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.

Lamis Kattan (Georgetown University in Qatar) will give a presentation on Gender-Based Labor Legislation and Employment: Historical Evidence from the United States Abstract: Gender-based labor laws are designed to improve women's conditions and potentially increase their participation on the labor market, but their effects can be undermined if employers substitute away from female labor.

Clement Malgouyres (CREST) will give a presentation on From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers Abstract: Introducing a new measure of scientific proximity between private firms and public research groups and exploiting a multi-billion euro financing program of academic clusters in France, we provide causal evidence of spillovers from academic research to

Hamzeh Arabzadeh (RWTH Aachen University ) will give a presentation on Distribution of natural resource rents and deindustrialization: the role of luxury goods Abstract: Developing natural resource-rich countries are important destinations for luxury manufacturing goods, while they are not capable of producing these products domestically.

Hannes Mueller (IAE Barcelona) Will give a presentation on Dynamic Early Warning and Action Model Abstract: This document presents the outcome of two modules developed for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO): 1) a forecast model which uses machine learning and text downloads to predict outbreaks and intensity of internal armed conflict.

Ales Marsal (National Bank of Slovakia) will give a presentation on Prescriptions for Monetary Policy when Inflation Is High Abstract: Inflation in most western advanced economies has been rising at a fast pace since the middle of 2021.