Pacific Northwest Labor Day 2024

7th Annual Pacific Northwest Labor Day Workshop

Friday, October 4, 2024

Seattle, WA

Program

9:30 – 9:45: Coffee and Pastries

9:50: Opening Remarks

10:00 – 10:50: Katherine Carman and Kathleen J. Mullen, “Nice Work if You Can Get It: The Economic Cost of Job-Related Burnout”

11:00 – 11:50: Patrick Carlin, Sumedha Gupta, Meredith Adams, Elaine Hill, and Kosali Simon, “Dual Epidemics: The Interaction of The Covid-19 Pandemic and The Opioid Crisis”

12:00 – 12:50: Benjamin Cowan and Kairon Shayne Garcia, “Politics, Policy, and the Work-from-Home Revolution”

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch 

2:00 – 2:50: Aurelia (Aochun) Di, “Inspirational or Demotivational: Experimental Evidence on the Impacts of Role Models”

3:00 – 3:50:  Paul Thompson, “Four-Day School Weeks and Teacher Mobility: Evidence from Missouri and Oklahoma”

4:00 – 4:50: Cheng Chen, Aurelia (Aochun) Di, and Lucy Hong, “Perceived Beliefs about Parents, Academic Performance, and Mental Health: Evidence from Chinese Middle School Students”