Keynote Speakers

Conference Schedule

• 9:00- 9:25: Breakfast

• 9:25 - 9:30: Welcome

• 9:30 - 11:00: Session 1

  • Luca Flabbi (UNC): "Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments" (with Matteo Bobba and Santiago Levy)

  • Xian Jiang (Duke): "Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China's VAT Reform" (with Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato and Daniel Yi Xu)

  • Raymond Guiteras (NC State): "Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh" (with James Levinsohn and Mushfiq Mobarak)

• 11:00- 11:15: Break

• 11:15 - 12:00: Keynote 1

  • Costas Meghir (Yale): "Early Childhood Development: Interventions and Mechanisms"

• 12:00- 12:45: Lunch at Parker and Otis

• 12:45-2:15: Session 2

  • Hugh Macartney (Duke): "Economic Shocks and Worker Inequality: Lessons
    from the Great Recession" (with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez)

  • Jane Cooley Fruehwirth (UNC): "Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition" (with Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter)

  • Maria Zhu (Duke): "Job Networks through College Classmates: Effects of Referrals for Men and Women"

• 2:15 -2:25: Break

• 2:25 -3:10: Keynote 2

  • Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania): "Incorporating Personality Traits into Economic Models of Education and Labor Supply"

• 3:10-3:20: Break

• 3:20-4:50: Session 3

  • Bocar A. Ba (Duke): "The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago" (with Roman G. Rivera)

  • Sarah Komisarow (Duke Sanford): "Getting on Track Outside of School: Evidence from StudentU"

  • Zachary Mozenter (UNC): "Easy as A-B-C: The Effects of Teacher Grading Standards on Student Outcomes"

• 4:50: Adjourn

• 6: Dinner at Rue Cler

Organizers:

Andrés Hincapié (UNC)

Arnaud Maurel (Duke)

Melinda Morrill (NC State)