The University of Nebraska Department of Economics will host the 2023 Nebraska Labor Summit on Friday, April 14, 2023. The summit will focus on empirical research in labor economics and closely related fields.
Thursday, April 13
7-9 p.m. Happy Hour (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
8:40 a.m. Keynote: Anna Aizer, Brown University
9:45 a.m. Session I
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
Brianna 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 Earning 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 U.S.: Evidence from Scanner Data
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:10 p.m. Keynote: Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley
1:15 p.m. Session II
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
3:30 p.m. Session III
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?
Daniel Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln | The Effects of Eviction on Children
5:30 p.m. Reception Sheldon Museum of Art (UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska)
Heavy hors d’oeuvres with hosted bar (beer and wine)