Institute staff participated in three sessions at the 2015 ASSA Meetings, which were held in Boston on January 3–5. They include the following sessions:
Jan 03, 2015 2:30 pm, Westin Copley, Courier
Labor & Employment Relations Association
"Unemployment Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes "
Presiding: STEPHEN A. WOODBURY (W.E. Upjohn Institute and Michigan State University)
- Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?, ARASH NEKOEI (Harvard University)
- The Effects of Relaxing the Work Search Requirement on Job Match Quality, MARTA LACHOWSKA (W.E. Upjohn Institute), MERVE MERAL (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), and STEPHEN A. WOODBURY (W.E. Upjohn Institute and Michigan State University)
- Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession, ANDREAS MUELLER (Columbia University), TILL VON WACHTER (University of California-Los Angeles), and JESSE ROTHSTEIN (University of California-Berkeley)
- Work Sharing as an Alternative to Cyclical Layoffs, SUSAN N. HOUSEMAN (W.E. Upjohn Institute)
Discussants:
WAYNE VROMAN (Urban Institute)
ZHUAN PEI (Brandeis University)
Jan 03, 2015 10:15 am, Boston Marriott Copley, St. Botolph
Association for Comparative Economic Studies
"Comparative Economic Institutions: Households, Firms, and Governments" (Poster Session)
Presiding: DENNIS YANG (University of Virginia)
- The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure: Evidence from Poland's 1999 Pension Reform, MARTA LACHOWSKA (W.E. Upjohn Institute and Stockholm University) and MICHAL MYCK (Centre for Economic Analysis)
Jan 04, 2015 8:00 am, Westin Copley, Great Republic
Labor & Employment Relations Association
"Dissecting Job Search: Economic Approaches to Employers Screening Workers and Workers Screening Jobs"
Presiding: PAUL OSTERMAN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- The Value of Employer Reputation in the Absence of Contract Enforcement: A Randomized Experiment, ALAN BENSON (University of Minnesota), AARON SOJOURNER (University of Minnesota), and AKHMED UMYAROV (University of Minnesota)
- Screening, Monitoring, and Sorting across Occupations, ELIZA FORSYTHE (W.E. Upjohn Institute)
- Noncompetes in the US Labor Force, EVAN STARR (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), NORMAN BISHARA (University of Michigan), and JAMES J. PRESCOTT (University of Michigan)
- Is Credit Status a Good Signal of Productivity? ANDREW WEAVER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussants:
CHRIS STANTON (University of Utah)
COLLEEN MANCHESTER (University of Minnesota)
CONRAD MILLER (Princeton University) (2014 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award winner)
HYE JIN RHO (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jan 04, 2015 8:00 am, Hynes Convention Center, Room 204
American Economic Association
"Injured Workers and Workers' Compensation"
Presiding: LESLIE BODEN (Boston University)
- Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks, BENJAMIN HANSEN (University of Oregon), TUAN NYUGEN (University of Oregon), and GLEN WADDELL (University of Oregon)
- Does Increased Access to Health Insurance Impact Claims for Workers' Compensation? Evidence from Massachusetts Health Care Reform, ERIN TODD BRONCHETTI (Swarthmore College) and MELISSA MCINERNEY (Tufts University)
- Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Reforms, DAVID POWELL (RAND Corporation) and SETH SEABURY (University of Southern California)
- The Effect of Health Insurance on Workers' Compensation Filing: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Age-Based Threshold for Dependent Coverage, MARCUS DILLENDER (W.E. Upjohn Institute)
Discussants:
HENRY HYATT (U.S. Census Bureau)
MELISSA MCINERNEY (Tufts University)
OLESYA FOMENKO (Workers Compensation Research Institute)
DAVID STAPLETON (Mathmatica)