Going into its 17th year, the Annual Migration Meeting is following a long and successful tradition of bringing together experienced scholars and talented young economists to discuss cutting-edge work on migration.
The focus of the 4th Annual Workshop on Gender and Family Economics in 2020 will be on gender economics.
Following the success of the 2016, 2018 and 2019 Jobs and Development Conferences in Washington DC and Bogotá, the World Bank, IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) the Network on Jobs and Development and UNU-WIDER are organizing a follow up conference in 2020.
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers studying organisational issues from an international comparative perspective. Contributions based on all sources of enterprise data are welcomed.
| 08:45 | - | 09:15 | Registration | ||
| 09:15 | - | 09:30 | Welcome Remarks | ||
| Session A: Effects of Environmental Policies | |||||
| 09:30 | - | 10:15 | Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics), Andreas Gerster (University of Mannheim) | ||
| "Electricity Taxation, Firm Production and Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing" | |||||
| 10:15 | - | 11:00 | Elisabeth Isaksen (London School of Economics), Misato Sato (London School of Economics), Piero Basagliai (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)) | ||
| "Indirect Impacts of Carbon Pricing on Manufacturing" | |||||
| 11:00 | - | 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 | - | 12:15 | Jacquelyn Pless (University of Oxford), Yangsiyu Lu (University of Oxford) | ||
| "The Impact of Environmental Policy on Jobs in China" | |||||
| 12:15 | - | 13:00 | Nico Pestel (IZA), Florian Wozny (IZA) | ||
| "Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals" | |||||
| 13:00 | - | 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session B: Short- and Long-term Impacts of Environmental Pollution I | |||||
| 14:00 | - | 14:45 | Alessandro Palma (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Joanna Kopinska (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Matilde Giaccherini (University of Rome Tor Vergata) | ||
| "When a (Particulate) Matter Strikes the City: Social Disparities and Health Costs of Air Pollution" | |||||
| 14:45 | - | 15:30 | Claudia Persico (American University), Joanna Venator (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | ||
| "The Effects of Local Industrial Pollution on Students and Schools" | |||||
| 15:30 | - | 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | - | 16:45 | Mariola Pytlikova (CERGE-EI and IZA), Stepan Mikula (Masaryk University) | ||
| "Air Pollution and Migration – Exploiting a Natural Experiment from the Czech Republic" | |||||
| 16:45 | - | 17:30 | Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), John Voorheis (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| "Pollution and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the 1970 Clean Air Act" | |||||
| 19:00 | Dinner | ||||
| Session C: Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Environmental Pollution II | |||||
| 09:00 | - | 09:45 | Corbett Grainger (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mingxuan Fan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | ||
| "The Impact of Air Pollution on Labor Supply in China" | |||||
| 09:45 | - | 10:30 | Juan Palacios (Maastricht University and IZA), Nico Pestel (IZA), Steffen Künn (Maastricht University and IZA) | ||
| "The Impact of Indoor Climate on Human Cognition: Evidence from Chess Tournaments" | |||||
| 10:30 | - | 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| Keynote Presentation | |||||
| 11:00 | - | 12:30 | Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) | ||
| "Childhood Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages: Evidence from China" | |||||
| 12:30 | - | 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session D: Temperature, Health, and Human Capital | |||||
| 13:30 | - | 14:15 | Joshua Graff Zivin (University of California, San Diego), Yingquan Song (Peking University), Qu Tang (Jinan University), Peng Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) | ||
| "Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China" | |||||
| 14:15 | - | 15:00 | Martin Karlsson (University of Duisburg-Essen and IZA), Nicolas Ziebarth (Cornell University and IZA), Emil Nörmark Sörensen (University of Southern Denmark), Christian Möller Dahl (University of Southern Denmark) | ||
| "Cold and Mortality in a Cross-Sectional and Lifecycle Perspective: Evidence from Competing Models" | |||||
| Session E: Energy Markets and Labor Market Outcomes | |||||
| 15:00 | - | 15:45 | Grant Jacobsen (University of Oregon), Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Justin Winikoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | ||
| "The Effects of Resource Booms on People (not Places)" | |||||
| 15:45 | - | 16:30 | Concluding Remarks and Farewell Coffee | ||
