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Joint briq/IZA Workshop: Recent Developments in the Economics of Socio-emotional Skills
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Program |
+++ presentation: 40 minutes +++ floor discussion: 5 minutes +++ Thursday, May 18:
08:30 |
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09:20 |
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Registration and Coffee |
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09:20 |
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09:30 |
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Opening Remarks Armin Falk(briq, University of Bonn and IZA) |
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Session A |
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09:30 |
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10:15 |
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Sule Alan(University of Essex), Seda Ertac (Koc University) |
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"Belief in Hard Work and Altruism: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment" |
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10:15 |
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11:00 |
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Victoria L. Prowse(Purdue University and IZA), Damon Clark (University of California, Irvine and IZA), David Gill (Purdue University and IZA), Mark Rush (University of Florida) |
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"Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments" |
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11:00 |
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11:45 |
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Orla Doyle(University College Dublin) |
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"The First 2,000 Days and Children�s Cognitive and Socio-emotional Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting" |
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11:45 |
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13:15 |
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Lunch |
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Session B |
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13:15 |
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14:00 |
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Victoria Baranov(University of Melbourne), Sonia R. Bhalotra (University of Essex and IZA), Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich and IZA), Joanna Maselko (University of North Carolina) |
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"Maternal Depression, Parenting Behaviors and Child Development: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial" |
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14:00 |
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14:45 |
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Judith Saurer(CESifo), Christina Felfe (University of St. Gallen), Martin Kocher (University of Munich), Helmut Rainer (University of Munich), Thomas Siedler (University of Hamburg and IZA) |
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"Immigration, Naturalization, and Discrimination: Combining a Natural Experiment with a Large-scale Trust Experiment in Schools" |
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14:45 |
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15:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session C |
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15:15 |
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16:00 |
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Silke Anger(Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA), Georg Camehl (DIW Berlin), Frauke Peter (DIW Berlin) |
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"Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits" |
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16:00 |
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16:45 |
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Bart H.H. Golsteyn(Maastricht University and IZA), Ulf Z�litz (briq and IZA), Arjan Non (Maastricht University) |
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"The Impact of Peer Personality on Educational Achievement" |
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16:45 |
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21:30 |
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Social Program and Dinner |
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Friday, May 19:
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Session D |
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09:15 |
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10:00 |
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Henry E. Siu(University of British Columbia), Guido Matias Cortes (University of Manchester), Nir Jaimovich (University of Southern California) |
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"The "End of Men" and Rise of Women in the High-skilled Labor Market" |
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10:00 |
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10:45 |
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Tuomas Pekkarinen(VATT, Helsinki and IZA ), Markus Jokela (University of Helsinki), Matti Sarvim�ki (Aalto University), Marko Tervi� (Aalto University), Roope Uusitalo (University of Jyv�skyl� and IZA) |
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"Secular Rise in Economically Valuable Personality Traits" |
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10:45 |
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11:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session D continued |
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11:15 |
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12:00 |
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Krzysztof Karbownik(Northwestern University), David Autor (MIT and IZA), David N. Figlio (Northwestern University and IZA), Jeffrey Roth (University of Florida), Melanie Wasserman (MIT) |
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"Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes" |
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12:00 |
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13:30 |
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Lunch |
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Session E |
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13:30 |
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14:15 |
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Katja Maria Kaufmann(University of Mannheim and IZA), Matthias Messner (University of Cologne) |
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"Birth Order Differences in Personality Traits: Existence, Origins and Long-run Consequences" |
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14:15 |
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15:00 |
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Sarah Fl�che(CEP, London School of Economics) |
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"Teacher Quality, Test Scores, Non-cognitive Skills: Evidence from Primary School Teachers in the UK" |
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15:00 |
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15:45 |
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Teodora Boneva(University College London and IZA), Christopher Rauh (University of Cambridge) |
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"Motives for Educational Attainment" |
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15:45 |
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16:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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Session F |
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16:15 |
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17:00 |
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Miriam Gensowski(University of Copenhagen and IZA), Steven G. Ludeke (University of Southern Denmark), Oliver P. John (University of California, Berkeley), Simon Calmar Andersen (Aarhus University) |
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"The Development of Academic Under-Confidence � A National Assessment of Children and Adolescents" |
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17:00 |
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17:45 |
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Pia Pinger(University of Bonn, briq and IZA), Armin Falk (briq, University of Bonn and IZA), Fabian Kosse (briq and IZA), Hannah Schildberg-H�risch (University of D�sseldorf and IZA) |
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"(In)Equality of Opportunity, Mentoring, and Critical Educational Decisions" |
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