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09:30 |
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Welcome and Introduction by Gerard van den Berg (Free University of Amsterdam and IZA) |
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| 09:30 |
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10:15 |
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Bart Cockx (Ghent University and IZA*)), Muriel Dejemeppe (Université Catholique de Louvain) |
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"Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach"
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Discussant:
Tobias J. Klein (Tilburg University and IZA)
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| 11:00 |
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11:15 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11:15 |
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12:00 |
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Wang-Sheng Lee (Monash University and IZA*)) |
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"On Assessing the Specification of Propensity Score Models"
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Discussant:
Agne Lauzadyte (Aarhus University)
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| 12:00 |
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12:45 |
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Jose C. Galdo (Carleton University and IZA*)), Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan and IZA), Dan Black (University of Chicago) |
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"Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data"
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Discussant:
Xavier Ramos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and IZA)
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| 12:45 |
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13:45 |
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Lunch |
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| 13:45 |
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14:30 |
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Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA*)), Hans J. Baumgartner |
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"Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes"
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Discussant:
Carlos A. Flores (California Polytechnic State University)
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| 14:30 |
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15:15 |
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Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and IZA*)), Ulf Rinne (IZA and Free University of Berlin), Arne Uhlendorff (DIW and IZA) |
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"A Tale of Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs"
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Discussant:
Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Queens College, CUNY and IZA)
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| 15:15 |
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16:00 |
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Ulf Rinne (IZA*)), Marc Schneider (IZA), Arne Uhlendorff (DIW Berlin and IZA) |
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"Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs"
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Discussant:
Frank Oskamp (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
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| 16:00 |
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16:30 |
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 16:30 |
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17:15 |
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Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg*)), Eva Jozwiak (Institute for Employment Research, Nürnberg, Germany) |
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"Do Short-Term Training Programmes Activate Means-Tested Unemployment Benefit Recipients in Germany?"
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Discussant:
Wang-Sheng Lee (Monash University and IZA)
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| 17:15 |
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18:00 |
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Tobias J. Klein (Tilburg University and IZA*)) |
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"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?"
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Discussant:
Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
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| 19:00 |
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Conference Dinner |
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