SESSION 1: Aysegul Sahin, Chair

8:30 - 9:45 a.m.

“The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market”
Victoria Gregory, FRB Saint Louis; Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER; David Wiczer, Stony Brook University

Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Princeton

9:45 - 11 a.m.

“Occupational Reallocation Within and Across Firms: Implications for Labor-Market Polarization”
Toshihiko Mukoyama, Georgetown University; Naoki Takayama, Hitotsubashi University; Satoshi Tanaka, University of Queensland

Discussant: Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

“Heterogeneous Job Ladders”
Katarína Borovičková, FRB Richmond; Claudia Macaluso, FRB Richmond

Discussant: Gregor Jarosch, Duke

SESSION II: Mariacristina de Nardi, Chair

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

“Joint Search over the Life Cycle”
Annika Bacher, BI Oslo; Philipp Grübener, Goethe University Frankfurt; Lukas Nord, FRB Minneapolis

Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, FRB Minneapolis

3:45 - 5 p.m.

“How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal”
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University; Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota; Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley

Discussant: Serdar Birinci, FRB St. Louis

SESSION III: Gianluca Violante, Chair

8:30 - 9:45 a.m.

“Preventative vs. Curative Medicine: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Health Care over the Life Cycle”
Serdar Ozkan, FRB St. Louis

Discussant: Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia

9:45 - 11 a.m.

“Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty: Free College, Better Schools or Generous Transfers?”
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania; Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Frankfurt; Irina Popova, University of Bonn

Discussant: Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

“Time-Averaging and Taxation”
Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware; Lars Ljungqvist, New York University; Thomas J. Sargent, New York University; Serhiy Stepanchuk, University of Southampton

Discussant: Richard Blundell, University College London