Thursday 26th September 2013 Evening Event

6pm: Welcome drinks reception and dinner

Friday 27th September 2013

Session 1

10:00am Miikka Rokkanen (MIT)
“Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cut Off”

11:00am Britta Augsburg (IFS)
“Peer Effects in the Workplace”

12:00pm LUNCH

Session 2:

1:00pm Uta Schönberg (UCL)
“Referral-based Job Networks”

2:00pm Imran Rasul (UCL)
“Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service”

3:00pm COFFEE BREAK

Session 3: Gender and Racial Gaps

3:15pm Esteban Aucejo (LSE)
“Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in the Educational Gender Gap”

4:15pm Giacomo de Giorgi (Barcelona)
“The Gender Gap in Mathematics”

5:15pm CLOSE

6.00pm DRINKS AND DINNER

Saturday 28th September 2013

Session 4: Education, Culture and Institutions

10:00am Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi)
“Customary Norms, Inheritance and Human Capital. Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana”

11:00am Paolo Masella (Sussex)
“Long-lasting Effects of Socialist Education”

12:00pm LUNCH

Session 5: Human Capital and Early Childhood

1:00pm Christian Dustmann (UCL)
“The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice”

2:00pm Kjell Salvanes (NHH)
“Willingness to compete: Family matters”

3:00pm COFFEE BREAK

Session 6: Schools and Teaching

3:15pm Jane Cooley-Fruehwirth (Cambridge)
“How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes: Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects”

4:15pm Stéphane Bonhomme (Madrid)
“Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunity in Teacher Mobility”

5:15pm CLOSE

6.00pm DRINKS AND DINNER