Conferences.

Immigrants and the US Economy

An NBER conference on Immigrants and the US Economy took place online March 11-12. Research Associates Aimee Chin of the University of Houston and Kalena Cortes of Texas A&M University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* David N. Figlio and Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER; Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Riccardo Marchingiglio, Northwestern University; and Umut Ozek, American Institutes for Research, "Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of US Born Students"

* Annie Laurie Hines, University of California, Davis, and Chloe N. East, Philip A. Luck, Hani Mansour, and Andrea P. Velasquez, University of Colorado Denver, "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement"

* Joaquin A. Rubalcaba, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jose R. Bucheli, New Mexico State University; and Camila N. Morales, University of Texas at Dallas, "Immigration Enforcement and Labor Supply: Hispanic Youth in Mixed-Status Families"

* Parag Mahajan, University of Delaware, "Immigration and Local Business Dynamics: Evidence from US Firms"

* Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER, "Opening the Door: Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime" (NBER Working Paper 27874)

* Toman Barsbai, University of Bristol; Victoria Licuanan, Asian Institute of Management; Andreas Steinmayr, University of Innsbruck; Erwin Tiongson, Georgetown University; and Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER, "Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections" (NBER Working Paper 27346)

* Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, Merced; Esther Arenas Arroyo, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; and Bernhard Schmidpeter, Johannes Kepler University Linz, "Immigration Policy and Firms' Labor Demand"

* Blake H. Heller and Kirsten E. Slungaard Mumma, Harvard University, "Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training"

Summaries of these papers are at: www.nber.org/conferences/immigrants-and-us-economy-spring-2021

Investments in Early Career Scientists: Data and Research Gaps

An NBER conference on Investments in Early Career Scientists: Data and Research Gaps took place online March 19. Research Associate Donna K. Ginther of University of Kansas organized the meeting, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Xuan Jiang, The Ohio State University, and Joseph Staudt, US Census Bureau, "Publish and Train or Perish? Valuing the Early Career Outcomes of STEM PhD Recipients"

* Misty L. Heggeness, US Census Bureau, "The Impact of NIH Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research"

* Tania Babina, Columbia University; Alex Xi He, University of Maryland; Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER; and Elisabeth Ruth Perlman and Joseph Staudt, US Census Bureau, "The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research" (NBER Working Paper 28160)

Summaries of these papers are at: www.nber.org/conferences/investments-early-career-scientists-data-and-research-gaps-spring-2021

Economics of Digitization

An NBER conference on the Economics of Digitization took place online March 19. Faculty Research Fellow Chiara Farronato of Harvard University and Research Associate Catherine Tucker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Rebecca Janssen, the ZEW Mannheim; Reinhold Kesler, University of Zurich; Michael Kummer, University of East Anglia; and Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER, "GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps"

* Sarah Moshary, University of Chicago, "Advertising Effects in Equilibrium"

* Diego Aparicio, IESE Business School; Zachary Metzman, MIT; and Roberto Rigobon, MIT and NBER, "The Pricing Strategies of Online Grocery Retailers"

* Francis Annan, Georgia State University, "Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information"

* Filippo Mezzanotti and Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University, and Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College, "Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems"

* Gordon Burtch, University of Minnesota; Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics; and Francisco Lima, Universidade de Lisboa, "Personal Social Networks, Technology Skills, and Workers' Digital Resilience"

Summaries of these papers are at www.nber.org/conferences/economics-digitization-spring-2021

Inequality, Discrimination, and the Financial System

An NBER conference on Inequality, Discrimination, and the Financial System took place April 1 -2 online. Research Associates Gregor Matvos of Northwestern University and Manju Puri of...