Southeastern Micro Labor Workshop

Held virtually again this year, the workshop will be hosted by Julie Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The workshop will be held over one day, April 30, 2021, beginning at 9 am and ending with a social hour at 5:15 pm ET. Seven papers will be presented. There will be 35 minutes for each presenter, 10 minutes for each discussant, and 10 minutes for an open discussion of each paper.

Please contact Julie Hotchkiss or Melinda Pitts with any questions.

Steering Committee: Julie Hotchkiss, Melinda Pitts, Kathryn Anderson, Peter Brummund, Joe Hotz, Tom Mroz, Orgul Ozturk, and Madeline Zavodny

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Agenda

Time	Session
9:00 a.m.	"Young Children and Parents' Labor Supply during COVID-19" Presenter: Scott Barkowski, Clemson University Coauthors: Joanne Song McLaughlin and Yinlin Dai Discussant: Dora Gicheva, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
10:00	"Child Care Over the Business Cycle" Presenter: Jessica H. Brown, University of South Carolina Coauthor: Chris Herbst Discussant: Amelia Biehl, Florida Gulf Coast University
11:00	"Nurse Practitioner Oversight Ratios and Labor Market Outcomes" Presenter: Andrew Smith, Emory University Coauthor: Sara Markowitz Discussant: Aaron Gamino, Middle Tennessee State University
12:15 p.m.	Lunch "Planning the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging" V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University [Presentation]
1:00	"Tuition, Graduation, Debt, and Earnings: Learning from Small Shocks and Big Data" Presenter: Dan Kreisman, Georgia State University Coauthors: Jonathan Smith, Jennifer Ma, and Matea Pender Discussant: Melinda Morrill, North Carolina State University
2:00	"Gender Bias in Performance Evaluation: Evidence from a Field Experiment" Presenter: Perihan Saygin, University of Florida Coauthor: Thomas Knight Discussant: Maria Padilla-Romo, University of Tennessee
3:00	Break
3:15	"40 Acres and a Mule: Black Americans' Landholding and Economic Mobility after Emancipation" Presenter: Marianne Wannamaker, University of Tennessee Coauthors: William J. Collins and Nicholas Holtkamp Discussant: Jorge Luis Garcia, Clemson University
4:15	"The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil" Presenter: Ian Schmutte, University of Georgia Coauthor: Conrad Miller Discussant: Kathryn H. Anderson, Vanderbilt University
5:15	Social hour