11th Annual CHCS Employment Conference: Work in the Time of COVID
Conference Details
Date: October 30 - December 11, 2020
Location: Virtual
Virtual
The Atlanta Fed's Employment Conference will be virtual this year. Beginning October 30, five sessions with two papers a session will take place on Fridays, from 2 to 4:15 p.m. (ET). Please note that each session requires a separate registration. Registration links are below. Please contact Lisa Piggott for more information.
Conference Organizers:
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago
Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Virtual Agenda
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| Friday, October 30 |
| "Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market" Presenter: Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester Coauthors: Eliza Forsythe, Fabian Lange, and David G. Wiczer Discussant: Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago "Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis" Presenter: Alexander W. Bartik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coauthors: Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin, Jesse Rothstein, and Matt Unrath Discussant: John Grigsby, Northwestern University |
| Friday, November 6 |
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"Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: COVID-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time" Presenter: Joshua Goodman, Boston University Coauthors: Andrew Bacher-Hicks and Christine Mulhern Discussant: Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta "The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of COVID-19 School Closures" Presenter: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt Coauthors: Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, and Irina Popova Discussant: Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Friday, November 20 |
| "The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19" Presenter: Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California at Berkeley Coauthors: Marianne Bitler and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Discussant: David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta "This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession" Presenter: Michèle Tertilt, University of Mannheim Coauthors: Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, and Jane Olmstead-Rumsey Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Friday, December 4 |
| "Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19 Very Preliminary" Presenter: Andy Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles Coauthors: Karen Kopecky and Tao Zha Discussant: Flavio Toxvaerd, University of Cambridge "Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network" Presenter: Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton University Coauthors: Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani, and Edouard Schaal Discussant: Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (This session was organized by Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.) |
| Friday, December 11 |
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"Information Frictions and Access to the Paycheck Protection Program" Presenter: Christopher Neilson, Princeton University Coauthors: John Eric Humphries and Gabriel Ulyssea Discussant: David Cho, Federal Reserve Board "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence from the First Three Months after Widespread Social-Distancing Restrictions" Presenter: Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz Discussant: Eric Zwick, University of Chicago |