The following papers will be presented at this symposium.
Please see the Programme for further details.

Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting
Francesco Devicienti (University of Turin), Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

Crime after a Fertility Shock: Offending Behaviour of the 'Children of the Wall'
Arnaud Chevalier (Royal Holloway University of London and IZA), Olivier Marie (Maastricht University)

Does Dual Employment Protection Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
Juan Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IZA and CEPR), Salvador Ortigueira (Carlos III University of Madrid), Rodolfo Stucchi (Inter-American Development Bank)

Do Parents Choose the School for Their Children under the Boston Mechanism?: Evidence from Barcelona
Caterina Calsamiglia (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Maia Güell (University of Edinburgh, IZA and CEPR)

Do Performance Targets Affect Financial Support to Schools? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores
Marcello Sartarelli (University of Alicante), Allessandro Tampieri (University of Bologna)

Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and Its Impact on Labor Turnover
Olivier Charlot (University of Cergy-Pontoise), Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and IZA), Franck Malherbet (CREST and IZA)

Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us
David Johnston (Monash University), Wang-Sheng Lee (Deakin University and IZA)

Fostering the Emancipation of Young People: Spain's Rental Subsidy
Ainhoa Aparicio (Collegio Carlo Alberto and IZA), Veruska Oppedisano (University College London)

Homeownership and Entrepreneurship
Philippe Bracke (London School of Economics), Christian Hilber (London School of Economics), Olmo Silva (London School of Economics and IZA)

Human Capital, Employment Protection and Growth in Europe
Maurizio Conti (University of Genova), Giovanni Sulis (University of Cagliari)

Incentives from Curriculum Tracking
Kristian Koerselman (University of Helsinki)

Is Search Intensity Countercyclical
Semih Tumen (University of Chicago and Central Bank of Turkey)

The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and IZA), Natalia Zinovyeva (CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP)

Latent Structure and Quantiles of the Treatment Effect Distribution
Erich Battistin (University of Padua and IZA), Carlos Lamarche (University of Oklahoma and IZA), Enrico Rettore (University of Padua)

Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes
Orla Doyle (University College Dublin), Caitriona Logue (University College Dublin), Seong Hyeok Moon (University of Chicago)

On the Differential Impact of the Recent Economic Downturn on Work Safety by Nativity: The Spanish Experience
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University and IZA), Christina Borra (University of Seville)

Parental Leave and Medium-Run Cognitive Child Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Natalia Danzer (University of Munich and IZA), Victor Lavy (Hebrew University, Jerusalem and IZA)

Social Insurance Networks
Simen Markussen (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research), Knut Røed (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research and IZA)

Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization
Esther Hauk (Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE), Barcelona), Javier Ortega (City University London and IZA)

Sex and the Single Girl: Cultural Persistence and the Pill
Kelly Ragan (Stockholm School of Economics)

Short-Time Work and the Macroeconomy
Almut Balleer (Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)), Britta Gehrke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Wolfgang Lechthaler (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Christian Merkl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA)

Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Olivier Bargain (University of Aix-Marseille II and IZA), Mathias Dolls (IZA), Herwig Immervoll (World Bank and IZA), Dirk Neumann (IZA), Andreas Peichl (IZA), Nico Pestel (IZA), Sebastian Siegloch (IZA)

The Effect of Personality on Socio-Economic Outcomes: The Importance of Early Conscientiousness
Tyas Prevoo (Maastricht University), Bas ter Weel (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Anlaysis and IZA)

The God Relinquished: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Religious Beliefs and Smoking from the German Separation
Luca Nunziata (University of Padua and IZA), Veronica Toffolutti (University of Padua)

The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Alpaslan Akay (IZA), Amelie Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA)

The Spirit of the Welfare State? Adaption in the Demand for Social Insurance
Martin Ljunge (University of Copenhagen)

Time Preference, School Performance and Long-term Outcomes
Bart Golsteyn (Maastricht University and IZA), Hans Grönqvist (Stockholm University), Lena Lindahl (Stockholm University)

Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Laszlo Görke (University of Trier and IZA), Markus Pannenberg (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and IZA)

Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Regina Riphahn (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA), Daniel D. Schnitzlein (DIW)

Wage Risk, On-the-job Search and the Value of Job Mobility
Kai Liu (Norwegian School of Economics)

What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities
Christian Häfke (Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna and IZA), Michael Reiter (Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna)