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08:55 |
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Registration |
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09:00 |
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Welcome Remarks
David Lam (University of Michigan and IZA)
Ahmed Elsayed (IZA)
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Session A: |
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Chair:
Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan)
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09:30 |
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Lawrence Edwards (University of Cape Town and IZA) |
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"Matched Employee-Employer Panel-Data for Labor Market Analysis in Zimbabwe"
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10:00 |
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Isaac M. Mbiti (University of Virginia and IZA) |
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"Start-Up Capital for Youth"
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10:30 |
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Samuel Asher (World Bank), Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College), Charlie Rafkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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"Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New Methods and Administrative Data"
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| 10:30 |
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11:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 |
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12:00 |
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Keynote Lecture |
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Chair:
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
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Erica Field (Duke University and IZA) |
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"The Impact of Labor Market Interventions on Social Norms of Female Employment"
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| 12:00 |
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13:00 |
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Lunch |
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Session B: |
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Chair:
Dean Yang (University of Michigan and IZA)
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| 13:00 |
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13:30 |
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Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland and IZA) |
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"A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice"
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| 13:30 |
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14:00 |
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Kate Vyborny (Duke University), Erica Field (Duke University and IZA), Rob Garlick (Duke Unversity) |
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"Is Discouragement Efficient? Search and the Returns to Search for Marginal Labor Force Participants"
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| 14:00 |
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14:30 |
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Robert Garlick (Duke University), Erica Field (Duke University and IZA), Kate Vyborny (Duke University) |
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"Skills Demand and Investment in a Labor Market with Information Frictions"
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| 14:30 |
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15:00 |
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Simon Franklin (London School of Economics), Girum Abebe (Ethiopian Development Research Institute), Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics) |
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"Urban Density and Labor Markets: Evaluating Slum Redevelopment in Addis Ababa"
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15:30 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session C: |
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Chair:
Lauren Bergquist (University of Michigan)
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| 15:30 |
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16:00 |
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Caroline Krafft (St. Catherine University), Ragui Assaad (University of Minnesota and IZA) |
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"Advancing Data Capacity for Policy Innovation in Sudan: Labor Market Panel Survey 2019"
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| 16:00 |
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16:30 |
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Asadul Islam (Monash University), Gary S. Fields (Cornell University and IZA), Ummul Ruthbah (University of Dhaka), Margaret Triyana (University of Notre Dame) |
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"Training, Financing and Matching between Workers and Firms: Evidence from Bangladesh"
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17:00 |
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Todd Pugatch (Oregon State University and IZA), Moussa Blimpo (World Bank) |
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"Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda"
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| 18:00 |
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Dinner |
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Session D: |
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Chair:
Ahmed Elsayed (IZA)
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| 09:30 |
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10:00 |
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Catia Batista (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and IZA), Pedro C. Vicente (Universidade Nova de Lisboa ) |
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"Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment"
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10:30 |
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Ana C. Dammert (Carleton University and IZA) |
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"Child Labor Measurement in Agricultural Households: Seasonality, Proxy Respondent and Gender Information Gaps in Ethiopia"
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11:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session E : |
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Chair:
David Lam (University of Michigan and IZA)
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| 11:00 |
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11:30 |
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Hamna Ahmed (Lahore School of Economics), Mahreen Mahmud (University of Oxford), Farah Said (Lahore School of Economics), Zunia Saif Tirmazee (Lahore School of Economics) |
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"Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry"
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12:00 |
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Nkechi S. Owoo (University of Ghana), Abena Oduro (University of Ghana), Monica L. Quayefio (University of Ghana) |
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"Examining the Implications for Household Division of Labor and Women’s Welfare Outcomes in Ghana"
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| 12:00 |
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12:10 |
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Closing Remarks
David Lam (University of Michigan and IZA)
Ahmed Elsayed (IZA)
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| 12:10 |
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13:00 |
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Lunch |
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