Francesca Jensenius (University of Oslo) will give a presentation on Political Motives and the News Market: Quasi-experimental Evidence and New Data from India Abstract: To what extent are media markets in democracies influenced by changes in political motives?

Nathan Lachapelle (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Using regression kink design to infer causal effects of unemployment benefits on the young Abstract: In this paper, I exploit a kink in the unemployment benefits schedule to investigate whether higher unemployment benefits leads to lower transition rates to employment and to higher unemployment duration.

John Morrow (Kings College London) will give a presentation on Technological Distance: Grow Up or Grow Out? Abstract: Using multiproduct sales patterns and transitive production relationships across firms, we recover a continuous measure of distance between every pair of products and firms to uncover disjoint firm-product clusters.

Most economists working abroad come back home for Christmas. So, why not bring them together for a conference? This simple observation led to the creation of the Christmas Meeting of Belgian Economists. It originally started at IRES (UCLouvain) in 2011 and rapidly 3 other universities joined the adventure.

Programme Monday 19th December 2022 Chairman : Fabio Mariani 08:30 - 09:00 Welcome Coffee 09:00-09:50 Mara Pasquamaria Squicciarini, “Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic” (joint with D. Coluccia, G. Dossi, and E.

Antoine Bozio (PSE) will give a presentation on Follow the Money! Combining Household and Firm-Level Evidence to Unravel the Tax Elasticity of Dividends Abstract: We estimate behavioral responses to dividend taxation using recent French reforms: a rate hike and, five years later, a cut.

Victor Gay (Toulouse School of Economics) will give a presentation on Collateral Damage? How World War One Changed the Way Women Work Abstract: Drawing on individual-level data from the 1911 and 1921 population censuses and census-linking techniques, we analyze the consequences of World War I in France on female labor force participation.

Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg) will give a presentation on Striking a bargain: narrative identification of wage bargaining shocks Abstract : We quantify the effects of wage bargaining shocks on macroeconomic aggregates using a structural vector auto-regression model for Germany. We identify exogenous variation in bargaining power from episodes of minimum wage introduction and industrial disputes.

Travis Lybbert University of California Davis will give a presentation on Religiosity and Educational Attainment Among the Roma: Shedding an Oppositional Identity? Abstract: The Roma have faced poverty, discrimination and even enslavement and extermination since immigrating to Europe from India in the early 12thcentury.

Ritwik Bannerjee (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) will give a presentation on Using social recognition to address the gender difference in volunteering for low-promotability tasks Abstract : Research shows that women volunteer significantly more for tasks that people prefer others to complete. Such tasks carry little monetary incentives because of their very nature.