Micro and Macro Labor Economics Conference

Welcoming Remarks

Sylvain Leduc, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Disincentive Effects of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits

Session Chair: Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Authors: Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Marios Karabarbounis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

André Kurmann, Drexel University

Etienne Lalé, University of Quebec at Montreal

Lien Ta, Drexel University

Discussants:

Pascal Noel, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

Cynthia Doniger, Board of Governors

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Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

Authors: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University, GSB

Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley

Discussants:

Joan Monras, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run

Session Chair: Na’ama Shenhav, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Authors: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

Patrick Kehoe, Stanford University

Elena Pastorino, Stanford University

Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

Discussants:

Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia

Richard Rogerson, Princeton University

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Task Inequality and Racial Mobility over the Long Twentieth Century

Session Chair: Na’ama Shenhav, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Authors: Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced

Siobhan O’Keefe, Davidson College

Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University

Zachary Ward, Baylor University

Discussants:

Erin Wolcott, Middlebury College

Henry Siu, University of British Columbia

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Is Software Eating the World?

Session Chair: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Authors: Sangmin Aum, Kyung Hee University

Yongseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis

Discussants:

Salome Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt

Authors: Gizem Kosar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Davide Melcangi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Laura Pilossoph, Duke University

David Wiczer, Stony Brook University

Discussants:

Igor Livshits, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Felicia Ionescu, Board of Governors

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