4th IZA@DC Young Scholar Program

Sunday, September 27:

18:00				Welcome Dinner

Monday, September 28:

09:45	-	10:00		Welcome by Francis Vella (Georgetown University and IZA) Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA)
				Session A
				Chair: Mary Ann Bronson (Georgetown University)
10:00	-	11:00		Naomi Gershoni (Tel Aviv University), Corinne Low (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)
				"The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF"
11:00	-	12:00		Agnes Szabó-Morvai (Central European University), Anna Lovasz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
				"Does Subsidized Childcare Matter for Maternal Labor Supply? A Credible Cutoff-based Estimate at a Policy-Relevant Point"
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Students Daniela Scur and Jie Ma have lunch with Francis Vella and Luigi Pistaferri. Other students have lunch together
				Session B
				Chair: -- to be announced --
13:00	-	14:00		Bidisha Barooah (Delhi School of Economics)
				"Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India"
14:00	-	15:00		Emma Duchini (Pompeu Fabra University)
				"Information on Abliy and Provisin of Incentives: RDD Estimates on the Effect of Asignment to College Remediation"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University and IZA)
16:00	-	18:00		GU Faculty Seminar (room: Walsh 492)
				Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University and IZA)
				"Consumption Network Effects"

Tuesday, September 29:

09:00	-	12:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Students Emma Duchini and Andre Groeger have lunch with Francis Vella and Peter Arcidiacono. Other students have lunch together
				Session C
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA)
13:00	-	14:00		Michele Tuccio (University of Southampton), Jackline Wahba (University of Southampton and IZA)
				"Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms"
14:00	-	15:00		Jie Ma (McGill University)
				"How High Skilled Immigrants Affect Natives Educational and Occupational Choices"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
16:00	-	18:00		GU Faculty Seminar (room: Walsh 492)
				Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
				"Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations Using Subjective Expectations Data"

Wednesday, September 30:

				Session D
				Chair: John S. Earle (George Mason University and IZA)
10:00	-	11:00		Daphné Skandalis (CREST)
				"Peer Effects in Job Search Assistance Programs Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Search Clubs"
11:00	-	12:00		Lennart Ziegler (University of Amsterdam), Bas van der Klaauw (VU University Amsterdam and IZA), Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam and IZA)
				"Can Educational Expansion of Parents Explain Polarised Earnings of Children?"
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Students Bidisha Barooah and Lennart Ziegler have lunch with Francis Vella and Kenneth Wolpin. Other students have lunch together
13:00	-	15:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Kenneth Wolpin (University of Pennsylvania)
16:00	-	18:00		GU Faculty Seminar (room: CBN 202)
				Kenneth Wolpin (University of Pennsylvania)
				"Accounting for Mathematics Performance of High School Students in Mexico: Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom"

Thursday, October 01:

09:00	-	12:00		Individual Meetings with IZA Research Fellows
12:00	-	13:00		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Students Michele Tuccio and Agnes Szabo-Morvai have lunch with Francis Vella and Francine Blau. Other students have lunch together
				Session E
				Chair: B. Lindsay Lowell (Georgetown University)
13:00	-	14:00		André Gröger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)
				"Internal Labor Migration as a Shock-coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon"
14:00	-	15:00		Daniela Scur (University of Oxford), Renata Lemos (University of Cambridge)
				"All in the family? CEO succession and firm organization"
15:00	-	16:00		Collective Meeting with Francine D. Blau (Cornell University and IZA)
16:00	-	18:00		GU Faculty Seminar (room: CBN 203)
				Francine D. Blau (Cornell University and IZA)
				"Substitution between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women"
19:00				Conference Dinner

Friday, October 02:

10:30	-	12:30		GU Faculty Seminar (room: TBD)
				Alexandre Mas (Princeton University and IZA)
				"Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch Meeting point: In front of seminar room Students Daphne Skandalis and Naomi Gershoni have lunch with Francis Vella and Alexandre Mas. Other students have lunch together
13:30	-	14:30		Collective Meeting with Alexandre Mas (Princeton University and IZA)