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13th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists

Organizers: Dan A. Black (University of Chicago), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
Location:Managementzentrum of Deutsche Post DHL; Breitbrunner Strasse 26; 82266 Inning/ Buch; Germany
Date:July 24, 2014 - July 27, 2014

Event Manager:
Viola Hartmann (IZA)


Program
+++ presentation: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++

Thursday, July 24:

 
12:00 - 13:45   Open Lunch
 
 
13:45 - 14:00   Welcoming Remarks
Dan A. Black (University of Chicago and IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
 
 
        Session A
  Chair: Dan A. Black (University of Chicago)
 
14:00 - 14:40   Anne C. Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Pilar Garcia-Gomez (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  "Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform"
 
14:40 - 15:20   Kathleen Mullen (University of Chicago), David Autor (MIT and NBER), Nicole Maestas (RAND), Alexander Strand (U.S. Social Security Administration)
  "Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Adminstrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants"
 
 
 
15:20 - 15:50   Coffee Break
 
 
        Session A (continued)
  Chair: Dan A. Black (University of Chicago)
 
15:50 - 16:30   Peter Bergman (Columbia University)
  "Educational Attainment, Peer Effects and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries"
 
16:30 - 17:10   Ulf Zölitz (Maastricht University), Jan Feld (Gothenburg University)
  "Understanding Peer Effects – On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects"
 
17:10 - 17:50   Xuan Chen (Renmin University of China), Carlos Flores (California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo), Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (State University of New York at Binghamton)
  "Bounds on Population Average Treatment Effects with an Instrumental Variable"
 
17:50 - 18:30   Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan), Eleanor Dillon (Arizona State University)
  "The Impact of College Mismatch"
 
 
19:00 - 20:30   Dinner
 
 
20:30       Roundtable about IZA Publishing
 
 

Friday, July 25:

        Session B
  Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University)
 
08:30 - 09:10   April Yanyuan Wu (Boston College), Matthew S. Rutledge (Boston College), Mashfiqur R. Khan (Boston College)
  "How Do Subjective Longevity Expectations Influence Retirement Plans?"
 
09:10 - 09:50   Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Serena Rhee (University of Pennsylvania)
  "Population Aging, Migration Spillovers, and the Decline in Interstate Migration"
 
 
 
09:50 - 10:20   Coffee Break
 
 
        Session B (continued)
  Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University)
 
10:20 - 11:00   Sankar Mukhopadhyay (University of Nevada, Reno), Joseph T. Crouse (University of Nevada Reno)
  "Causal Effects of BMI on Wage"
 
11:00 - 11:40   Ylenia Brilli (Catholic University Milan)
  "Mother's Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development"
 
11:40 - 12:20   Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University), Tomer Blumkin (Ben-Gurion University), Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv University)
  "The Redistributive Role of Child Benefits Revisited"
 
 
12:20 - 13:50   Lunch
 
 
        Session C
  Chair: Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan)
 
13:50 - 14:30   Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain), Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)
  "The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data"
 
14:30 - 15:10   Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics), Pedro Carneiro (University College London), Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics)
  "How Does Labor Demand React to Changes in the Supply of Skills? Evidence from Schooling Reforms"
 
 
 
15:10 - 15:40   Coffee Break
 
 
        Session C (continued)
  Chair: Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan)
 
15:40 - 16:20   Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Queens College, CUNY ), Natalia Nollenberger (School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London), Almudena Sevilla (School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London)
  "The Role of Culture in Explaining the Educational Gender Gaps Evidence from Second-Generation Migrants"
 
16:20 - 17:00   Barbara Hofmann (MEA, University of Mannheim), Katrin Hohmeyer (Institute for Employment Research)
  "The Effect of the Business Cycle at College Graduation on Fertility"
 
17:00 - 17:40   Hugo Reis (Banco de Portugal)
  "Girls' School Attendance: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Structural Approach"
 
17:40 - 18:20   Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California), Todd Pugatch (Oregon State University)
  "U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice"
 
 
19:15       Dinner
 
 

Saturday, July 26:

        Session D
  Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
 
08:30 - 09:10   Magnus Lofstrom (Public Policy Institute of California), Steven Raphael (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California’s Public Safety Realignment Reform"
 
09:10 - 09:50   Giovanni Sulis (University of Cagliari), Gabriele Cardullo (University of Genoa), Maurizio Conti (University of Genoa)
  "Sunk Capital, Unions and the Hold-Up Problem: Theory and Evidence from Sectoral Data"
 
 
09:50 - 10:20   Coffee Break
 
        Session D (continued)
  Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
 
10:20 - 11:00   Maryam Naghsh Nejad (IZA), Andrew Young (West Virginia University)
  "Female Brain Drains and Women’s Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows"
 
11:00 - 11:40   Ana Nuevo-Chiquero (University of Sheffield), Maria Cubel (Universitat de Barcelona), Santiago Sanchez-Pages (Edinburgh School of Economics), Marian Vidal-Fernandez (University of New South Wales and IZA)
  "Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab"
 
11:40 - 12:20   Pablo A. Acosta (World Bank), Wendy Cunningham (World Bank), Noel Muller (World Bank), Miguel Sarzosa (University of Maryland)
  "Beyond Qualifications: Labor Market Returns to Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits in Urban Colombia"
 
 
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
 
 
14:45       Social Program
 
 
19:00       Dinner
 
 

Sunday, July 27:

 
        Departure after Breakfast
 
 

List of Participants

Pablo A. Acosta (World Bank and IZA)
Peter Bergman (Columbia University)
Dan A. Black (University of Chicago and IZA)
Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California)
Ylenia Brilli (Catholic University Milan)
Xuan Chen (Renmin University of China)
Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA)
Anne C. Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam and IZA)
Barbara Hofmann (University of Mannheim)
Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain and IZA)
Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics)
Magnus Lofstrom (Public Policy Institute of California and IZA)
Sankar Mukhopadhyay (University of Nevada, Reno)
Kathleen Mullen (RAND)
Maryam Naghsh Nejad (IZA)
Ana Nuevo-Chiquero (University of Barcelona)
Hugo Reis (Banco de Portugal and IZA)
Nuria Rodríguez-Planas (Queens College, CUNY and IZA)
Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University and IZA)
Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan and IZA)
Giovanni Sulis (University of Cagliari)
April Yanyuan Wu (Boston College)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
Ulf Zölitz (Maastricht University)


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