Remote Work Conference

Remote Attendance 

If you would like to attend remotely, please register here.

The Schedule

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

12:30     Lunch and Arrival

1:30     Introduction

1:45          Welcome from Jack Nilles

2:00           Managing Remote Work 

• Office at Offsite: How Temporary Colocation Shapes Communication in Fully-remote Organizations
  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Charles Ayoubi, Sujin Jang, Victoria Sevcenko

• Remote Control: Aligning Incentives in a World of Remote Work
  Giorgio Presidente, Carl Frey

• Work-from-home and Firms' Resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
  Davide Rigo, Filippo Boeri, Riccardo Crescenzi

3:30           Break

4:00           Brilliant and Brief: PhD Lightening Talks

• Hiring the Ideal Remote Worker: The Gendered Implications of the Rise of Remote Work
  Emma Williams-Baron, Claire Daviss, Erin Macke

• Telework availability, Women's Labor Market Outcomes and Fertility Choices
  Hira Farooqi

• The Welfare Consequences of Incoming Remote Workers on Local Residents: Evidence from a Case Study and Equilibrium Mode
  Hoyoung Yoo

• Who is a digital nomad?
  Alma Frydman
  
  

4:40           Drinks then Dinner

Thursday, September 28, 2023

8:30            Breakfast

9:00            Gender

• Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?
  Emma Harrington, Matthew Kahn

• Gendered Time Surveillance and Suspicions at Work and in Professional Roles
  Chia-Jung Tsay, Erin Reid

• What Works for Her? How Work-from-Home Digital Jobs Affect Female Labor Force Participation
  Suhani Jalota, Lisa Ho
  
  

10:30        Break

11:00        Worker Productivity & Preferences

• Wage Differentials and the Price of Workplace Flexibility
  Linh Tô, Neil Thakral, Marshall Drake

• Research Output Before and During the Pandemic
  Anthony Diercks

• Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working From Home
  Ben Etheridge

12:30         Lunch

1:30            Effects on the City, Part 1

• The Impact of Work-from-Home on Brick-and-Mortar Retail Establishments: Evidence from Card Transactions

Lindsay Relihan, James Duguid, Bryan Kim, Chris Wheat

• Eyes on the Street: Crime and the Rise of Working From Home

Jesse Matheson, Brendon McConnell, James Rockey, Argyris Sakalis

• The Future of Work and Consumption in Cities After the Pandemic: Evidence from Germany

Simon Krause, Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Carla Krolage

3:00            Break

3:30            Effects on the City, Part 2

• Converting Brown Offices to Green Apartments

Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Candy Martinez

• The Short- and Long- Run Effects of Remote Work on U.S. Housing Markets
  Jack Liebersohn, Greg Howard, Adam Ozimek

• Remote Work and City Structure
  Ferdinando Monte, Charly Porcher, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

5:00            Dinner (by invitation)           

Friday, September 29, 2023

7:30            Breakfast

8:30            Finance of Remote Work

• A Flash in the Pan(demic)? Migration Risks and Municipal Bonds

Peter Haslag, Matthew Gustafson, Daniel Weagley, Zihan Ye

• ICT Capital, Telework Flexibility, and Asset Prices

Xiaofei Zhao, Jack Favilukis, Jing Gao, Xiaoji Lin, Ali Sharifkhani

• Taxes and Telework: The Impacts of State Income Taxes in a Work-from-Home Economy

David R. Agrawal, Jan K. Brueckner

10:00            Break

10:30            Looking forward

• Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries

Michael Koelle, Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Cyrille Schwellnus, Tara Sinclair

• Remote work, Wages, and Hours Worked in the United States

Sabrina Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

• Why Working From Home Will Stick

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis

12:00            Box Lunch