16th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economics

Thursday, June 22:

12:00	-	13:25		Open Lunch
13:25	-	13:30		Welcoming Remarks
				Session A
				Chair: Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University and IZA)
13:30	-	14:15		Eliza Forsythe (University of Illinois)
				"Occupational Job Ladders and the Efficient Reallocation of Displaced Workers"
14:15	-	15:00		Matias Cortes (University of Manchester), Nir Jaimovich (University of Southern California), Henry E. Siu (University of British Columbia)
				"The End of Men and Rise of Women in the High-skilled Labor Market"
15:00	-	15:45		Elisabeth Bublitz (Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI))
				"Misperceptions of Income Distributions: Cross-country Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment"
15:45	-	16:00		Coffee Break
				Session B
				Chair: Daniel S. Hamermesh (Royal Holloway, University of London and IZA)
16:00	-	16:45		Alex Eble (Columbia University), Feng Hu (University of Science and Technology Beijing)
				"Stereotypes, Role Models, and the Formation of Beliefs"
16:45	-	17:30		Massimo Anelli (Bocconi University and IZA), Kevin Shih (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kevin Williams (University of Utah)
				"Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice"
19:30				Dinner

Friday, June 23:

				Session C
				Chair: Tommaso Colussi (IZA)
08:30	-	09:15		Emma Duchini (University of Warwick ), Clémentine Van Effenterre (Paris School of Economics and IZA)
				"Do Women Want to Work More or Work More Regularly? Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
09:15	-	10:00		Ines Helm (Stockholm University ), Christina Gathmann (University of Heidelberg and IZA), Uta Schönberg (University College London and IZA)
				"Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs"
10:00	-	10:15		Coffee Break
				Session D
				Chair: Tommaso Colussi (IZA)
10:15	-	11:00		Michael Siegenthaler (ETH Zurich), Isabel Z. Martinez (LISER, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and IZA)
				"Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holiday"
11:00	-	11:45		Britta Gehrke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Enzo Weber (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
				"Identifying Asymmetric Effects of Labor Market Reforms"
11:45	-	12:30		Breno Braga (Urban Institute), Diogo Guillen (Banco Itau), Ben Thompson (University Michigan)
				"Local Government Spending and Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazil"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session E
				Chair: Holger Bonin (IZA)
13:30	-	14:15		Shuang Zhang (University of Colorado, Boulder), Douglas Almond (Columbia University), Hongbin Lin (Tsinghua University)
				"Land Reform and Sex Selection in China"
14:15	-	15:00		Seonghoon Kim (Singapore Management University), Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (Cornell University and IZA), Thomas T. Kim (Ohio State University)
				"The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi"
15:15				Social Event
20:00				Dinner

Saturday, June 24:

				Session F
				Chair: Holger Bonin (IZA)
09:00	-	09:45		Anita Staneva (University of Sydney), Colm P. Harmon (University of Sydney and IZA), Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney and IZA)
				"Early Cognitive Development and Educational Assimilation of Bilingual Children"
09:45	-	10:30		Bastian Ravesteijn (Harvard University )
				"Can Reduced Mental Health Coverage Lead to Negative Labor Market Externalities?"
10:30	-	10:45		Coffee Break
				Session G
				Chair: Daniel S. Hamermesh (Royal Holloway, University of London and IZA)
10:45	-	11:30		Monica Deza (University of Texas at Dallas), Rodney J. Andrews (University of Texas at Dallas)
				"The Effects of Local Economic Activity on Crime: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks in Dallas"
11:30	-	12:15		Jonas Maibom (Aarhus University and IZA)
				"Assessing Welfare Effects of ALMPs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data"
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session H
				Chair: Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University and IZA)
13:30	-	14:15		Marta De Philippis (Bank of Italy)
				"Multitask Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors"
14:15	-	15:00		Joshua Gottlieb (University of British Columbia), Jeffrey Clemens (University of California, San Diego)
				"When Practicing Isn't Enough: Can Human Capital Theory Explain Physicians' On-the-Job Investments?"
15:00	-	15:15		Coffee Break
				Session I
				Chair: Gerard A. Pfann (Maastricht University and IZA)
15:15	-	16:00		Elira Kuka (Southern Methodist University and IZA), Esra Kose (University of California, Davis), Na'ama Shenhav (Dartmouth College)
				"Women’s Enfranchisement and Children’s Education: The Long-run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement"
16:00	-	16:45		Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (ZEW Mannheim), Terry Gregory (ZEW Mannheim), Anna Salomons (Utrecht University)
				"Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe"
16:45	-	17:00		Closing Remarks
19:30				Dinner

Sunday, June 25:

				Departure after breakfast