ESSLE 2018 - Programme
CEPR/IZA Annual Labour Economics Symposium
Sciences Po
Cevipof - 98, rue de l’Université - 75007 Paris - Room Percheron
September 20-21, 2018
Programme (pdf)
Thursday, September 20
10:00 - 10:30 Registration and coffee
10:30 - 11:15 Victor Lavy (Hebrew U Jerusalem, U of Warwick, IZA and CEPR), Edith Sand (Bank of Israel) and Moses Shayo (Hebrew U Jerusalem)
“Charity Begins at Home (and in School): Religion-based discrimination”
11:15 – 12:00 Thomas Breda (PSE and IZA), Julien Grenet (PSE), Marion Monnet (PSE), Clémentine van Effenterre (Harvard Kennedy School and IZA)
“Can female role models reduce the gender gap in science? Evidence from classroom intervention in French high schools”
12:00 - 13:00 Buffet lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Oriana Bandiera (LSE, IZA and CEPR), Greg Fischer (LSE and CEPR), Andrea Prat (Columbia U and CEPR) and Erina Ytsma (MIT Sloan)
“Do women respond less to performance pay? Building evidence from multiple experiments”
13:45 - 14:30 Abigail Adams (U Oxford and CEPR)
“The cost of caring: The gender pay gap in a gender-blind labour market”
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45 Oriana Bandiera (LSE, IZA and CEPR), Vittorio Bassi (U Southern California), Robin Burgess (LSE and CEPR), Imran Rasul (UCL, IZA and CEPR), Munshi Sulaiman (LSE) and Anna Vitali (UCL)
“The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda”
15:45 - 16:30 Robert Akerlof (U Warwick), Anik Ashraf (U Warwick), Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEPR), Atonu Rabbani (U of Dhaka), Christopher Woodruff (U Oxford, IZA and CEPR)
“(S)weathering the storm: Firing, relational contracts and productivity in a Bangladeshi Garment Factory”
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:45 Joan Monras (CEMFI, IZA and CEPR), Javier Vázquez Grenno (U Barcelona) and Ferran Elias (U Copenhagen)
“Understanding the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants”
17:45 - 18:30 Manudeep Bhuller (U Oslo and IZA), Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego and IZA), Katrine Løken (Norwegian School of Economics, IZA and CEPR) and Magne Mogstad (U Chicago and IZA)
“Spillover effects of incarceration”
Friday, September 21
09:00 - 09:45 Pierre Cahuc (CREST-ENSAE, IZA and CEPR), Franck Malherbet (CREST-ENSAE and IZA) and Julien Prat (CREST-ENSAE and IZA)
“The detrimental effects of employment protection legislation on fragile employment”
09:45 - 10:30 Gabriella Conti (UCL), Rita Ginja (U Bergen and IZA) and Renata Narita (U Sao Paulo)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Thomas Le Barbanchon (U Bocconi, IZA and CEPR), Roland Rathelot (U Warwick and CEPR) and Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD)
“Gender differentials in reservation utility: Evidence from administrative data”
11:45 - 12:30 Patrick Arni (U Bristol and IZA) and Yanos Zylberberg (U Bristol)
“Unemployment Insurance and Learning: Evidence from Reservation Wages”
12:30 - 13:30 Buffet lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Simon Jäger (MIT and IZA), Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley) and Josef Zweimüller (U Zurich, IZA and CEPR)
“Marginal jobs and job surplus: Evidence from separations and unemployment insurance”
14:15 – 15:00 Andreas Kettermann (U Zurich), Andreas Mueller (Columbia U and IZA) and Josef Zweimüller (U Zurich, IZA and CEPR)
“Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data”
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Keynote address: Jesse Rothstein (UC Berkeley and IZA)
Presenters are marked in bold. Each presenter has 45 minutes, including questions from the floor
Organisers: Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po, CEP, CEPR, IZA); Daniel Hamermesh (Barnard College New York and IZA); Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University of London, CEP, CEPR and IZA).