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09:15 |
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Registration |
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09:30 |
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Opening Remarks |
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Session A: Schooling Investments |
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10:15 |
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Matteo Bobba (Toulouse School of Economics and IZA), Luca Flabbi (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and IZA), Santiago Algazi Levy (Inter-American Development Bank and IZA) |
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"Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments"
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11:00 |
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Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego) |
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"Incentivizing Standards or Standardizing Incentives? Affirmative Action in India"
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| 11:00 |
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11:30 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session B: Entrepreneurship |
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| 11:30 |
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12:15 |
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Peng Zhang (University of Cambridge), Sara Tonini (University of Trento and IZA) |
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"Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa"
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Session C: Social Insurance Reform |
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13:00 |
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Admasu Shiferaw (College of William and Mary), Arjun S. Bedi (ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Den Haag and IZA), Mans Söderbom (University of Gothenburg), Getnet Alemu Zewdu (Addis Ababa University) |
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"Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia"
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14:30 |
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Lunch and Poster Session |
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Maryam Naghsh Nejad (IZA), Chiara Kofol (University of Bonn) |
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"The Human Capital Effects of Hosting Refugees: Evidence from Kagera"
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Ahmed Elsayed (IZA), Rania Roushdy (American University in Cairo) |
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"Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt"
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Session D: Earnings Inequality |
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15:15 |
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Jorge Alvarez (International Monetary Fund) |
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"The Agricultural Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazilian Micro-data"
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16:00 |
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Christian Moser (Columbia University), Niklas Engbom (Princeton University) |
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"Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil"
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16:30 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session D: Earnings Inequality - continued |
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17:15 |
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Nancy H. Chau (Cornell University and IZA), Arnab K. Basu (Cornell University and IZA), Vidhya Soundararajan (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) |
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"Wage Polarization and Contract Employment"
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18:00 |
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T. H. Gindling (University of Maryland, Baltimore County and IZA), Zahid Hasnain (World Bank), David Newhouse (World Bank and IZA), Pablo Suarez B. (World Bank) |
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"Public-Private Earnings Gaps around the World"
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Dinner |
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