CARE Seminar: Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Speaker

Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Richard F. Aster Jr. Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara

Director, NBER Personnel Economics Working Group

I study the determinants of workplace productivity, working at the intersection of labor economics, personnel & organizational economics, and behavioral economics. I am particularly interested in questions related to hiring, both in terms of firm performance and in terms of consequences for workers and society.

Title

“Measuring and Boosting the productivity of Workers with a Disability: The case of hearing-impaired food delivery workers in China”