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

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    G²LM|LIC & BREAD Conference on Development Economics

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    The IZA/FCDO Gender, Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries Programme (G²LM|LIC) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are pleased to announce a joint Conference on Development Economics .The conference will consist of presentations of advanced stage research by senior or junior researchers, and presentations of early stage research by junior researchers.

16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation
September 30, 2021 - October 01, 2021
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).
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