Program

Sunday, October 27

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Poster Session Lightning Talks
Grand Ballroom 2 Mehdi Akhbari, University of Texas at Austin Should We Share Our Cookies? The Effect of Data on Match Quality in Online Advertising Sagar Baviskar, Carnegie Mellon University Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata Thao Duong, Texas A&M University  Optimal Allocation of Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Consumer or Dealer (or Both) Pablo Estrada, Emory University  Spillover Effects with Nonrandom Sample Selection Luis F. Jaramillo, University of Maryland  Innovation Spurred: Evidence from South Korea’s Big R&D Push Victor Quintas-Martinez, MIT  Multiply-Robust Causal Change Attribution Lei Yue, University of California, Santa Barbara  Unpacking the Gender Gaps in Tech: Hours Worked and Salary Progression Huilin Zhang, Purdue University  Productivity Externality of Working from Home: Welfare and Policy Implications  Wei Zhang, Purdue University   Bayesian Dynamic Factor Model for High-Dimensional Matrix-Valued Time Series 

1:30 PM - 2:10 PM Outlook for Economics Careers in Tech
Grand Ballroom 3
Dominic Coey, Director, Research Science, Meta
Gregory Crawford, Chief Economist, Zalando; Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Kirti Gupta, Vice President & Chief Economist, Global Technology, Cornerstone Research
Moderator: Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director, Amazon Health Science

2:15 PM - 2:55 PM Understanding Advances in Panel Data
Grand Ballroom 3
Pedro Sant'Anna, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Emory University | Slides
Moderator: Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

2:55 PM - 3:20 PM Break

3:20 PM - 4:05 PM Talks on Industrial Policy and Business Dynamism
Hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Grand Ballroom 3
Ufuk Akcigit, Chief Economist, Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index; Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago | Slides
Réka Juhász, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia | Slides
Moderator: Michael Luca, Professor and Director of the Technology and Society Initiative, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University

4:10 PM - 4:55 PM Uncovering Labor Market Insights with Tech Company Data
Grand Ballroom 3
Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist, Indeed | Slides
Ben Zweig, CEO, Revelio Labs | Slides
Moderator: Maurine Haver, Founder and CEO, Haver Analytics

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Arenas for Competition: Tech That Will Drive Growth in the Next Decade
Grand Ballroom 3
Kevin Russell, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Moderator: Michael McDonough, Chief Economist for Financial Products, Bloomberg LP

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM I Recruit Economists: Ask Me Anything!
Grand Ballroom 2
Alison Hugelmeyer, Director, Talent Acquisition and Staffing, Cornerstone Research
Chandler Martin, Senior Technical Recruiter, LinkedIn
Renee Stewart, Senior Technical Recruiter, Amazon

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception
Grand Foyer

6:45 PM - 8:00 PM NABE Night Out! Small Group Dinners at Local Restaurants
Area restaurants. Registration required - details in your email. 

Monday, October 28 

7:45 AM - 9:15 AM Continental Breakfast
Grand Foyer

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Job Market Mentoring Session (Closed session; pre-registration required.) 
Grand Ballroom 3

9:15 AM - 9:55 AM Economists as Founders and Entrepreneurs in the Era of AI 
Grand Ballroom 3
Duncan Gilchrist, Co-Founder, Delphina
Michael Ostrovsky, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Topsort; Fred H. Merrill Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Moderator/Speaker: Fangfang Tan, Founder, Story with AI

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Keynote: Causal Inference with Panel Data
Grand Ballroom 3
Guido Imbens, The Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford University Graduate School of Business | Slides
Moderator: Daniel Pollmann, QuantCo

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM Networking Break / Poster Sessions 
Grand Foyer

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM Concurrent Sessions

I. Effect of LLMs on Tasks, Work, and Labor Markets 
Grand Ballroom 1
Matthew Baird, Senior Staff Economist, LinkedIn
Ted Liu, Research Manager, Upwork | Slides
Donald Ngwe, Senior Principal Economist, Microsoft | Slides
Moderator: Sonia Jaffe, Principal Researcher, Microsoft 

II. Applying an Economist Mindset to AI
Grand Ballroom 2
Laurent Callot, Principal Applied Scientist, AWS AI, Amazon | Slides
Tom Cunningham, Data Scientist, OpenAI
Philipp Eisenhauer, Senior Economist, Catalog Experimentation, Amazon
Pedro Olea, Applied Scientist, Delphina
Moderator: Fangfang Tan, Founder, Story with AI

III. Regulatory Intelligence 
Fifth Avenue
Daniel Milo, PhD Student, NYU Stern School of Business | Slides
Leilei Shen, Senior Data Scientist, Airbnb
Ruiqi Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Slides
Moderator: Dana Foarta, Staff Data Scientist, Economics and Policy, Airbnb

12:05 PM - 1:30 PM Luncheon and Fireside Chat
Grand Ballroom 3
Noah Smith, Founder and Writer, Noahpinion | Slides
Moderator: Duncan Gilchrist, Co-Founder, Delphina

1:40 PM - 2:35 PM Concurrent Sessions

I. Validating Causal Methods
Grand Ballroom 1
Clinton Brownley, Lead Data Scientist, Tala | Slides
Eleanor Dillon, Principal Economist, Microsoft Research
Chris Khawand, Principal Economist, Amazon | Slides
Moderator: Colin Gray, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix

II. Algorithmic Recommendation and Privacy Policies
Grand Ballroom 2
Malika Korganbekova, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago
Michael Luca, Professor and Director of the Technology and Society Initiative, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Yanwen Wang, Economics PhD Student, Cornell University

III. Topics in Pricing
Fifth Avenue
Lars Roemheld, Senior Principal, Office of the Chief Economist, Microsoft
Ozge Sahin, Professor, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University | Slides
Sid Sanghi, Economist, Pricing Systems, Amazon
Moderator: Joseph Cooprider, Senior Economist, Amazon

2:35 PM - 3:05 PM Networking Break / Poster Sessions
Grand Foyer

3:05 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
I. Causal Machine Learning for Endogeneity Problems in Recommender Systems
Grand Ballroom 1
Apoorva Lal, Data Scientist, Netflix | Slides
Joel Persson, Research Scientist, Spotify
Ravi Sojitra, PhD Student, Stanford University | Slides
Moderator: Kamer Toker-Yildiz, Data Science Manager, LinkedIn

II. Behavioral Economics
Grand Ballroom 2
Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships, Behavioural Insights Team | Slides
Kareem Haggag, Assistant Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Silvia Saccardo, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Moderator: Julia Levine, Assistant Professor, Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University

III. The Role and Value of Data in Competition
Fifth Avenue
Chiara Farronato, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University | Slides
Jonathan Hersh, Associate Professor of Economics and Management Science, Chapman University | Slides
Moderator: Fraser Thompson, Senior Principal, Keystone Strategy

4:10 PM - 4:45 PM Fireside Chat
Grand Ballroom 3
Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President, People eXperience and Technology, Amazon
Moderator: Justine Hastings, VP & Chief of People-Centered Science, People eXperience and Technology, Amazon

4:50 PM - 5:30 PM Economics of Media
Grand Ballroom 3
Kyle Kretschman, Head of Economics, Spotify
Phil Leslie, VP Economist, Amazon
Max Schmeiser, Vice President, Data Science and Engineering, Netflix
Moderator: Imke Reimers, Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Economics, Cornell University

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM  Networking Reception
Hosted by Amazon
Grand Foyer

7:15 PM - 9:00 PM  Econ Rock Concert ft. the Benevolent Dictators (RSVP & ID required; 21+ only)
Hosted by Keystone Strategy
The Funhouse at El Corazon (109 Eastlake Avenue E., Seattle)

Tuesday, October 29

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
Grand Foyer

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Intersection of ML and Econometrics
Grand Ballroom 3
Nathan Kallus, Research Director, Netflix; Associate Professor, Cornell University
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Assistant Professor, Stanford University | Slides
Moderator: Colin Gray, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix

9:05 AM - 9:35 AM Fireside Chat
Grand Ballroom 3
Elizabeth Stone, Chief Technology Officer, Netflix
Moderator: Chris Nosko, Chief Economist for Stores, Amazon

9:40 AM - 10:15 AM Networking Break
Grab your coffee and come join one of these small informal chats! (attendance is limited; first come, first served)

9:45 AM - 10:10 AM Small Informal Chats

  Chat 1 - A Career in Tech - the First Five Years
Vashon 2 (3rd floor)
Colin Gray, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix
Joel Persson, Research Scientist, Spotify
Sophie Sheng, Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Economist, LinkedIn

  Chat 2 - Transitioning from Academia to Tech
Baker (2nd floor)
Donald Ngwe, Senior Principal Economist, Microsoft
Brian Weller, Director of Data Science, Airbnb

  Chat 3 - Working with Non-Economists in Tech
Stuart (2nd floor)
Tim Graciano, Director - Economics, Amazon
 Li Hao, Staff Data Scientist, Coupang
Aaron Terrazas, Economist

  Chat 4 - IC or Manager? Navigating Mid-Career Decisions
Olympic (2nd floor)
Peter Gross, Staff Data Scientist, Google
Ida Johnsson, Associate Director and Economist, Chewy
Vincent Martin, Research Scientist Manager, Meta

  Chat 5 - Diversity in Tech
Vashon 1 (3rd floor) Dana Foarta, Staff Data Scientist, Economics and Policy, Airbnb Dante Rosario, Talent Acquisition Manager, Americas Stores, Amazon
Colleen Stuart, Assistant Professor, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University 

10:15 AM - 11:10 AM Concurrent Sessions
I. Forecasting and Methods
Grand Ballroom 1
Tim Decker, Principal Data Scientist, ADP Research Institute | Slides
Victor Sellemi, Research Scientist, Meta | Slides
Shiqi Wang, Economist, Amazon
Moderator: Vincent Martin, Research Scientist Manager, Meta

II. Monetization of Gen AI 
Grand Ballroom 2
Matthew Harding, Professor of Economics and Statistics, UC Irvine | Slides
Changshuai Wei, Senior Staff Engineer, ML, LinkedIn | Slides
Xiannong (Sean) Zhang, Data Scientist, Google
Moderator: Margaret Pierson, Director of Machine Learning, Wayfair

III. Nontraditional Data Sources
Fifth Avenue
Naveen Joshi, Senior Business Analyst, Goodwill | White Paper
Ara Kharazian, Economic Research Lead, Square | Slides
Lisa Simon, Chief Economist, Revelio Labs| Slides
Moderator: Meagan Martin-Schoenberger, Senior Economist, KPMG US

11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Transition

11:20 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent Sessions

I. LLM Applications in Industry Grand Ballroom 1
Ben Manning, PhD Candidate in Information Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management | Slides
Tommy Mulc, Marketing Data Scientist, Google | Paper | Slides
Moderator: Paul Liu, Director of Economics, Google 

II. Selected Topics on Experiments
Hosted by the Economic Science Association Grand Ballroom 2
Sanchaita Hazra, Graduate Student, University of Utah | Slides
The Good, the Average and the Ugly: Effects of AI Quality Information on Detecting Text-Based Lies
Brian Jabarian, Howard and Nancy Marks Fellow, The University of Chicago Booth Business School
Critical Thinking and Story Telling
Moderator/Speaker: Andrea Robbett, Professor of Economics, Middlebury College | Slides
Partisan Bias in the Workplace: How Political Polarization Affects Hiring

III. Measuring the Impact of AI on Productivity Fifth Avenue
Haoge Chang, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Tom Cunningham, Data Scientist, OpenAI
Mert Demirer, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management | Slides
Moderator: Sida Peng, Economist, Office of Chief Economist, Microsoft

12:15 PM - 1:25 PM  Luncheon and Keynote: Leveraging Deep Learning to Explore Economic Data Grand Ballroom 3
Melissa Dell, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University | Slides
Moderator: Ida Johnsson, Associate Director and Economist, Chewy

1:35 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
I. Topics in Experimentation Grand Ballroom 1
Niloy Biswas, Research Scientist, Meta | Slides
Daniel Schmierer, Tech Lead Manager and Staff Data Scientist, Airbnb
Le Wang, Data Science Manager, Wayfair | Slides
Moderator: Michael Luca, Professor and Director of the Technology and Society Initiative, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University

II. Remote Work and the Future of Cities Grand Ballroom 2
Emily Kolinski Morris, CBE, NABE President; Global Chief Economist, Ford Motor Company
Igor Popov, Chief Economist, ApartmentList | Slides
Issi Romem, Economist and Founder, MetroSight | Slides
Moderator: Peter Coles, Director of Data Science and Head Economist, Policy, Airbnb

III. Building Causal Machine Learning Platforms Fifth Avenue
Adrien Alexandre, Senior Data Scientist, Netflix | Slides
Eleanor Dillon, Principal Economist, Microsoft Research | Slides
Tina Y. Tang, Senior Manager, Flagship Applied Science, LinkedIn
Moderator: Ayal Chen-Zion, Staff Data Scientist, Netflix

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Networking Break

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM AI Regulation and Impact on Innovation Grand Ballroom 3
Amy Crews Cutts, CBE, Advisor, FairPlay AI | Slides
Ondrej Linda, Senior Director, AI & Engineering, Zillow
Diana Moss, Vice President and Director of Competition Policy, Progressive Policy Institute
Pinar Yildirim, Associate Professor of Economics and Marketing, The Wharton School
Moderator: Nathan Hipsman, Senior Manager, Cornerstone Research

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Communicating Complex Information to Less Technical Audiences    Grand Ballroom 3     
Nicholas Huntington-Klein, Assistant Professor of Economics, Seattle University | Slides Moderator: Amy Crews Cutts, CBE, Advisor, FairPlay AI