St. Louis Fed-WashU-LAEF Macro-Labor Conference
Organizers: Alexander Bick, Serdar Birinci, Victoria Gregory, and Serdar Ozkan, and Yongseok Shin
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 6th Floor River Room
Lunch: 12:00-1:00 PM
1st Presentation: 1:00 PM
Friday, March 28, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Breakfast: 8:15-9:00 AM
1st Presentation: 9:00 AM
Adjournment and Lunch: 12:00 PM
Presenters:
Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
Andy Glover, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Ryungha Oh, Northwestern University & University of Chicago
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University
Joanna Venator, Boston College
Registration has closed.
Questions? Contact Research.Event.Services@stls.frb.org.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 6th Floor River Room
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (St. Louis Room – 6th Floor)
1:00 – 1:50 pm “Capitalism at Work: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in East Germany,” with Tim Lee, Sebastian Findeisen, and Wolfgang Dauth
Presenter: Tommasso Porzio, Columbia University
1:50 – 2:05 pm BREAK
2:05 – 2:55 pm “Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms”
Presenter: Ryungha Oh, Northwestern University and University of Chicago
2:55 – 3:10 pm BREAK
3:10 – 4:00 pm “Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap,” with Andreas Mueller and Ayşegül Sahin
Presenter: Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
4:00 – 4:15 pm BREAK
4:15 – 5:05 am “To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility”
Presenter: Joanna Venator, Boston College
5:05 – 5:20 pm BREAK
5:20 – 6:10 pm “The Lifecycle Origins of Inequality,” with Luigi Pistaferri and David Price
Presenter: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
6:10 – 8:30 pm Dinner Reception (Economy Museum)
Friday, March 28, 2025
Washington University in St. Louis, Seigle Hall Room 301
8:15 – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50 am “Equilibrium Evictions”
Presenter: Andrew Glover, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
9:50 – 10:05 am BREAK
10:05 – 10:55 am “The Value of a Job”
Presenter: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University
10:55 – 11:10 am BREAK
11:10 am – 12:00 pm “Neighborhood Segregation and Endogenous Racial Bias,” with Martín García-Vázquez, Veronica Guerrieri, and Marta Prato
Presenter: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
12:00 pm Lunch, Seigle Hall Room 306