Education, Labor Market Outcomes, and Inequality

This conference will feature frontier research on education and labor markets. It will focus on how human capital development prior to entering the labor market affects the short-run and the long-run outcomes of individuals and groups. The presentations and discussions will provide insights into the sources of inequality and implications for labor market outcomes.

Program organizers are Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Anusha Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Event Details

November 30 – December 1, 2023

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Event Agenda

Thursday, November 30
12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. CT	Lunch
1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CT	Opening remarks Andrea Raffo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. CT	Racial and Gender Differences in School-College-Career Paths Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Alessia Leibert, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development; Anusha Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (presenter)
2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT	Complementarities in High School and College Investments John Eric Humphries, Yale University; Juanna Schrøter Joensen, University of Chicago (presenter);* Gregory F. Veramendi, Royal Holloway, University of London*
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT	Coffee break
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CT	The Returns to College Major Choice: Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability Rodney J. Andrews, University of Texas at Dallas; Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University; Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University; Kevin Stange, University of Michigan (presenter)
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT	Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps *Christopher Flinn, New York University (presenter);* Petra E. Todd, University of Pennsylvania; Weilong Zhang, University of Cambridge
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CT	Dinner

Friday, December 1
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. CT	Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. CT	Sorting of Students into Colleges: Inefficiencies and Policy Implications Lutz Hendricks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (presenter);* Tatyana Koreshkova, Concordia University*
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CT	College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University; Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University (presenter);* Arnaud Maurel, Duke University; Tyler Ransom, University of Oklahoma*
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. CT	Coffee break
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. CT	It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects *Francesco Agostinelli, University of Pennsylvania (presenter);* Matthias Doepke, London School of Economics; Giuseppe Sorrenti, University of Amsterdam; Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT	A Case for Subsidizing Child Care *Matthew Wiswall, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presenter)*
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CT	Lunch
1:30 p.m. CT	Adjourn

Education, Labor Market Outcomes, and Inequality

Event Details

Event Agenda

Thursday, November 30

Lunch

Opening remarks

Racial and Gender Differences in School-College-Career Paths

Coffee break

Dinner

Friday, December 1

Breakfast

Coffee break

A Case for Subsidizing Child Care

Lunch

Adjourn

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