16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation

The program will include about 12-15 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. 

Topics include:

• Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments)
• Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients
• Labor market policies that deal with the aftermath of the Covid-pandemic
• Policies to integrate refugees and migrants into the labor market
• Relationship between labor market policies and health outcomes
• The effects of labor market policies on inequality (in wages, occupations, job tasks etc.)
• Machine learning for policy evaluation
• Identification of treatment effects

The keynote speaker is Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley, and IZA).

For more information, see the conference website.

The 16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation is an initiative of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in cooperation with CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics).