Sunday, September 21:

13:45	-	14:00		Welcome at the Lobby of Hotel Holiday Inn Georgetown
14:00				City Tour
18:00				Welcome Dinner at Restaurant "John F's" at Hotel Holiday Inn Georgetown

Monday, September 22:

				Session A: Economics of Crime
				Chair: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Queens College, CUNY and IZA )
10:00	-	11:00		Rasmus Landersø (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit), Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus University), Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus University)
				"School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile"
11:00	-	12:00		Rocco d'Este (University of Warwick)
				"The Effect of Stolen Goods Markets on Crime: Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment"
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting Point: In front of seminar room Deepak Varshney and Selen Savsin join the lunch with Justin Wolfers and Francis Vella Other students have lunch together
				Session B: Migration / Networks
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA )
13:00	-	14:00		Mette Foged (University of Copenhagen), Giovanni Peri (UC Davis and NBER)
				"Immigrants and Native Workers - New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data"
14:00	-	15:00		Salvatore Lo Bello (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Iacopo Marchio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
				"Parental Links and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the UK"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan and IZA)
				GU Faculty Seminar (Carbarn 202)
16:00	-	18:00		Justin Wolfers (University of Michigan and IZA )
				"Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations"

Tuesday, September 23:

09:00	-	12:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting Point: In front of seminar room Rasmus Landerso and Rocco D'Este join the lunch with Kevin Lang and Francis Vella Other students have lunch together
				Session C: Unemployment
				Chair: John S. Earle (George Mason University and IZA )
13:00	-	14:00		Nynke De Groot (Free University Amsterdam), Bas van der Klaauw (VU University Amsterdam)
				"The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to UI Benefits"
14:00	-	15:00		Robert Mahlstedt (IZA), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA), Steffen Künn (IZA)
				"The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Kevin Lang (Boston University and IZA)
				GU Faculty Seminar (7th Floor ICC)
16:00	-	18:00		Kevin Lang (Boston University and IZA )
				"The Misuse of Ordinal Scales: Some Partial Solutions with Applications to the Black-White Test Score Gap and Happiness Scales"

Wednesday, September 24:

				Session D: Development / Labor Demand
				Chair: Martin Ravallion (Georgetown University)
10:00	-	11:00		Deepak Varshney (Delhi School of Economics), Deepti Goel (Delhi School of Economics), J.V. Meenakshi (Delhi School of Economics)
				"The Impact of MGNREGA on Cropping Pattern, Wages and Labor Use"
11:00	-	12:00		Selen Savsin (Orebro University), Linda Anderron (Orebro University), Patrik Karpaty (Orebro University)
				"Labor Demand, Offshoring and Inshoring: Evidence from Swedish Firm-Level Data"
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Nynke de Groot and Robert Mahlstedt join the lunch with Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis Vella Other students have lunch together
12:00	-	15:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
				GU Faculty Seminar (Carbarn 202)
16:00	-	18:00		Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
				"Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?"

Thursday, September 25:

09:00	-	12:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Salvatore Lo Bello and Pawel Bukowski join the lunch with Caroline M. Hoxby and Francis Vella Other students have lunch together
				Session E: Public Policy
				Chair: Caitlin Brown (Georgetown University)
13:00	-	14:00		Pawel Bukowski (Central European University)
				"Hidden Tracking or Mixing? The Educational Market and Sorting of Students within the Polish Comprehensive Education."
14:00	-	15:00		Jochem Zweerink (VU University Amsterdam), Hans Bloemen (VU University Amsterdam), Stefan Hochguertel (VU University Amsterdam)
				"Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural experiment"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Caroline M. Hoxby (Stanford University)
				GU Faculty Seminar (Carbarn 201)
16:00	-	18:00		Caroline M. Hoxby (Stanford University)
				"Expanding College Opportunities for Low-Income, High-Achieving Students"
19:00				Conference Dinner at “Mai Thai of Georgetown”, 3251 Prospect Street, NW

Friday, September 26:

				GU Faculty Seminar (WGR 405)
10:30	-	12:30		John Kennan (University of Wisconsin-Madison and IZA )
				"Immigration Restrictions and Labor Market Skills"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Mette Foged and Jochem Zweerink join the lunch with John Kennan and Francis Vella Other students have lunch together
13:30	-	14:30		Collective Meeting with John Kennan (University of Wisconsin-Madison and IZA)