Hanxiao Zhong (KU Leuven) will give a presentation on The Impact of Digital Presence on Belgian Firms’ during COVID-19  

Ella Sargsyan (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Potato to the Rescue: Home Production and Child Nutrition during Deep Economic Crises Abstract: Sufficient nutrition intake in early life is crucial for the development of human capital.

André Groeger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) will give a presentation on The Effect of Foreign Aid on Migration Abstract: Policymakers advocate for foreign aid to reduce the "root causes" of migration at origin despite a lack of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of such policies.

Andrea Caria (University of Cagliari) will give a presentation on The Remote Control of fertility: Causal evidence from the transition to digital terrestrial television in Italy Abstract: This study examines the impact of the transition from analog to digital terrestrial television (DTT) on fertility rates in Italy.

Paula Gobbi (ULB) will give a presentation on Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline Abstract: We test Le Play’s (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France’s early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local inheritance practices, imposing equal partition of assets among all children.

Toshiaki Komatsu (University College London) will give a presentation on Firm Responses and Wage Effects of Foreign Demand Shocks with Fixed Labor Costs and Monopsony   For further information on how to attend, you can contact: serena.chellini@kuleuven.be or c.depierpont@uclouvain.be

Pablo Álvarez Aragon (UNamur) will give a presentation on Ancestral Beliefs and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: This paper contributes to the explanation of the puzzle of persistently high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rustamdjan Hakimov (University of Lausanne) will give a presentation on  Behavioral measures improve AI hiring: A field experiment Abstract: The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for hiring processes is often impeded by a scarcity of comprehensive employee data.

Antonio Vicencio Betanzo (Maastricht University) will give a presentation on Inferring Input-Output Linkages with Firm-level Trade Data    

Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford University) will give a presentation on  Endogenous Regime Switching Abstract:  We examine the theory and practical implementation of Endogenous Regime Switching models, where the economic regime is driven by endogenous factors, rather than external shocks as in Markov-switching frameworks.