Louvain FRESH Workshop 2024 Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: Lessons from pre-modern Europe. Organizers David de la Croix (UCLouvain), Sandra de Pleijt ( Wageningen University), Paula Gobbi (ULB). Programme June 23th 19:00-22:00 Informal dinner for early arrivers at "Le Cambridge".   June 24th 8:30-9:00 Welcome coffee 9:00-10:00 Plen

The Spring Session of the Doctoral Workshop 2024 will take place on Friday, May 31, 2024 at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. The workshop will be followed by a Cheese&Wine in the evening. Registration To register, please fill in this form. The registration deadline for presenters is May 20, 2024.

Riccardo Turati (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) will give a presentation on Digging Up Trenches: Populism, Selective Mobility & the Political Polarization of Italian Municipalities Abstract: We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities.

Patrick Arni (University of Bristol) will give a presentation on Heterogeneous Impacts of Trade Shocks on Workers Abstract: This paper identifies the causal effects of trade shocks on worker outcomes.

Huixin Bi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) will give a presentation on Dynamics of Job Search Effort and Vacancies: Evidence from Classified Advertisements Abstract: We introduce a new dataset of job search effort and vacancies from the early twentieth century, providing new insights of the response of search effort to labor market conditions. Combining scanned images of U.S.

Patrick Arni (University of Bristol) will giva a presentation on TBA Abstract:

Lan Lin (Peking University) will give a presentation on Digital Imports and Firm-Level Employment Abstract:

Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï (University of Trento) will give a presentation on Digital Technologies and Firm's Employment and Training Abstract:This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm level data.

Jaime Marques Pereira (Lancaster University Management School) will give a presentation on Trumping the News: A High-Frequency Analysis Abstract: Does mainstream media actively amplifies politicians' social media statements, and does this amplification influence individuals' political opinions? I first study cable news coverage of Donald J.

Pauline Corblet (NYU Abu Dhabi) will give a presentation on The Impact of Education Expansions on Life-cycle Earnings Abstract: I evidence changes in wage profiles over the life-cycle between the late 1990s and 2010s in France. Young labor market entrants enjoy higher wages than more senior workers at the same age but experience a flatter wage progression.