Nikolaos Prodromidis(Universität Duisenburg Essen)will give a presentation on Working hours and workers’ health: Evidence from a national experiment in SwedenAbstractDespite the importance of regulating working hours for workers’ health and maintaining labour productivity, the literature lacks credible causal estimates for the short- and particularly long-run.

Alexander Yarkin(LISER and UC Davis)will give a presentation on Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' IntegrationAbstractThe global spread of the Internet and the rising salience of immigration are two of the biggest trends of the last decades.

Martin Ellison(Oxford University)will give a presentation on Liability-Driven Investors and Monetary TransmissionAbstractThe ability of monetary policy to influence the term structure of interest rates and the macroeconomy depends on the extent to which financial market participants prefer to hold bonds of different maturities.

Quinten De Wettinck (KU Leuven) will give a presentation on : Identifying sustainable diversification strategies using economic complexity theoryAbstract : Economic complexity theory has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding how the accumulation of productive knowledge and capabilities within countries drives economic diversification.

Michel De Vroey(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on What has changed in Economics over the last half-century?AbstractOur paper aims to capture the critical elements of the evolution of economics over the last half-century. To achieve such an ambitious task, we proceed in two ways. First, we engage in a history-of-economics analysis. We distinguish the following phases.

Stelios Michalopoulos(Brown University)will give a presentation on Uprooted: Human Capital and the Asia Minor Catastrophe AbstractMore than a century has passed since the abrupt exodus of 1.2 million Greek Orthodox from Anatolia and their arrival in Greece, a transformative event for the country’s social and demographic landscape. Today, one in three Greeks reports a refugee background.

Filippo Manfredini(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)will give a presentation on Universities and Growth in pre-Industrial England AbstractOxford and Cambridge were enduring institutions of pre-industrial England, shaping the nation’s economic and intellectual landscape.

Ashley Wong(Tilburg University)will give a presentation on Motherhood and the Gender Gap in Self-Employment AbstractWomen continue to be underrepresented in self-employment, and female-owned businesses tend to underperform relative to male-owned ones.

Thao Trang Nguyen(Maastricht University)will give a presentation on Special economic zones and firm performance: Evidence from Vietnamwith Karsten Mau and Tania Treibich (Maastricht University)

Morgane Rigaux(ULB) will give a presnetation on Socioeconomic determinants of household structure: evidence from IndiaAbsrtract: Household structure, defined as the composition and relationships of individuals living under the same roof, influences key economic outcomes such as education, female labor force participation, and elderly well-being.