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Mathilde Valero (AMSE) will give a presentation on Household Income Shocks and Sibling Composition: Evidence from Rural Tanzania Abstract: Exploiting exogenous variation in drought conditions across districts in Tanzania, this paper investigates the effects of climate change on...

Regina T. Riphahn (Erlangen-Nürnberg) Will give a presentation on Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies Abstract: This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships...

John Roemer (Yale University) will gave a presentation on How we cooperate: A theory of Kantian optimization Abstract: Economic theory has focused almost exclusively on how humans compete with each other in their economic activity, culminating in general equilibrium...

Matthias Dopeke (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe Abstract: Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a sharp rise in the college wage premium....