#AcademicRunPlaylist - 7/26/24

I had a nice end to the week, complete with great talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a fantastic talk by Reshmaan Hussam on a field experiment in the Rohingya refugee camps comparing the economic and psychological effects of providing cash support vs. paid work at the National Bureau of Economic Research gender and the economy conference. Hussam demonstrates the benefits that paid work brings above and beyond pure cash transfers (and that unpaid work doesn't bring), and also a surprising lack of gender effects. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRRYhhcpcg

Next was the final day of the NBER personnel economics conference, with noteworthy talks by Tatiana Mocanu (personal connections and hiring decisions in the Brazilian public sector) and Benjamin Friedrich (price discovery in labor markets) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=473q0TaMVZM

Last was an amazing conversation with Aaron Dhir and Deborah Rhode on boardroom diversity at the Stanford Law School. This discussion from 9 years ago is still extremely relevant, getting into the slow pace of improvement in board diversity, the effects of government regulation in the space, and the structural impediments to improvements. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qU5bRlLBzc