IZA/CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE 2007)

Wednesday, September 12:

				Arrival Day

Thursday, September 13:

09:00	-	10:00		Frederico S. Finan (University of California, Berkeley and IZA*)), Claudio Ferraz (IPEA)
				"Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports"
10:00	-	11:00		Stefano Gagliarducci (University of Rome Tor Vergata and IZA*)), Tommaso Nannicini (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Paolo Naticchioni (University of Rome)
				"Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University and IZA*)), Giovanni Facchini (University of Illinois and CEPR), Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund)
				"Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?"
12:30	-	14:30		Lunch
14:30	-	15:30		Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley*)), Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego and NBER)
				"Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime"
15:30	-	16:30		Radha Iyengar (London School of Economics*))
				"I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of California's Three Strikes Law"
16:30	-	17:00		Coffee Break
17:00	-	18:30		Poster Session: Performance Measurement, Incentives, Sorting, and Productivity Pascal Courty (European University Institute and CEPR) *Gerald Marschke (State University of New York) Am I missing something? The effects of absence from class on student performance *Wiji Arulampalam (University of Warwick) Robin A. Naylor (University of Warwick) Jeremy Smith (University of Warwick) Local social capital, geographical mobility and unemployment in Europe Alexandre Janiak Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets *Francesca Mazzolari (University of California at Irvine and IZA) Giuseppe Ragusa, University of California at Irvine The Peter Principle Revisited Alexander K. Koch (Royal Holloway, University of London and IZA) *Julia Nafziger (ECARES and Solvay Business School, Universite Libre de Bruxelles) School tracking and development of cognitive skills Sari Pekkala (Charles River Associates International) *Tuomas Pekkarinen (IFAU, Uppsala University) Roope Uusitalo (Helsinki School of Economics) The Spatial Diffusion of Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from US Counties Alessandra Fogli (New York University, Minneapolis Fed, CEPR) *Stefania Marcassa (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Fed) Laura Veldkamp (New York University) Language assimilation in bilingual countries *Javier Ortega (Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ, IDEI),CEP(LSE), IZA and CEPR) Gregory Verdugo (Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ)) Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks in the Workplace Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR) *Iwan Barankay (University of Warwick and CEPR) Imran Rasul (University College London and CEPR) The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Costs and Trade Liberalization *Maria Guadalupe (Columbia University and CEPR) Julie Wulf (Wharton School)
19:00				Dinner

Friday, September 14:

09:00	-	10:00		Uwe Sunde (University of Munich and IZA*)), Armin Falk (University of Bonn, IZA and CEPR), David Huffman (IZA)
				"Do I Have What it Takes? Equilibrium Search With Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation"
10:00	-	11:00		Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto and IZA*)), Alessandro Barbarino (Federal Reserve Board)
				"The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence From Several Italian Collective Pardons"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Alexandre Mas (University of California, Berkeley and IZA*)), David Card (University of California - Berkeley), Jesse Rothstein (University of California - Berkeley)
				"Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation"
12:30	-	14:30		Lunch
14:30	-	15:30		Christian Haefke (New York University, Abu Dhabi and IZA*)), Thijs van Rens (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)
				"Wage Rigidity and Job Creation"
15:30	-	16:30		Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Johannes Kepler University Linz and IZA*)), Emilia del Bono (University of Essex), Andrea Weber (University of California, Berkeley)
				"The Effect of Unexpected Job Loss on Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Firm-Closures."
16:30	-	17:00		Coffee Break
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, September 15:

09:00	-	10:00		Reto Foellmi (University of Zurich*)), Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich and CEPR)
				"Mass consumption, exclusion, and unemployment Gradstein Mark Reversal of Fortune"
10:00	-	11:00		Mark Gradstein (Ben Gurion University and IZA*))
				"Reversal of Fortune"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:30		Joseph G. Altonji (Yale University and IZA*)), Prashant Bharadwaj (Yale University), Fabian Lange (Yale University)
				"Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes"
12:30	-	14:30		Lunch
14:30	-	15:30		Michèle Belot (Cornell University and IZA*)), V. Bhaskar (University College London and CEPR), Jeroen van de Ven (University of Amsterdam)
				"Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty"
15:30	-	16:30		Andrea Ichino (European University Institute and IZA*)), Alberto Alesina (Harvard University and CEPR)
				"Gender Based Taxation and the Organization of the Family"
16:30	-	17:00		Coffee Break
17:00				Keynote Address:
17:00	-	18:30		Sendhil Mullainathan (University of Chicago and IZA*))
				"Psychology in the Field: What Field Experiments can teach us about Psychology and Economics"
19:00				Conference Dinner

Sunday, September 16:

				Departure after Breakfast