Remote Work Conference

12:15 - 12:45 pm Lunch and Arrival

12:45 - 1:00 pm Introduction

1:00 - 2:30 pm How Much and Where Is Remote Work Happening?

• How Many Americans Work Remotely? • Slides
  Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe

• Working from Home Around the World • Slides
  Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate

• Remote Work across Jobs, Companies and Countries • Slides
  Peter Lambert, Stephen Hansen, Nick Bloom, Steve Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Beldi Taska

2:30 - 3:00 pm Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm Spacial Implications of Remote Work I

• The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages • Slides
  Sitian Liu and Yichen Su

• The Impact of Remote Work on Local Employment, Business Relocation, and Local Home Costs • Slides
  Michael Dalton, Matthew Dey, and Mark Loewenstein

• Housing Demand and Remote Work • Slides
  John Mondragon and Johannes Wieland

4:30 pm Drinks and Dinner at Landau Front Lawn

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 am How Remote Work Impacts Knowledge Work

• Disrupting Science • Slides
  Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente

• The Power of Proximity: Office Interactions Affect Online Feedback, Especially for Women and Young Workers • Slides
  Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais

• Measuring the Impact of Remote Work Across the United States • Slides

Alan Kwan and Ben Matthies

10:30 - 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 12:00 pm Hybrid Work

• Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment • Slides
  Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis, and Kyle Schirmann

• How Hybrid Working From Home Works Out • Slides
  Ruobing Han, Nick Bloom, and James Liang

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm The Impact on Workers

• Who is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home? • Slides
  Victoria Vernon and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

• Speak Up or Stay Silent: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Remote Work on Worker Voice • Slides
  Aruna Ranganathan and Aayan Das

• Mismatch in Preferences for working from home - evidence from discrete choice experiments • Slides
  Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska, and Mateusz Smoter

2:30 - 3:00 pm Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm Selection & Treatment Effects

• “Working” Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and The Market for Remote Work • Slides
  Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington

• Worker Sorting, Work Discipline and Development • Slides
  David Atkin, Antoinette Schoar, and Sumit Shinde

• Dynamic Effects of COVID-19 on Remote Work: Evidence from Panel Data • Slides
  Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe

4:30 pm Walk to Nick's House for Drinks and Dinner

8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 am Spacial Implications of Remote Work II

• Spatial Implications of Telecommuting • Slides
  Matthew J. Delventhal and Andrii Parkhomenko

• The International Price of Remote Work • Slides
  Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik

• Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse • Slides
  Arpit Gupta, Vrinda Mittal, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

10:00 - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - 11:30 am Impact of Distance

• From in-person to online: the new shape of the VC industry • Slides
  Liudmila Alekseeva, Silvia Dalla Fontana, Caroline Genc, and Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar

• Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance • Slides
  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline Lane, and Iavor Bojinov

11:30 am Box Lunch

Link to Conference Recordings

Funding from Smith Richardson Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation