College of Business. The closest hotels are in the Haymarket district or downtown Lincoln. 

Air Travel

Destination: Lincoln Municipal Airport (LNK)

Destination: Omaha Municipal Airport (OMA)
About 65 miles from campus or around an hour drive. Here are some options for getting from OMA to your visit in Lincoln:

  • Car Rental
  • OMALiNK: Arrange for a shuttle van to pick you up when you arrive at the airport and take you directly to campus. Prices vary.
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