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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