Thursday, September 13
12:15-12:45 p.m.	Registration (Front Lobby)
12:45-01:00 p.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks (Phoenix Conference Room 4th floor) Mary Daly, Associate Director of Research, FRBSF
01:00-02:00 p.m.	“Could Droughts Improve Human Capital?” Manisha Shah, UC Irvine (Presenter) Bryce Millet Steinberg, Harvard
02:15-03:15 p.m.	“Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations” Rita Almeida, World Bank Jennifer Poole, UCSC (Presenter)
03:30-04:30 p.m.	“Investment Decisions in Retirement: The Role of Stock Market Return Expectations” Marco Angrisani, RAND Michael Hurd, RAND Erik Meijer, RAND (Presenter)
04:50-06:00 p.m.	Poster Session, Graduate Students (Los Angeles Garden Lounge & Cafeteria Lounge 4th floor)
06:00-08:00 p.m.	Dinner (Portland Conference Room 4th floor)
Friday, September 14
08:00-08:30 a.m.	Breakfast (Portland Conference Room 4th floor)
08:30-09:30 a.m.	“Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administration Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants” David Autor, MIT Nicole Maestas, RAND Kathleen Mullen, RAND (Presenter) Alexander Strand, SSA
09:45-10:45 a.m.	“Percent Plans, Automatic Admissions, and College Enrollment Outcomes” Lindsay Daugherty, RAND Paco Martorell, RAND (Presenter) Isaac McFarlin Jr., University of Michigan
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	“The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm” Briggs Depew, University of Arizona Todd Sørensen, UC Riverside (Presenter)
12:00-01:30 p.m.	Lunch (Portland Conference Room 4th floor)
01:30-02:30 p.m.	“Cohort Size and the Marriage Market” Mary Ann Bronson, UCLA Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA (Presenter)
02:45-03:45 p.m.	“The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” Heather Antecol, CMC Ozkan Eren, UNLV Serkan Ozbeklik, CMC (Presenter)
04:00-05:00 p.m.	“Peer Effects in Program Participation” Gordon Dahl, UCSD (Presenter) Katrine Løken, University of Bergen Magne Mogstad, University College London

Visitor Information

Conference Hotel

Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California, USA 94111

Conference Venue

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street (between Main and Spear Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94105-1579
(415) 974-2000

Neighborhood information

Please use the Bank's main entrance on Market Street.

Public parking is available in the garage at 123 Mission Street (entrance on Main Street between Mission and Howard Streets, around $26) and in surface lots at Main and Howard Streets (around $15). There are also several parking garages on Spear Street between Market and Howard Streets (around $20 and up).

The Bank is a nonsmoking building.

Airport Transportation

From San Francisco Airport
Travel time is approximately 25 minutes from SFO to the downtown area. Taxi fare from the airport to the downtown area is approximately $45.

The door-to-door Super Shuttle ($16) departs every 10 to 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, from the upper level median strip or courtesy island of the North, Central, and South terminals at SFO.

BART trains leave SFO every 15 minutes and take approximately 35 minutes to reach the downtown area. From the International Terminal, enter SFO-International BART station, which is located on level 3 of the International Terminal. From the Domestic Terminal, follow the signs across the overpass and take the SFO-AirTrain to SFO-International BART station. Once on BART, exit at Embarcadero Station, and walk up to Harbor Court Hotel on Stewart Street. One-way BART fare from SFO to the Embarcadero Station is $8.10.

From Oakland Airport
From OAK, either take the AirBART shuttle (fare is $2) to the Colliseum BART station and take any San Francisco bound train to the Embarcadero Station (fare is $3.55 + $3 AirBART fare), or take any shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Fare is approximately $25-$30.