2025 Remote Work Conference

12:15 - 12:45 pm     Arrival and Lunch at Hatfield Courtyard

1:00 - 2:30 pm            Consumers & the City

• Work from Home and Spatial Misallocation
  Mikhail Zavarzin

• Remote Work and Consumer Cities
  Yichen Su, Franklin Qian

• Shopping from Home
  Stephanie Johnson, Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Jana Obradovic

2:30 - 3:00 pm            Break

3:00 - 4:00 pm     Brief & Brilliant: Firms & Management

• Do Firms Know what Workers Want?
  Simon Cordes, Max Müller 

• Internal Communication and Remote Work
  Kyle Schirmann, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Miguel Espinosa, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis 

• So, dear applicant, do you mean working from home or shirking from home?
  Eline Moens, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem, Stijn Baert

• Wage Penalties for Workplace Amenity: Evidence from remote work in the United States
  Jacob Sano

4:00 - 4:15 pm            Break

4:15 - 5:45 pm     Organizational Structure

• Remote Work Makes Organizations Top-Heavy
  Christopher Stanton

• Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
  Gregor Schubert

• Working from Home and Sorting of Male and Female Workers   
  Chiara Bernardi

5:45 - 6:15 pm     Walk to Hoover Tower Steps and Conference Photo

6:15 - 8:00 pm     Conference Drinks and Dinner at SEIPER – Invitation only

8:00 - 8:30 am             Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 am          Mental Health

• Home Alone: Remote Work, Lonely Leisure and Mental Health
  Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, Amanda Pallais

• The Changing Nature of Work: What can we learn from Time Use Diaries?
  Francesca Foliano, Rebecca Riley, Lynsey Brown

• The Daily Dynamics of Informal Interactions and Psychological Safety: An Intensive Longitudinal Study of Hybrid Workers
  Sumer Vaid, Dylan Wiwad, Razan Sadaq-Keyes, Michael Massimi, Lucas Puente, Ashley V. Whillans

10:00 - 10:30 am       Break

10:30 - 11:30 pm       RTOs

• The Power of Proximity to Coworkers
  Emma Harrington, Natalia Emanuel, Amanda Pallais

• The Impact of Return-to-Office Mandates on Equity Analysts
  Baolian Wang, Peixin Li, Jiawei Yu

11:30 - 12:30 pm        Lunch

12:30 - 2:00 pm           Brief & Brilliant: Demographic Impacts + Family Dynamics

• Work-From-Home and the Rug Rat Race: The New Geography of Educational Inequality
  Francesco Saverio Lenzi 

• The Gendered Effects of Work-from-Home on Spousal Labor Market Outcomes
  Lily Seitelman

• When Help Doesn’t Help:  Fathers’ WFH During COVID and Its Lasting Impact on Household Labour Division
  Meng Su

• Flexibility for Both Parents: Remote Work and the Evolution of Child Penalties
  Dana Scott, Elin Sundberg

• A Remote Work Baby Boom? Remote Work and Fertility in the United States
  Siyao Lu, Emma Zang, Kelly Musick

• Work from Home and Fertility
  Katelyn Cranney, Pablo Zarate, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Mathias Dolls

2:00 - 2:30 pm            Break

2:30 - 4:00 pm            Children

• Childcare in the Era of Remote Work: Evidence from Child Care Tax Credit Filing
  Dmitri Koustas, Yana Gallen, Stephanie Karol, Ithai Lurie

• Flexible Work, Occupational Constraints, and the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply
  Megha Patnaik, Sara Casella, Kieran Larkin

• When Parents Work from Home
  Michele Belot, Pascal Achard, Arnaud Chevalier

4:00 - 4:30 pm      Break

4:30 - 5:30 pm            Innovation & Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work
  Ting Xu, Alan Kwan, Ben Matthies 

• Innovator Networks Within the Firm and the Quality of Innovation
  Christoph Siemroth, Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel

5:45 - 7:30 pm Dinner at the Economics Department – Invitation Only

8:00 - 8:30 am        Breakfast

8:30 - 9:45 am         Brief & Brilliant: Market Structure

• Productivity Externalities of Working from Home: Welfare and Policy Implications
  Huilin Zhang

• Remote Work: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation
  Halil Akil

• Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
  Bruno Escobar, Isabella Di Filippo, Juan Martin Facal

• Work From Home and the Productivity Gains From Rising Disability Employment
  Octavio Aguilar

• Work from Home, Quit Behavior and Monopsony Power: Evidence from the Italian Labor Market
  Nicol Barbieri
  
  

9:45 - 10:00 am            Break

10:00 - 11:30 am        Productivity 

• Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector
  Alessandra Fenizia, Tom Kirchmaier

• The Allocation of Time and Remote Work
  Christos Makridis

• The Impact of Monthly Office Presence on Fully Remote Teams
  Cevat Giray Aksoy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Victoria Marino, Cem Ozguzel

11:30 - 11:45 am Break

11:45 - 12:45 pm        Gender 

• Connecting Rural Women to Global Value Chains via Home-based Work
  Achyuta Adharvyu, Anant Nyshadham, Priyanka Sarda Tadikonda 

• The Double-Edge of Flexibility: Task Design and Gendered Focus in Remote Work
  Aruna Ranganathan