The Structural Microeconomics Conference brings together economists working with structural methods to share ideas, discuss common challenges, and foster new collaborations.
The first two editions of the conference were held as organized sessions at the annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association. Starting in 2025, the conference is held at host institutions. The third edition will be held at Duke University on November 21–22, 2025.
For any questions, including signing up to our email list, contact us at structuralmicro@gmail.com.
Organizers: Peter Arcidiacono, Attila Gyetvai, Yujung Hwang, Pengpeng Xiao
9–10:30am
Session 1. Human Capital and Public Policy
Ronni Pavan (Rochester): "Human Capital Accumulation in the Workplace" (with Nate Baum-Snow, Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, and Josh Kinsler)
Weilong Zhang (Cambridge): "Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings: Understanding the Mechanisms" (with Uta Bolt, Eric French, Varun Warrier, and Qianyu Yang)
Andrew Jordan (WUSTL): "The Heterogeneous Effects of Optional Oversight: Evidence from Police Body-Worn Cameras" (with Taeho Kim, Soumendra Lahiri, Christopher Lucas, and Kyle Rozema)
10:30–11am: coffee break
11am–12:30pm
Session 2. Search and Matching
Elena Pastorino (Stanford): "Revisiting the Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act" (with Jeremy Lise and Luigi Pistaferri)
Chris Flinn (NYU): "Labor Market Fusion: An Application to the Minimum Wage" (with Cristian Bartolucci and Ozde Ozyaka)
Attila Gyetvai (Florida): "The Option Value of Occupations"
12:30–2pm: lunch
2–3:30pm
Session 3. Health
Nirav Mehta (Western Ontario): "Optimal Contracting with Multitasking Agents" (with Seth Richards-Shubik)
Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern): "Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark" (with Martin Hackmann, Adam Kapor, Sofia Moroni, and Anne Brink Nandrup)
Robert Millard (Stony Brook): "Estimating the Process of Health Formation in Older Adults: The Roles of Physical Functioning, Cognition, and Mental Health" (with Steve Stern)
3:30–4pm: coffee break
4–5:40pm
Session 4. Job Market Candidates
Andrea Franco (Wisconsin–Madison): "School or Crime: A Teenager's Choice" (with Christian Posso)
Jiwon Lee (NYU): "The Gendered Effects of Children on Household Relocation"
Daniel Gold (Wisconsin–Madison): "Regulatory Hurdles and Costly Delay in Housing Development"
Zach Weingarten (UPenn): "High School Admissions Policies in Equilibrium" (with Sherrie Cheng)
6:30pm: conference dinner
9–10:30am (parallel)
Session 5A. Family
Giulia Tura (LUISS): "Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy" (with Alberto Bisin)
Jim Albrecht & Susan Vroman (Georgetown): "Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change" (with Per-Anders Edin, Raquel Fernandez, Jiwon Lee, and Peter Thoursie)
Zhixiu Yu (Louisiana State): "Women at the Helm: Marital Sorting, Social Security, and Retirement Behaviors of Married Women" (with Siha Lee)
9–10:30am (parallel)
Session 5B. Methods
William Jungerman (UNC): "Learning on the Job" (with Jacob Adenbaum and Fil Babalievsky)
Brent Hickman (WUSTL): "Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Analysis" (with Christopher Cotton, John List, Joseph Price, and Sutanuka Roy)
Minji Bang (Cambridge): "Estimating a Time Allocation and Information Acquisition Model Using Revealed and Stated Preference Data" (with Holger Sieg)
10:30–11am: coffee break
11am–12:30pm (parallel)
Session 6A. Geography and Mobility
Joan Llull (IAE–CSIC & BSE): "Selective Immigration Policies and the U.S. Labor Market"
Giacomo Battiston (Rockwool Foundation): "Endogenous Migration Routes" (with Jerome Adda)
Davide Alonzo (Montreal): "Marrying Your Job: Matching and Mobility with Geographic Heterogeneity"
11am–12:30pm (parallel)
Session 6B. Children and the Household
Garrett Anstreicher (Nebraska–Lincoln): "To Grandmother’s House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility" (with Joanna Venator)
Daniel Haanwinckel (UCLA): "Taxation and Household Decisions: an Intertemporal Analysis" (with Mary Ann Bronson and Maurizio Mazzocco)
Olivier De Groote (Toulouse): "Matching Disadvantaged Children to Day Care: Evidence from a Centralized Platform" (with Minyoung Rho)
12:30–2pm: lunch
2–3:30pm (parallel)
Session 7A. Labor Markets
Francesco Agostinelli (UPenn): "Employment Relationships, Wage Setting, and Labor Market Power" (with Domenico Ferraro, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Leonard Treuren)
Benjamin Scuderi (Michigan):" Market Definition Bias in Studies of (Labor) Market Power" (with Jamie Fogel and Bernardo Modenesi)
Samuel Solomon (Temple): "Occupational Choice and Social Mobility"
2–3:30pm (parallel)
Session 7B. Housing
Thomas Jorgensen (U Copenhagen): "Housing Assistance, Family Dynamics and Labor Supply of Men and Women" (with Ning Zhang)
Diego Daruich (U Southern California): "Zoning Out Opportunities: Exploring the Child Development Impact of Zoning Laws"
Aradhya Sood (U Toronto): "Segregation by Choice? Separating Preferences from Restrictions in Housing Markets" (with Milena Almagro)
Francesco Agostinelli (UPenn)
Jim Albrecht (Georgetown)
Davide Alonzo (Montreal)
Garrett Anstreicher (Nebraska–Lincoln)
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke)
Minji Bang (Cambridge)
Giacomo Battiston (Rockwool Foundation)
Suzanne Bellue (CREST–ENSAE)
Julie Bennett (Duke)
Andrew Capron (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Flavio Cunha (Rice)
Diego Daruich (U Southern California)
Michael Dinerstein (Duke)
Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke)
Tim Ederer (Carnegie Mellon)
Anaïs Fabre (LMU Munich)
Gianna Fenaroli (Duke)
Chris Flinn (NYU)
Andrea Franco (Wisconsin–Madison)
Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern)
Daniel Gold (Wisconsin–Madison)
Qing Gong (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Olivier De Groote (Toulouse)
Jane Fruehwirth (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Chao Fu (Wisconsin–Madison)
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (Chicago Fed)
Attila Gyetvai (Florida)
Daniel Haanwinckel (UCLA)
Brent Hickman (WUSTL)
Andrés Hincapié (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Yujung Hwang (Johns Hopkins)
Yusuke Ishihata (Duke)
Andrew Jordan (WUSTL)
Thomas Jorgensen (Copenhagen)
William Jungerman (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Ami Ko (Georgetown)
Tomas Larroucau (Arizona State)
Jiwon Lee (NYU)
Joan Llull (IAE–CSIC and BSE)
Zhangchi Ma (Duke)
Matt Masten (Duke)
Arnaud Maurel (Duke)
Costas Meghir (Yale)
Nirav Mehta (Western)
Robert Millard (Stony Brook)
Carolina Nour (Duke)
Juan Pantano (Hong Kong)
Elena Pastorino (Stanford)
Ronni Pavan (Rochester)
Pablo Picardo (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Heleen Ren (Duke)
Belicia Rodriguez (Duke)
Benjamin Scuderi (Michigan)
John Singleton (Rochester)
Samuel Solomon (Temple)
Aradhya Sood (U Toronto)
Kaio Torres Dias (Duke)
Giulia Tura (LUISS)
Sofia Valdivia (Duke)
Susan Vroman (Georgetown)
Christopher Walker (Duke)
Yangfan Wang (Duke)
Jiayuan Wang (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Zach Weingarten (UPenn)
Runling Wu (Duke)
Xuyang Xia (Duke)
Pengpeng Xiao (Duke)
Zhixiu Yu (Louisiana State)
Chuan Yu (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Kiyong Yun (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Weilong Zhang (Cambridge)
Yue Zhang (UNC–Chapel Hill)