Homepage of Alan Benson (MIT Sloan)

DATE OF BIRTH: September 30, 1985 CITIZENSHIP: U.S.

EDUCATION:

2013 (Exp.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management

Ph.D., Management, Institute for Work & Employment Research

Dissertation: “Sustained Rents in Imperfect Labor Markets: Essays on Recruitment, Training, and Incentives”

Professor Paul Osterman (Chair) Professor David Autor (Co-Chair)

MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Department of Economics

100 Main Street, E62-336 50 Memorial Drive, E52-371

Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 Cambridge, MA 02142-1347

(617) 253-2667 (617) 258-7698

osterman@mit.edu dautor@mit.edu

Professor Thomas A. Kochan

MIT Sloan School of Management

100 Main Street, E62-334

Cambridge, MA 02142-1347

(617) 253-6689

tkochan@mit.edu

2007 Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations

B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations (Honors), GPA 3.91

Thesis Title: “A Game Theoretic Approach to Social Dialogue”

2006 Oxford University, Pembroke College

Exchange student (one year) in Economics and Management

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:

2012 Russell Sage Co-PI, “Is College Still Worth It?”
2012 64^th LERA Meetings of the ASSA, Winner of Best Doctoral Student Paper

2008-Present Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

2007-2008 MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship

2007 Joel Seidman Memorial Prize, for “A Game Theoretic Approach to Social Dialogue”

2007 Irving M. Ives Award, for service to the ILR School

2007 Golden Key Outstanding Membership Award for Community Service

2005-2007 Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship

2004-2006 Undergraduate Academic Research Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS:

Kochan, Thomas A., David B. Lipsky, and Mary Newhart, and Alan Benson. 2010. “The Long-Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State’s Taylor Law.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64(4): 565-84.

Benson, Alan. “Firm-Sponsored General Education and Mobility Frictions: Evidence from Hospital Sponsorship of Nursing Schools and Faculty.” Forthcoming at Journal of Health Economics.

Benson, Alan. “Re-Thinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women into Geographically-Flexible Occupations.” Revise & Resubmit at American Journal of Sociology.

Benson, Alan. “A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering.” Under review.

Benson, Alan. “The (New) Economics of Staffing Registered Nurses.” Under review.

Benson, Alan. “Do Agents Game their Agents’ Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers.” Working paper.

Benson, Alan, Raimundo Estevan, and Frank Levy. “Is College Still Worth It? California Public Higher Education and the American Dream.” Working Paper.

INVITED TALKS:

“Do Agents Game their Agents’ Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers.”

-        Wharton School of Business Conference on People and Organizations (Plenary), Fall 2012
-        MIT Sloan Organizational Economics Lunch, Summer 2012
-        MIT Economics Applied Microeconomics Lunch, Spring 2012

“A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering”

-          Best Student Paper Competition Finalist Talk at the 68^th LERA Meetings (Winner), Winter 2012
-          Wharton School of Business Conference on People and Organizations (Plenary), Fall 2011
-          MIT IWER Seminar, Fall 2011
-          MIT Economics Labor Lunch, Fall 2011
-        American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Summer 2011
-        Academy of Management Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Summer 2011
-        MOOD Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory & Econometrics at the Einaudi Institute for
       Economics and Finance in Rome, Summer 2011
-        IWAEE Workshop in Catanzaro, Italy, Summer 2011
-        Transatlantic Doctoral Conference at London Business School, Summer 2011
-        MIT Sloan Economic Sociology Working Group, Summer 2010
-        MIT Sloan IWER Seminar, Spring 2010
-        MIT Economics Labor Lunch, Spring 2010

“Firm-Sponsored General Education and Mobility Frictions”

         -        Wharton School of Business Conference on People and Organizations, Summer 2009
-        MIT Labor Economics Lunch, Spring 2009
-        MIT Sloan IWER Seminar, Fall 2008

“The Long-Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State’s Taylor Law 2008

- IWER Seminar, Spring 2009

“A Game Theoretic Approach to Social Dialogue”

- Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey. Spring 2007.

TEACHING:

Instructor for Graduate Mini-Courses

2009 - 2012 Sloan Fellows Math Tutorial (MIT Sloan)

Teaching Assistant for Graduate Courses

2012 Power and Negotiatinos, John Richardson (Visiting MIT Sloan)

2012 Doctoral Seminar in Work & Employment, Thomas A. Kochan (MIT Sloan)

2011 Managing and Leading People and Organizations, Paul Osterman (MIT Sloan)

2010 Designing and Leading the Innovative Organization, Paul Osterman (MIT Sloan)