Leo Czajka IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Fraud Detection under Limited State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Senegal   Abstract: Information on taxpayers is essential to efficiently allocate tax administrations' scarce resources in low income countries, but it is complex to collect.

Eva Raiber (Aix-Marseille University) will give a presentation on For better or for babies? The effect of the two-child policy in China on who gets married   Abstract: Can fertility policies have unintended effects on who gets married? We investigate the effect of the relaxation of the one-child policy, one of the strictest large-scale fertility policies of all time, on marriage.

Nathan Lachapelle IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Introducing the degressivity of unemployment benefits: does it bring unemployed back to work Abstract: We estimate the causal effect of unemployment benefits (UB) on the transition to work and job quality by exploiting a Belgian reform that changed a constant unemployment benefit profile into a declining one, but only for cl

Sophie Hatte (ENS Lyon) will give a presentation on Connecting the Unconnected: Facebook Access and Female Political Representation in Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: Can social media promote female access to political positions? Internet and social media have facilitated a number of evolutions regarding ideas, perceptions and attitudes towards women and their role in society.

Michela Giorcelli UCLA will give a presentation on The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes Abstract: This paper studies the effects of business school education on manager career outcomes, using evidence from the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT), that offered MBA-style education to middle managers and production supervisors working at

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Andreas Typhonides (University of Cyprus) will give a presentation on The Cross Section of Household Preferences and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from high frequency data. Abstract: By leveraging high-frequency retail consumption data from the US, we non-parametrically (set) identify the distribution of household preferences.

The 2023 Spring Doctoral Workshop will take place on May 26th at Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. We invite all the doctoral students from Université Catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur and Université Saint-Louis to present their research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions at any stage of completion are welcome.

Jing-Rong Zeng (IRES/LIDAM) will give a presentation on Keeping the Long-term Peace – The Dynamic Effects of UN Peacekeeping Missions on Local Fatalities   Abstract: This paper examines the impact of UN peacekeeping missions on conflict reduction and their long-term dynamics.

Tiziano Toniolo (IRES/LIDAM) will give a presentation on Permanent exemption from social security contributions in Belgium: An evaluation with a directed search model Abstract: Since 2016, Belgium has permanently exempted new employers from paying social security contributions to the gross wage of one of their employees.