Fediris Workshop Regards prospectifs sur les finances de la Région Bruxelles Capitale:  à la croisée des institutions et de la dynamique socio-économique​" --- "De toekomst van de Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest financiën: de rol van de instellingen en socio-economische dynamiek".   Ce workshop  fait partie du projet de recherche FEDIRIS (UCLouvain), financé par INNOVIRIS.

Rohini Somanathan (Dehli School of Economics) will give a presentation on Nudging Marriage Norms through Conditional Transfers Abstract: We explore the ability of conditional cash transfer programs to reduce child marriages in the presence of heterogeneous social norms.  Contrary to popular belief, we show that groups strong child marriage norms can exhibit larger program effects for a

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Leo Czajka IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Fraud Detection under Limited State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Senegal   Abstract: Information on taxpayers is essential to efficiently allocate tax administrations' scarce resources in low income countries, but it is complex to collect.

Eva Raiber (Aix-Marseille University) will give a presentation on For better or for babies? The effect of the two-child policy in China on who gets married   Abstract: Can fertility policies have unintended effects on who gets married? We investigate the effect of the relaxation of the one-child policy, one of the strictest large-scale fertility policies of all time, on marriage.

Nathan Lachapelle IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain will give a presentation on Introducing the degressivity of unemployment benefits: does it bring unemployed back to work Abstract: We estimate the causal effect of unemployment benefits (UB) on the transition to work and job quality by exploiting a Belgian reform that changed a constant unemployment benefit profile into a declining one, but only for cl

Sophie Hatte (ENS Lyon) will give a presentation on Connecting the Unconnected: Facebook Access and Female Political Representation in Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: Can social media promote female access to political positions? Internet and social media have facilitated a number of evolutions regarding ideas, perceptions and attitudes towards women and their role in society.

Michela Giorcelli UCLA will give a presentation on The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes Abstract: This paper studies the effects of business school education on manager career outcomes, using evidence from the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT), that offered MBA-style education to middle managers and production supervisors working at

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Andreas Typhonides (University of Cyprus) will give a presentation on The Cross Section of Household Preferences and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from high frequency data. Abstract: By leveraging high-frequency retail consumption data from the US, we non-parametrically (set) identify the distribution of household preferences.