Join the Department of Economics for a research lecture by Alex Bell, assistant professor at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, on “Pricing Job Amenities: A Practitioner’s Manual.”

About the lecture

This talk presents a practical framework for estimating how workers value non-wage job characteristics, such as flexibility, working conditions and benefits, while accounting for differences in unobserved ability.

Bell introduces an applied approach that allows researchers to recover credible estimates of job amenity values using standard observational data, offering a roadmap for empirical work in labor economics. The session will also highlight how these methods align with experimental findings, demonstrating their real-world relevance.

Graduate students, particularly those with interests in labor and health economics, are encouraged to attend. Opportunities to meet with the speaker are available, with third-year Ph.D. students especially encouraged to email felicien.goudou@wayne.edu to discuss research ideas.