Keiti Kondi IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Internal Migration as a Response to Soil Degradation: Evidence from Malawi Abstract : We study how slow deterioration of soil, caused by climate change, affects internal migration and household resettlement.

Felix Koenig Carnegie Mellon will give a presentation on "Does Work-Time Regulation Cost Jobs? The Impact of PTO Regulation” Abstract: "Paid time off is one of the most common and most valued amenities of employment contracts. This study analyses the labor market effects of mandating paid time off.

  8:30 - 11:15 Parallel Session I     Economic History-Family Economics Room: Leclerq 61 Chair: David de la Croix Public Economics Room: Leclerq 60 Chair: Guillermo Santos   Transportation infrastructure and human capital accumulation Zhaniya Idrissova, UCLouvain Fair Capital Taxati

Simon Rabaté (Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined), Centraal Planbureau (CPB) - The Hague, Netherlands, Institut des politiques publiques (IPP) - Paris, France.) donnera une présentation sur le thème : Mortalité différentielle et redistribution dans le système de retraite français  

 !! 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.