Labor Market for Older Workers.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on the Labor Market for Older Workers took place May 19-20 in Cambridge, MA and online. Research Associates Robert L. Clark of North Carolina State University, Kevin S. Milligan of the University of British Columbia, and Joseph P. Newhouse of Harvard University organized the meeting, which was supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants #G-2018-10089 and #G-2017-8870. A keynote address was delivered by former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jason Furman of the Harvard Kennedy School. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Rahi Abouk, William Paterson University; Keshar M. Ghimire, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash; Johanna Catherine Maclean, Temple University and NBER; and David Powell, RAND Corporation, "Pain Management and Work Capacity: Evidence from Marijuana Legalization"

* Ian Burn, University of Liverpool; Daniel Firoozi and Daniel Ladd, University of California, Irvine; and David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER, "Stereotyped Language in Job Ads and Decisions by Older Workers to Apply for a Job: A Field Experiment"

* Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER; Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University; Lauren H. Nicholas, Colorado School of Public Health; and Sarah Stith, University of New Mexico, "The Impact of COVID-19 on Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers: Evidence from Year 2"

* Laura Quinby, Matthew S. Rutledge, and Gal...