17th IZA & 4th IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation
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+++ presentation: 20 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
Thursday, October 06
14:15 - 14:30
Welcome
Session A: Gender
Chair: Arne Uhlendorff (CREST and IZA)
14:30 - 15:00
Christina Brown (University of Chicago)
"Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers"
15:00 - 15:30
Weilong Zhang (University of Cambridge), Christopher Flinn (New York University), Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania and IZA)
"Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps"
15:30 - 16:00
Regina T. Riphahn (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA), Matthias Collischon (IAB), Kamila Cygan-Rehm (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories and IZA)
"Long-Run Effects of Subsidized Small Jobs on Maternal Labor Market Outcomes"
16:00 - 16:15
Break
Keynote
Chair: Gerard J. van den Berg (University of Groningen and IZA)
16:15 - 17:30
Susan Athey (Stanford University)
"Labor Market Transitions: Impact and Interventions"
17:30 - 17:45
Break
Session B: Policies I
Chair: Bruno Crépon (CREST and IZA)
17:45 - 18:15
Max Kunaschk (IAB), Gerard J. van den Berg (University of Groningen and IZA), Julia Lang (IAB), Gesine Stephan (IAB and IZA), Arne Uhlendorff (CREST and IZA)
"Machine Learning and Subjective Assessments by Unemployed Workers and Their Caseworkers"
18:15 - 18:45
Eva Mörk (Uppsala University and IZA), Lillit Ottoson (Uppsala University), Ulrika Vikman (IFAU)
"To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits"
18:45 - 19:15
Malte Sandner (IAB), Silke Anger (IAB and IZA), Jacopo Basetto (IAB)
"Making Integration Work? Facilitating Access to Occupational Recognition and Immigrants' Labor Market Performance"
19:15 - 20:00
Get-Together
Friday, October 07
Session C: Policies II
Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
15:00 - 15:30
Livia Alfonsi (UC Berkeley), Mary Namubiru (BRAC Uganda), Sara Spaziani (Brown University)
"Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors"
15:30 - 16:00
Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL and IZA), Carlos Alberto Belchior (UZH), Gustavo Gonzaga (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
"Unpacking Neighborhood Effects: Experimental Evidence from a Large Scale Housing Program in Brazil"
16:00 - 16:30
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll (University of Turin and IZA), Roberto Quaranta (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-Post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings"
16:30 - 16:45
Break
Session D: Methods
Chair: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (CREST)
16:45 - 17:15
Christoph Breunig (University of Bonn), Ruixuan Liu (Emory University), Zhengfei Yu (University of Tsukuba)
"Robust Bayesian Inference on Average Treatment Effects"
17:15 - 17:45
Brantly Callaway (University of Georgia), Carolina Caetano (University of Georgia), Stroud Payne (Vanderbilt University), Hugo Sant'Anna Rodrigues (University of Georgia)
"Difference in Differences with Time-Varying Covariates"
17:45 - 18:15
Arnaud Maurel (Duke University and IZA), Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University and IZA), Attila Gyetvai (Bank of Portugal and IZA), Ekaterina Jardim (Amazon)
"Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models"
18:15 - 19:00
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