David Weil (Brown University) will give a presentation on Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure Abstract: We develop a novel method for assessing the effect of constraints imposed by spatially-fixed natural resources on aggregate economic output.

Christian Pröbsting (KU Leuven) will give a presentation on A putty-clay model to evaluate the aggregate and distributional effects of a carbon tax Abstract: Which firms and households will be most impacted by a carbon tax? To answer that question, I set up a heterogenous agent, multi-sector model with putty-clay technology.

Lorenzo Trimarchi (Université de Namur ) will give a presentation on Environmental Political Cycles Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of adverse business cycle shocks on environmental regulation.

Sandro Ambühl (University of Zurich) will give a presentation on Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Nutrition Assistance Abstract: Poverty assistance is often administered in-kind even though cash transfers might raise recipients’ welfare more effectively.

Diego Malo Rico (IRES/LIDAM, UClouvain) will give a presentation on Static Model of Violent Groups: Give me my Dollars! Abstract: African countries, where most contemporary civil conflicts are concentrated, have a high unexplained variation in the number of violent groups.

Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics) will give a presentation on The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India Abstract: We study the effects and incidence of one of the world’s largest affirmative action programs in schooling: a 25% quota in all Indian private schools for disadvantaged students.

Sylvia Perrachi (University of Luxembourg) will give a presentation on The Migration Crisis in the Local News: Evidence from the French-Italian Border. Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of local exposure to the migrant crisis on the local news market.

Kim Ruhl (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will give a presentation on Mitigating international supply-chain risk with inventories and fast transport Abstract: We study, theoretically and empirically, how firms use inventories and alternative transport modes in the presence of demand and supply shocks.

Cristina Lafuente Martinez (CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Hysteresis for the young: search capital and unemployment Abstract: This paper argues that search ability should be considered a distinct type of human capital. Workers are endowed with a search ability that determines their effectiveness of search, or their intrinsic job arrival rate.

Giulio Zanella (Università di Bologna) will give a presentation on College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004 Abstract : University access has greatly expanded during the past decades and further growth figures prominently in political agendas.