18th IZA & 5th IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation
Program
+++ presentation: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 15 minutes +++
Thursday, October 19
10:00 - 10:25
Registration and Coffee
10:25 - 10:30
Welcome and Introduction
Session A: Field Experiments
Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
10:30 - 11:15
Alice Zulkarnain (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and IZA), Timo Verlaat (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis), Stephanie Rosenkranz (University of Utrecht), Arjan Edzes (University of Groningen), János Betkó (Radbout University), Ruud Muffels (Tilburg University and IZA)
"Giving Welfare Recipients More Autonomy or More Support? Lessons from Six Social Experiments in the Netherlands"
11:15 - 12:00
Nicholas Swanson (UC Berkeley), Luisa Cefala (UC Berkeley), Pedro Naso (Uppsala University), Michel Ndayikeza (University of Burundi)
"General Skills and Underinvestment in New Technologies: Evidence from Burundi"
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
Keynote
Chair: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (CREST)
13:30 - 15:00
Isaiah Andrews (MIT), Nano Barahona (UC Berkeley), Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford), Ashesh Rambachan (MIT), Jesse Shapiro (Harvard)
"Causal Interpretation of Structural IV Estimands"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
Session B: Firms
Chair: Arne Uhlendorff (CREST and IZA)
15:30 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:00
Sara Signorelli (CREST), Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po and IZA), Clement Malgouyres (CREST and IZA), Antonin Bergeaud (HEC), Thomas Zuber (Banque de France)
"The Wage of Temporary Agency Workers"
17:00 - 17:45
Clemens Mueller (University of Mannheim)
"Non-compete Agreements and Labor Allocation across Product Markets"
19:00
Dinner
Friday, October 20
Session C: Job Search
Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
09:30 - 10:15
Roland Rathelot (CREST and IZA), Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi University and IZA), Lena Hensvik (Uppsala University and IZA)
"How Can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations"
10:15 - 11:00
Weilong Zhang (University of Cambridge), Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania and IZA)
"Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach"
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
Session D: Crime
Chair: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (CREST)
11:30 - 12:15
Jeffrey Grogger (University of Chicago and IZA), Dan Black (University of Chicago and IZA), Tom Kirchmaier (London School of Economics), Koen Sanders (London School of Economics)
"Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse"
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
Session E: Methods
Chair: Roland Rathelot (CREST and IZA)
13:30 - 14:15
Pedro Vergara Merino (CREST), Laurent Davezies (CREST), Guillaume Hollard (CREST)
"Revisiting Randomization with the Cube Method"
14:15 - 15:00
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (CREST), Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po Paris), Félix Pasquier (CREST), Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (University of California)
"Difference-in-Differences Estimators for Treatments Continuously Distributed at Every Period"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
Session F: Gender
Chair: Arne Uhlendorff (CREST and IZA)
15:30 - 16:15
Katrin Huber (University of Potsdam and IZA), Geske Rolvering (University of Passau)
"Public Child Care and Mothers’ Career Trajectories"
16:15 - 17:00
Bernhard Schmidpeter (University of Linz and IZA), Wolfgang Frimmel (University of Linz), Rene Wiesinger (University of Linz), Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz and IZA)
"External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap"
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