Keynote Speaker

Conference Schedule

• 8:30 – 8:55 : Coffee and pastries

• 8:55 – 9:00 : Welcome

• 9:00 – 10:30: Session 1

  • Ezgi Cengiz (NCSU): "How effective are voluntary agreements to offer healthier products? Evidence from sodium content" (draft)

  • Rob Garlick (Duke): "Why don't jobseekers search more?  Barriers and returns to search on a job matching platform" (draft)

  • Jacob Kohlhepp (UNC): "Workplace Injury and Labor Supply within an Organization" (draft)

• 10:30 – 10:45: Break

• 10:45 – 12:00: Keynote

  • Matthew Wiswall: "An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education"

• 12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

• 1:15 – 2:15: Session 2

  • Melanie Wallskog (Duke): "Are Immigrant Entrepreneurs Magnets for Foreign Investors?"

  • Andrés Hincapié (UNC): "The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave Policies: Exploiting Forty Years of Variation in the U.S." (slides)

• 2:15 – 2:30: Break

• 2:30 – 3:30: Session 3

  • Adriana Corredor Waldron (NCSU): "Drivers of Racial Differences in Unnecessary C-Sections"

  • Arkadev Ghosh (Duke): "Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India" (draft)

• 3:30 – 3:45: Break 

• 3:45 – 4:45: Session 4

  • Noah Lyman (UNC): "Reputation, Entrenchment, and Dynamic Managerial Incentives" (draft)

  • JoonYup Park (Duke): “Paying More to Landlords: Housing Vouchers, Housing Markets, and Residential Equilibrium”

  • Katsuhiko Nishiyama (UNC): "Medical Debt, Self-Insurance, and The Value of Health Insurance for the Non-Elderly" (slides)

• 4:45 – 6:00: Break

• 6:00: Dinner

Organizers:

Melinda Morrill (msmorril@ncsu.edu)

Adriana Corredor-Waldron (amcorred@ncsu.edu)

Andrés Hincapié (andres.hincapie@unc.edu)

Pengpeng Xiao (pengpeng.xiao@duke.edu)