JoshCon 2026
Program
22-May
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Introductory remarks by James Poterba
8:45 - 10:15 Session I: Wage Determinants
Chair: Larry Katz
Firm Pay, Amenities, and Inequality
Presenter: Sydnee Caldwell
Discussant: Daron Acemoglu
Valuing Non-Wage Amenities: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Army Enlistments
Presenter: Kyle Greenberg
Discussant: David Autor
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session II: 'Metrics
Chair: Don Rubin
Conditional Influence Functions
Presenter: Whitney Newey
Discussant: Andres Santos
Inference with Few Treated Units
Presenter: Bruno Ferman
Discussant: Isaiah Andrews
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Break
13:30 - 15:00 Session III: Schools
Chair: Adriana Kugler
METCO and the Long-run Impacts of School Integration
Presenter: Elizabeth Setren
Discussant: Esther Duflo
Commuting to Opportunity: Reducing Employment Barriers with Short-Term Subsidies
Presenter: Analia Schlosser
Discussant: Victor Lavy
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session IV: Applied Micro
Chair: Paul Joskow
Presenter: Olivia Kim
Discussant: David Matsa
School Effects on College Outcomes in the Absence of Standardized Tests
Presenter: Roman Zarate
Discussant: Thomas Kane
17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 17:45 Session V: The Josh Effect: Beyond Academia
Presenter: John Johnson
17:45 - 18:30 Reception
18:30 - 20:30 Dinner
23-May
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Session VI: 'Metrics
Chair: Orley Ashenfelter
Presenter: Peter Hull
Discussant: Steve Pischke
Presenter: Brigham Frandsen
Discussant: Anna Mikusheva
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Session VII: Schools
Chair: Glenn Ellison
Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement?
Presenter: Christopher Walters
Discussant: Susan Dynarski
Overcoming Racial Gaps in School Preferences: The Effect of Peer Diversity on School Choice
Presenter: Viola Corradini
Discussant: William Evans
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 13:00 Final words and farewell