Conference Schedule
Thursday, June 2nd
12:00‐1:00 – Arrival/Lunch (Informal)
1:00‐1:15 – Welcome and Introduction
1:15‐2:30 – The Structure of the Government and Employee Performance
Political Control and Agency Human Capital: Case of the Department of Homeland
Security, David Lewis (Vanderbilt University)
The Diffusion of Policy Innovations in U.S. Federal Agencies, Joshua Bruce (Duke University)
2:30‐2:45 – Break
2:45‐4:00 – Causes and Implications of Turnover in the Federal Government
Quitting in Protest, Charles Cameron (Princeton University)
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government, Alex Bolton (Duke University)
4:00‐4:15 – Break
4:15‐5:30 – Labor Market Structure and Federal Employment
Are Recessions Good for Government? The Effect of Unemployment on Public Sector
Human Capital, Congshan Zhang (Duke University)
Preliminary ideas on Mobility, Performance, and Compensation, Moshe Buchinsky and
Rustin Partow (UCLA)
6:00 ‐ Shuttle to Hotel, Hilton Garden Inn University/Medical Center—Durham, NC
7:00 ‐ Dinner reservation at Parizade Restaurant (Walk from Hotel)
Friday, June 3rd
8:00 – Shuttle from Hotel
8:00‐8:30 ‐ Continental breakfast
8:30‐9:45 – Gender Differentials in Wages and Careers
Measuring and Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in the Federal Government, John de
Figueiredo (Duke University)
The Family Medical Leave Act and its Effect on Promotions of Women in the Federal
Government, Maria Droganova (Clemson University)
9:45‐10:00 – Break
10:00‐11:45 ‐ Synthetic Data
An Overview of the OPM Synthetic Data Project, Jerry Reiter (Duke University)
Synthetic Human Capital Data: Assessment of Utility, Thomas Balmat (Duke University)
11:45 ‐12:45 ‐ Lunch
12:45‐2:30 ‐ Synthetic Data
Constructing the Synthetic OPM Dataset, Felipe Barrientos (Duke University)
Private Verification of Regression Results on Synthetic Data, Ashwin Machanavajjhala
(Duke University)
2:45 – Taxi/shuttle to RDU airport
3:45 – Taxi/shuttle to RDU airport