4th Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors (AMERB)

Friday, April 27:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration / Coffee and Tea
09:00	-	09:15		Welcoming Remarks: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA) Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)
				Session A: Victimization
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA)
09:15	-	10:15		Horst Entorf (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA)
				"Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or both? An Econometric Analysis of the Victim-Offender Overlap"
				Discussant: Susan Laury (Georgia State University)
10:15	-	11:15		Brendon McConnell (University College London and IZA), Imran Rasul (University College London and IZA)
				"Ethnicity, Sentencing and 9/11"
				Discussant: Thomas F. Crossley (Koc University)
11:15	-	12:15		Albert Young-Il Kim (Sogang University), Jungmin Lee (Sogang University and IZA)
				"Long Run Impact of Traumatic Experience on Attitudes toward Risk: Study of Korean War and Its Impact on Risk Aversion"
				Discussant: Bulent Anil (Bahcesehir University)
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session B: To Decriminalize or Not to Decriminalize
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)
13:30	-	14:30		Scott Cunningham (Baylor University), Manisha Shah (University of California at Irvine)
				"Does decriminalization of indoor prostitution reduce rape and gonorrhea? Evidence from Rhode Island's natural experiment"
				Discussant: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA)
14:30	-	15:30		Pedro Portugal (Banco de Portugal and IZA), Ana Tavares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
				"The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal"
				Discussant: N. Meltem Daysal (Tilburg University and IZA)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
				Session C: Alcohol and Health
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
15:45	-	16:45		Colin P. Green (Lancaster University), Maria Navarro (Lancaster University)
				"Play Hard, Shirk Hard? The Effect of Bar Hours Regulation on Absence and Health"
				Discussant: Aydogan Ulker (Deakin University)
16:45	-	17:45		Tuomas Pekkarinen (Aalto University and IZA), Per Johansson (Uppsala University and IZA), Jouko Verho (Social Insurance Institution of Finland)
				"Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies"
				Discussant: Abdurrahman B. Aydemir (Sabanci University and IZA)
19:00				Dinner at Roof Garden Restaurant at Bahcesehir University
				Honorary Speech
				Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				"The Perils of Scientific Policy Advice"

Saturday, April 28:

08:45	-	09:15		Coffee and Tea
				Session D: Recidivism
				Chair: Alfonso Sousa-Poza (University of Hohenheim and IZA)
09:15	-	10:15		Benjamin Hansen (University of Oregon)
				"Punishment and Recidivism in Drunk Driving"
				Discussant: Albert Young-Il Kim (Sogang University)
10:15	-	11:15		Signe Andersen (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit)
				"Serving Time or Serving the Community? Exploiting a Policy Reform to Assess the Causal Effects of Community Service on Income, Social Benefit Dependency and Recidivism"
				Discussant: Gokce Uysal (Bahcesehir University)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Keynote Address
11:30	-	12:30		Stephen Machin (University College London and IZA)
				"Terror Attacks and Hate Crime"
12:30	-	13:45		Lunch
				Session E: Perspectives of Risky Behaviors on Health and Education
				Chair: Insan Tunali (Koc University)
13:45	-	14:45		N. Meltem Daysal (Tilburg University and IZA), Chiara Orsini (University of Venice)
				"Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior"
				Discussant: Benjamin Hansen (University of Oregon)
14:45	-	15:45		Elaine Kelly (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London), Imran Rasul (University College London and IZA)
				"Policing Cannabis and Drug Related Hospital Admissions: Evidence from Administrative Records"
				Discussant: Scott Cunningham (Baylor University)
15:45	-	16:45		Marcello Sartarelli (Institute of Education, University of London)
				"Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England"
				Discussant: Brendon McConnell (University College London and IZA)
19:30				Dinner Cruise

Sunday, April 29:

08:45	-	09:15		Coffee and Tea
				Session F: Birth Weight and Child Weight
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA)
09:15	-	10:15		Alfonso Sousa-Poza (University of Hohenheim and IZA), Wencke Gwozdz (Copenhagen Business School), et al. (IDEFICS Consortium)
				"Maternal Employment and Child Obesity – A European Perspective"
				Discussant: Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
10:15	-	11:15		Daniel I. Rees (University of Colorado Denver and IZA), Brian Duncan (University of Colorado Denver), Hani Mansour (University of Colorado Denver), Gordon B. Dahl (University of California, San Diego)
				"Emotional Cues and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl"
				Discussant: Colin P. Green (Lancaster University)
11:15	-	13:00		Closing Remarks and Farewell Luncheon