Nebraska Labor Summit

Nebraska Labor Summit

The University of Nebraska Department of Economics will host the 2025 Nebraska Labor Summit at the College of Business in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday, March 28, 2025. The summit will focus on empirical research in labor economics and closely related fields.

Friday, May 10, 2024
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Howard L. Hawks Hall, 730 N. 14th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska

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2025 Keynote Speaker

Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein
Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

Jesse Rothstein is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and the David Pierpoint Gardner Chair in Higher Education. He is co-director of the California Policy Lab and director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education. He has previously served as the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at Berkeley.

Marika Cabral
Marika Cabral
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas-Austin

Marika Cabral is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas-Austin and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also a coeditor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research covers a range of topics in health economics and public finance. Much of her research focuses on understanding the role of market failures, the impacts of incentive design, and the consequences of government intervention in health-related insurance markets. She is the 2024 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal, which is given to “an early career economist who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics” by the American Society of Health Economists. In 2019, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

2025 Tentative Agenda

Coming Soon
Program Committee: Rebecca Jack, Daniel Tannenbaum, Brenden Timpe

Previous Agendas

2023 Agenda
Thursday, April 13
7-9 p.m.Pre-conference Reception
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 HLH 018
8:40 a.m.Keynote Address HLH 018
Anna Aizer (Brown University), “Health and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status”
Anna Aizer is the Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics at Brown University. She is a labor and health economist with interests in the area of child health and well-being. She is also co-director of the NBER's program on Children and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Resources. Her current work considers the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In particular, she focuses on the roles played by health insurance and access to medical care, domestic violence, exposure to environmental toxins, the role of stress, discrimination in the labor market, job training and poor children's greater interaction with the juvenile justice system in explaining why the children of poor mothers are more likely to grow up to be poor themselves.
9:30 a.m.Break
9:45 a.m.

Session I: HLH 018
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”
  • Briana 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 Earnings 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 US: Evidence from Scanner Data”
11:45 a.m.Lunch
Box lunches in Atrium
12:10 p.m.Keynote Address In Atrium
Christopher Walters (University of California, Berkeley), “Using Correspondence Experiments to Measure Employer-Specific Discrimination”
Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Affiliate at the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), an affiliate of J-PAL North America, and a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and associate editor of the Journal of Political Economy. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination.
1 p.m.Break
1:15 p.m.

Session II: HLH 018
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”
3:15 p.m.Break
3:30 p.m.

Session III: HLH 018
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?”
  • Yifan Gong (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “The Role of Non-Pecuniary Considerations: Location Decisions of College Graduates from Low Income Backgrounds”
5:30 p.m.Conclude, Depart for Reception at the Sheldon Museum of Art
UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska
Heavy hors d’oeuvres | Hosted bar with beer and wine
2024 Agenda
Thursday, May 9
7-9 p.m.Pre-conference Happy Hour Bin 105, 105 N 8th Street #100
Friday, May 10
8 a.m.Breakfast and Check-In
(UNL College of Business | Howard L. Hawks Hall | 730 N. 14th Street | Lincoln, Nebraska)
8:25 a.m.Welcome HLH 202
8:30 a.m.

Session 1 HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Matthew Notowidigdo (Chicago Booth), “Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare”
  • Victoria Barone (Notre Dame), “On the Design of Paid Sick Leave: A Structural Approach”
  • Emilia Brito (Brown), “The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Emilie Jackson (Michigan State), “Effects of Unemployment Insurance for Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Workers”
  • Daniel Tannenbaum (Nebraska), “The Effects of Eviction on Children”
10:20 a.m.Break
10:35 a.m.

Session 2: HLH 0202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Jamie Fogel (Opportunity Insights), “What is a Labor Market? Classifying Workers and Jobs Using Network Theory”
  • Neil Cholli (Cornell), “Does ‘Welfare-to-Work’ Work? Evaluating Long-Run Effects Across a Generation of Cohorts”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Fed), “Quantifying the Role of Bureaucratic Choices in Mid-Century Welfare Caseload Trends Using Flow Data”
  • Will Cockriel (Chicago Booth), “Machines Eatings Men: Shoemakers and their Children After the McKay Stitcher”
  • Jennifer Mayo (Missouri), “Rags to Rags: The Intergenerational Effects of the 1834 Poor Law”
12:05 p.m.Lunch
Henrickson Family Atrium
12:30 p.m.Keynote Address Henrickson Family Atrium
David Card (University of California, Berkeley), The Role of Firms in the Labor Market. Where Are We Now?
 
1:15 p.m.Break
1:40 p.m.

Session 3: HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Zachary Bleemer (Princeton), “Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900”
  • Na’ama Shenhav (San Francisco Fed), “Multigenerational Benefits of Women’s Education”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Dmitri Koustas (Chicago Harris), “Consumption and Employment Responses to Beliefs about Student Loan Forgiveness and Repayment”
  • Michael Ricks (Nebraska), “Strategic Selection Around Policy Recommendations: The Case of Kindergarten Entry”
3 p.m.Break
3:15 p.m.

Session 4: HLH 202
30-minute presentations
 

  • Francesca Truffa (Stanford GSB), “Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students”
  • Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young), “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement”

9-minute “flash” talks
 

  • Fernanda Rojas (Wisconsin), “Who Benefits from a Maternity Leave Extension? Evidence from Chile”
  • Ariel J. Binder (Census), “The Gender Pay Gap and its Determinants across the Human Capital Distribution”
4:35 p.m.Break
4:45 p.m.Keynote Address HLH 202
Alessandra Voena (Stanford), How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
5:30 p.m.Conclude, Depart for Reception at the Sheldon Museum of Art
UNL Campus | 12th and R Streets | Lincoln, Nebraska
Heavy hors d’oeuvres | Hosted bar with beer and wine
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Travel Accomodations

Hotel

Lincoln offers a variety of hotels within walking distance of the College of Business. The closest hotels are in the Haymarket district or downtown Lincoln.

Air Travel

Destination: Lincoln Municipal Airport (LNK)

Destination: Omaha Municipal Airport (OMA)
About 65 miles from campus or around an hour drive. Here are some options for getting from OMA to your visit in Lincoln:

  • Car Rental
  • OMALiNK: Arrange for a shuttle van to pick you up when you arrive at the airport and take you directly to campus. Prices vary.
Drive

When you drive to Lincoln, you'll have many options for parking near campus. See the nearby garages in the map to the left.

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