!! CANCELLED !! Gilat Levy LSE will give a presentation on Political social-learning: short-term memory and cycles of polarisation Abstract: In this paper we explore the effect of short-term memory on political outcomes in a model in which politics is viewed as a collective learning process.

Mathilde Pourtois IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Hiring subsidies for low-skilled youths in Wallonia: Short-term impact on employment Abstract: Targeted labour cost reductions are commonly used to tackle unemployment of disadvantaged groups in the labour market. The intent is to encourage firms to hire workers from a specific group by lowering their costs.

Olivier Sterck Oxford University will give a presentation on The Freedom to Choose: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Cash Transfer Restrictions Abstract: Should cash transfer programmes restrict consumer choice? For example, should food assistance delivered in cash be restricted to food and exclude temptation goods?

!! CANCELLED !! Marion Richard IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on TBA Abstract:  

Jean-Baptiste Michau Polytechnique will give a presentation on Fiscal Policy under Secular Stagnation: An Optimal Pump-Priming Strategy Abstract: How can the government move the economy from a secular stagnation equilibrium, with under-employment and a permanently binding zero lower bound, to a neoclassical equilibrium, with full employment?

Elie Vidal-Naquet (AMSE) will give a presentation on Commuting costs and spatial job search Abstract: Among a series of environmental measures taken in 2008, the French government implemented in 2009 the half-reimbursement by the employer of the public transport costs.

Laurence J. Kranich SUNY at Albany will give a presentation on Subject to Influence: Endogenous Effects on (Social) Preferences     Abstract:

Matthew Curtis ULB will give a presentation on Cultural Inheritance and the European Marriage Pattern Abstract: Eric Turkheimer famously stated as a Law "All human behavioral traits are heritable.'' But this poses a puzzle for pre-industrial demographic systems, such as the European Marriage Pattern, where individuals made behavioral choices that limited fertility.

Pilar Garcia-Gomez Erasmus University of  Rotterdam will give a presentation on Gender and performance of collaborative research: evidence from student teams Abstract: Research is increasingly a collaborative team exercise involving multiple researchers, yet little is known about how the composition of such teams affects their research output.

Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg) will give a presentation on New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration Abstract: We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to address the question of how people revise their migration decisions when facing changes in the global environment.