Julius Koschnik (LSE) will give a presentation on Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution Absract: While economic factors in directed technical and scientific change have been widely studied, the role of teacher-directed scientific change has received less attention.

Dylan Glover (INSEAD) will give a presnetation on Job Search under (Perceived) Discrimination   Abstract: Evidence is lacking on how jobseeker search effort reacts to the expected level of discrimination they face in the labor market. Bridging this gap is important for understanding the channels through which discrimination affects final labor market outcomes.

Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on Does immigrants birthplace diversity impact wages? Evidence from new migration flows composition in the US Abstract: The increasing arrival of people from different origins in high-income countries raises the issue of the coexistence and the exchange of different norms and ideas that affect productivity.

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.