BÜRO BERLIN

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Industrialization, returns, inequality (co-authored with Thilo Albers and Timo Stieglitz)

Abstract: How do technological revolutions impact wealth inequality? To answer this question, we turn to the industrial revolution and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on regional top wealth shares and industrialization in Prussia, we provide causal evidence that industrialization can explain the shift in the top 1 share observed over the 19th century and also led to a fattening of the wealth distribution's tail. We rationalize these effects by introducing a dynamic 2-sector structure featuring scale and dynastic type dependence into an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous returns to capital. The simulations suggest that the combination of these two features explains about half of the total increase of the top 1 share, while the other half resulted from the general increase in capital returns. 

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Long-term effects of equal sharing: Evidence from inheritance rules for land

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings

Abstract: Police accountability is essential in upholding the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the under-reporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death, including counties which appoint the sheriff as the lead death investigator, display $46 percent more under-reported police killings than their comparable adjacent counties. Drawing on a novel adapted-LATE potential outcomes' framework, we demonstrate that under-reported police killings are most often reclassified as `circumstances undetermined' homicides. We also show that counties with permissive death certification laws withhold more homicide reports from the public. The main under-reporting results are primarily driven by under-reporting of White and Hispanic deaths in our analysis sample, with the effect on Hispanic people particularly pronounced along the US-Mexico border region. We do not find evidence of moderating effects due to body-worn cameras, nor that excess under-reported killings are associated with more violence directed towards police. We do, however, note a nationwide positive correlation between the permissiveness of gun-laws and under-reported police killings. Our results do not indicate that other differences in death investigation systems – coroner vs. medical examiner, appointed vs. elected, or physician vs. non-physician – affect the under-reporting of police killings.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Does Co-Residence with Parents-in-law Reduce Women’s Employment in India?

Abstract: We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women’s employment in India. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father-in-law reduces married women’s employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference-in-difference estimates show that married women’s employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother-in-law. We investigate three classes of explanations for this: income effects, increased domestic responsibilities, and social norms. Our evidence is consistent with gender- and generational norms intersecting to constrain married women’s employment when parents-in-law co-reside.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Titel: "An Estimation and Decomposition of the Government Investment Multiplier"

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Workplace Connections and Migration: Evidence from German Reunification

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Ort: Virtuell mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

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Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr

Titel: "What a difference a day makes: Mortality effects of the school starting age"

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Titel: "Poland's Special Economic Zones: Effects on Regional Economic Development"

Ort: Virtuell mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

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Titel: Expanding Access to Schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes

Abstract: The paper uses the Universal Primary Education Program (UPE) implemented in Nigeria in 1976 to investigate the effect of wife and husband’s education on women’s empowerment. We combine regional disparities in baseline levels of enrollment with the timing of the pro- gram and the traditionally high age difference between partners to disentangle the impact of wife’s education from husband’s education. We find that the UPE had heterogeneous effects in the South compared to the North of Nigeria. In the South, women achieve more gender-equal marriages by delaying marriage by 1.23 years, and by reducing the age gap with their husband by 2 years. These women also maintain a stable education gap with their husband. In the North, unions’ characteristics remain unchanged except for the probability to marry a polygamous partner that increases when husbands are treated. In both regions, women are better off as the UPE decreases women’s tolerance of domestic violence and increases their say in decision-making (in the South only) but the mechanics of the effects differ: Northern women are made better off by the education of their husband’s whereas Southern women are better off thanks to the combined effects of their own education and their husband’s.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr

Titel: "Is Migration Reducing Labor Scarcity? Evidence From Long-Term Care"

Ort: Hybrid im Berliner Büro oder mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr

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Ort: Virtuell mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr

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Ort: Hybrid im Berliner Büro oder mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr

Titel: "Intergroup Avoidance: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Israel"

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Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Titel: "Decarbonisation and the Role of Nuclear Energy: Evidence from France"

Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

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Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Titel: "The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms: Evidence from Sickness Leave Episodes"

Uhrzeit: 10:15 - 11:45 Uhr

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Ort: Berlin

Background
Young people out of work are a population at risk in developed and developing economies alike: first, the average share of jobless youths is typically twice as high as the corresponding share among adults. Second, youth unemployment shows excess cyclical volatility, i.e. youths’ probability of job loss during recessions exceeds that of adult workers. “Scarring effects” exacerbate the consequences of youth unemployment, as time out-of-work early in the lifecycle negatively impacts long-term labor market outcomes. Fourth, in low- and middle income countries, youths struggle to enter a quality job, due to lack of skills, lack of access to education, or lack of information. Finally, all these patterns may lead to discouraging youths entirely, leaving them outside of employment, education, and training.

The Conference
The conference brings together policy makers and government officials, practitioners from NGOs, experts from international organizations, and researchers working on aspects of helping disadvantaged youths find quality employment. The focus of the conference is to learn about effective youth policies. We expect and will encourage a lively and open discussion among all conference attendees.