4th Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation

Thursday, October 25:

09:00	-	09:05		Introduction
				Session A: Welfare Reforms
				Chair: Gerard J. van den Berg (University of Mannheim and IZA)
09:05	-	09:45		Richard Dorsett (National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)), Richard Hendra (MDRC), Philip Robins (University of Miami)
				"Understanding Why an Intervention to Boost Employment Retention Worked Better in the US than the UK - an Analysis of Two Experiments"
09:45	-	10:25		Matthieu Chemin (McGill University), Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
				"Ex-ante and Ex-post Evaluation of the 1989 French Welfare Reform Using a Natural Experiment : The 1908 Social Laws in Alsace-Moselle"
10:25	-	10:55		Coffee Break
				Session B: Higher Education
				Chair: Patrick Arni (IZA)
10:55	-	11:35		Bas van der Klaauw (VU University Amsterdam and IZA), Nadine Ketel (VU University Amsterdam), Edwin Leuven (University of Oslo and IZA), Hessel Oosterbeek (University of Amsterdam)
				"The Return to Medical School in a Regulated Labor Market: Evidence from Admission Lotteries"
11:35	-	12:15		Sergio Urzua (University of Maryland and IZA), Tomas Rau (Catholic University of Chile), Eugenio Rojas (Ministry of Finance, Chile)
				"Higher Education Dropouts, Access to Credit, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile"
12:15	-	13:45		Lunch
13:45	-	15:15		Keynote:
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
				Raj Chetty (Harvard University and IZA) "The Transformative Role of Administrative Data in Evaluating Economic Policies"
15:15	-	15:45		Coffee Break
				Session C: Treatment Evaluation with Observational Data
				Chair: Erik Mellander (IFAU)
15:45	-	16:25		Markus Frölich (University of Mannheim and IZA), Martin Huber (University of St. Gallen)
				"Treatment Effect Evaluation in Panel Data with Endogeneity and Missing Outcomes"
16:25	-	17:05		Johan Vikström (IFAU), Per Johansson (IFAU and IZA), Ingeborg Waernbaum (Umeå University and IFAU)
				"Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Treatment Regimes with Duration Outcomes"
17:05	-	17:20		Coffee Break
				Session D: Unemployment Insurance & Firms
				Chair: Erik Mellander (IFAU)
17:20	-	18:00		Conny Wunsch (University of St. Gallen and IZA), Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen and IZA), Patrycja Scioch (Institute for Employment Research (IAB))
				"Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?"
19:15				Dinner

Friday, October 26:

				Session E: Issues in the Evaluation of Field Experiments
				Chair: Markus Frölich (University of Mannheim and IZA)
09:15	-	09:55		Barbara Sianesi (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)
				"Dealing with Randomization Bias in a Social Experiment: The Case of ERA"
09:55	-	10:35		Martin Huber (University of St. Gallen)
				"Identifying Causal Mechanisms in Experiments (primarily) Based on Inverse Probability Weighting"
10:35	-	11:05		Coffee Break
				Session F: Field Experiments on Job Search
				Chair: Johan Vikström (IFAU)
11:05	-	11:45		Luc Behaghel (Paris School of Economics and IZA), Bruno Crepon (CREST and IZA), Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics and IZA)
				"Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment"
11:45	-	12:25		Thomas Le Barbanchon (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Luc Behaghel (Paris School of Economics and IZA), Bruno Crepon (CREST and IZA)
				"Do Anonymous Resumes Make the Field More Even? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment"
12:25	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session G: Older Unemployed Workers
				Chair: Bas van der Klaauw (VU University Amsterdam and IZA)
14:00	-	14:40		Stefan Staubli (University of Zurich and IZA), Lukas Inderbitzin (University of St. Gallen), Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich and IZA)
				"Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and the Early-Retirement Decision"
14:40	-	15:20		Ulrika Vikman (IFAU), Helge Bennmarker (IFAU), Oskar Nordström Skans (IFAU and IZA)
				"Workfare for the Old and Long-term Unemployed"
15:20	-	15:30		Final Remarks
15:30				Farewell