BÜRO BERLIN

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 12:30 Uhr – 13:30 Uhr

Titel: Coping with weather shocks (joint work with Simon Görlach)

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 10:15 Uhr – 11:45 Uhr

Titel: Demand for Emergency Room Services and Air Pollution: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Abstract: We leverage the universe of administrative public healthcare records in Mexico to provide the first nationwide assessment of hospitalizations linked to PM2.5 exposure in a developing country. To identify the causal impact of PM2.5 on emergency room service demand, we exploit quasi-random air pollution shocks caused by variations in the height of the planetary boundary layer across Mexican municipalities. Our findings reveal that a marginal increase in PM2.5 leads to a 2.3% rise in emergency room admission rates. This effect varies significantly across age groups and is primarily driven by respiratory conditions associated with air pollution, alongside a range of previously unexplored health issues.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development (joint with Lara Bohnet, Jules Gazeaud and Julia Seither)

Abstract: International migration can contribute importantly to economic development in countries of origin and destination. We hypothesize that these migration effects depend on immigrant integration. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to experimentally evaluate the impact of providing information and of a role model intervention to promote immigrants’ integration among Cape Verdeans in Portugal. Providing immigrants with a low-cost scalable information app is particularly effective promoting integration outcomes such as quality of employment, migrant regular status and contact with natives. It furthermore affects those left behind. Targeting migrant integration barriers in the destination country improves political participation and gender equality norms in the country of origin.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Rescue on Stage: Border Enforcement and Public Attention in the Mediterranean Sea

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Der Tag startet um 11:00 Uhr mit einer herzlichen Begrüßung und der Präsentation der Projektziele. Danach beginnen die Vorstellungen der Projektergebnisse und die darauf aufbauenden Diskussionen. Nach der Mittagspause folgen zwei Impulsvorträge, an die sich zum Abschluss eine moderierte Diskussion anschließt.

Zeit: 11.00 Uhr - 15.25 Uhr

Ort: Ernst-Reuter-Haus, Berlin, Raum M. 107

Das vollständige Programm mit Referent:innen und Vortragstiteln finden Sie hier.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 10:30 Uhr – 11:30 Uhr

Titel: The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes

Abstract: Freedom of speech is central to democracy, but protests that amplify extremist views expose a critical trade-off between civil liberties and public safety. This paper investigates how right-wing demonstrations affect the incidence of hate crimes, focusing on Germany’s largest far-right movement since World War II. Leveraging a difference-in-differences framework with instrumental variable and event-study approaches, we find that a 20% increase in local protest attendance nearly doubles hate crime occurrences. We explore three potential mechanisms—signaling, agitation, and coordination—by examining protest dynamics, spatial diffusion, media influence, counter-mobilization, and crime characteristics. Our analysis reveals that large protests primarily act as signals of broad xenophobic support, legitimizing extremist violence. This signaling effect propagates through right-wing social media networks and is intensified by local newspaper coverage and Twitter discussions. Consequently, large protests shift local equilibria, resulting in sustained higher levels of violence primarily perpetrated by repeat offenders. Notably, these protests trigger resistance predominantly online, rather than physical counter-protests.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Der Tag beginnt um 9:00 Uhr mit einem Meet & Greet, bei dem sich die Teilnehmenden kurz vorstellen können, um den Austausch und die Kontakte während des Tages und darüber hinaus zu fördern. Danach folgen sechs Präsentationen, die von Kaffee- und Mittagspausen unterbrochen werden. Am Ende des Tages sind Sie herzlich eingeladen, an einer optionalen Führung durch das historische ESMT-Gebäude teilzunehmen.

Zeit: 9.00 Uhr - 15.10 Uhr

Ort: Andreas-Dombret-Saal der ESMT Berlin, Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin

Das vollständige Programm mit Referent:innen und Vortragstiteln finden Sie hier.

Teilnahme nur auf Einladung. Wenn Sie an einer Teilnahme interessiert sind, kontaktieren Sie bitte cara.ebert@rwi-essen.de.

Das Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) veranstaltet jährlich einen Workshop für Doktoranden, die sich mit Themen der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit beschäftigen. Diese Workshops bieten Doktoranden die Möglichkeit, ihre laufenden Arbeiten vorzustellen und kritisches Feedback zu erhalten.

Der 10. Doktorandenworkshop findet am 6. Juni 2025 am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) in Hamburg statt.

Wir freuen uns besonders, dass Stefania Lovo (University of Reading) unsere Einladung angenommen hat, einen Keynote-Vortrag zu halten. Der diesjährige Workshop wird durch das Stipendium „Grow Your Idea!“ des Geo.X-Netzwerks gefördert.

Das Programm für den 10. DENeB-PhD-Workshop finden Sie hier.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Occupational Aspirations and Investments in Education: Experimental Evidence from Cambodia

Abstract: Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions, which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1,715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day career-guidance workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations increased educational investments. We document substantial heterogeneity in treatment effects by baseline student performance. While the workshop increased schooling efforts of high-performing students, treated low-performing students reduced their educational investments. We develop a simple model that explains this treatment effect heterogeneity by baseline performance.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Das RWI wird gemeinsam mit den RatSWD im Berliner Büro einen RWI-Impuls zum Thema „Auf dem Weg zum Bildungsverlaufsregister?!“ organisieren. Die Veranstaltung wird durch ein Frühstück begleitet.

Datum: 26. Juni 2025

Uhrzeit: 8:00 bis 10:00 Uhr

RWI-Impuls ist ein exklusives Round Table Format, in dem das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung ausgewählte Akteure aus Politik, Zivilgesellschaft und Medien einlädt, gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftler:innen in einem vertraulichen Rahmen über wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu aktuellen, gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Themen zu diskutieren. Die Veranstaltungen folgen den Chatham-Haus-Regeln. Die Veranstaltung ist geladenen Gästen vorbehalten.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Replications in household surveys and Introduction to Lab

Abstract:

The replicability crisis highlights the need for more transparent and robust research practices. Lab² (Lab-Square) is a collaborative initiative using meta-scientific approaches to improve research credibility. Through large-scale projects we assess the generalizability of findings across populations, methods and analytical approaches. Lab² also investigates how research decisions are made, examining the role of beliefs, biases and norms in shaping scientific practices.  This talk will introduce Lab²'s approach, ongoing projects and its role in fostering transparency, reducing publication bias and strengthening the reliability of scientific findings. 

Workshop: Kausale Auswirkungen und Mechanismen der Forschungs-, Technologie- und Innovationspolitik

Datum: 24.07.2025 und 25.07.2025

Ort: Leibniz-Geschäftsstelle Berlin (Chausseestr. 111, 10115 Berlin)

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Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Titel: The direct and indirect effects of stimulus policy: Evidence from Germany's Cash for Clunkers Program

Ort: Berliner Büro

Uhrzeit: 9 - 10:30 Uhr

Titel: „Irreguläre Migration steuern: Was funktioniert und was nicht?"

Die Teilnahme ist nur auf Einladung möglich.

Ort: Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin

Datum: 25. November 2024

Titel: „Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences"

ZBW, WZB und RWI freuen sich, zum Leibniz Open Science Day 2024 einzuladen: Meta-Perspektiven in den Sozialwissenschaften. Mit der wachsenden Bedeutung der Sozialwissenschaften bei der Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen steigt auch die Bedeutung einer metawissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Wir brauchen ein besseres Verständnis dafür, wie Evidenz generiert und an Gesellschaft und Politik kommuniziert wird. Insbesondere Replikationen und Metastudien werden immer wichtiger, um die Zuverlässigkeit und Gültigkeit von Forschungsergebnissen zu gewährleisten. Diese Ansätze tragen dazu bei, Verzerrungen zu erkennen, die methodischen Standards zu verbessern und die Transparenz zu fördern, was letztlich die Glaubwürdigkeit wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse erhöht.

Die Keynote wird von Harry Collins (Cardiff University) gehalten.

Wir laden Forscher ein, ihre ausführlichen Zusammenfassungen (max. 750 Wörter) bis zum 15. September 2024 per E-Mail an Heike Henningsen (h.henningsen@zbw.eu) zu schicken. Die Benachrichtigungen werden bis zum 30. September 2024 verschickt. Für Nachwuchswissenschaftler ist eine begrenzte Reiseunterstützung möglich. Bitte geben Sie in Ihrem Antrag an, ob Sie eine Förderung benötigen.

Wir laden alle Interessierten ein, sich für den Leibniz Open Science Day zu registrieren. Bitte registrieren Sie sich hier.

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung und zum Programm finden Sie hier.

Wie können wir eine sozial gerechte Mobilität gestalten? – Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, und was diese für die Verkehrspolitik bedeuten

Datum: Dienstag, 12. November 2024
Ort: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Chausseestraße 111, Berlin
Zeit: 18 bis 20 Uhr, mit anschließendem Ausklang

Der Verkehrssektor steht vor großen Herausforderungen im Zuge der Mobilitätswende. Eine der relevanten Fragen dabei ist, wie dieser Wandel ökologisch und zugleich sozial gerecht gestaltet werden kann.

Dazu laden das Bündnis sozialverträgliche Mobilitätswende, das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung und die Stiftung Mercator zur Diskussionsveranstaltung ein. Das Bündnis sozialverträgliche Mobilitätswende bringt dabei konkrete Forderungen zu einer gerechten Mobilitätswende aus der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Arbeit ein, während das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus der evidenzbasierten Mobilitätsforschung beiträgt. Gemeinsam möchten wir einen Raum für offenen Dialog schaffen und eine spannende Paneldiskussion ermöglichen. Unsere Panelisten beleuchten das Thema aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Hier treffen verschiedene Positionen und Interessen einer sozialverträglichen Gestaltung der Mobilitätswende aufeinander.

Dabei wollen wir zentrale Fragen in den Fokus rücken: Was zeichnet eine sozial gerechte Verkehrswende aus? Wie kann eine nachhaltige und klimaverträgliche Mobilität gefördert werden? Wie werden konkrete verkehrspolitische Maßnahmen und ihre potenziellen Reformoptionen in der Bevölkerung wahrgenommen? Welche Barrieren bestehen im Zugang zu nachhaltiger Mobilität und wie können
sie überwunden werden?

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Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Heterogenous mental health impacts of a forced relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Effects of economic and social incentives on bureaucratic quality - Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: What Works for Working Couples? Work Arrangements, Maternal Labor Supply, and the Division of Home Production

Abstract: We document how a change to work arrangements reduces the child penalty in labor supply for women, and that the consequent more equal distribution of household income does not translate into a more equal division of home production between mothers and fathers. The Australian 2009 Fair Work Act explicitly entitled parents of young children to request a (reasonable) change in work arrangements. Leveraging variation in the timing of the law, timing of childbirth, and the bite of the law across different occupations and industries, we establish three main results. First, the Fair Work Act was used by new mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers’ child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 percent drop. Third, while this implies a significant shift towards equality in the female- and male-shares of household income, we do not observe any changes in the female (disproportionate) share of home production.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:15 - 11:45 Uhr

Titel: Green transition – An opportunity or a trap for Africa?

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: (Don't) Take it Easy: Which Job Offers Get Rejected and Why?

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 14 - 15 Uhr

Titel: „Warming Attitudes towards Refugees: How Networks Shape Attitude Change in Rural Uganda”

Abstract:

Interventions aimed at changing attitudes are often focused on individual responses.  However, attitudes do not shift in isolation; individuals are embedded in rich social networks that can reinforce, push against, or emulate changes. We conducted a field experiment in 16 villages in northwestern Uganda which randomly assigns a perspective-taking treatment aimed at reducing prejudice towards refugees to 40% of the households in each village. Our design includes a measure of full household social networks as well as measures of individual attitudes at baseline, immediately after treatment, and at endline after a two week interim in which people were free to discuss the issue with others in their village. We find that the treatment does warm attitudes of the treated on average in the short-term, though with considerable variance. We also find that people's attitudes change in the longer-term based on informal conversations with others in the network after treatment. By the endline, the control attitudes warm on average too, consistent with classical spillovers. Inconsistent with classical spillovers, the treated attitudes warm even further, and the ultimate attitudes of the control are a function of not just the presence of treated network neighbors but these neighbors' individual reactions to the treatment. We argue that the results are consistent with a period of "social processing" in which revealed reactions ultimately shape the attitudes of both the treated and the control. We stipulate a simple model of such a process and show that it can generate non-classical spillovers like those we observe. Taken together, these findings show the importance of understanding the social process that can reinforce or unravel individual-level attitude change; it appears essential to designing interventions with a lasting effect on attitudes.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Zoom-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 13 - 14 Uhr

Titel: „The spatial distribution of developmet RCTs"

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Titel: „Minimum wages, wage dispersion and financial constraints in firms“

Abstract: This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We introduce financial frictions into a search and matching labor market model with stochastic job matching, imperfect information, and endogenous effort. In line with the empirical literature, the model predicts that a higher minimum wage reduces hirings and separations. Firms become more selective such that their employment and wage dispersion fall. If effort increases strongly, firms may increase employment at the expense of higher wage dispersion. Financially constrained firms are more selective and reward effort less. As a result, within-firm wage dispersion and employment in these firms fall more with the minimum wage.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: The long-run Effects of Immigration: Evidence Across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement

Abstract: We identify the causal effect of immigration on productivity, wages, incomes, and rents in the long run using a spatial regression discontinuity design (RDD). Our spatial RDD builds on a short-lived barrier to refugee settlement within West Germany after WWII. Comparing municipalities in a narrow band around this barrier, we find no socio-economic differences before WWII. In particular, population density had always been identical. But when the barrier to refugee settlement was removed, population density was about 20 percentage points higher where refugees had been allowed to settle. In 2020, 70 years later, the higher population density still persists. Today’s higher density coincides with higher productivity, wages, and rents. We argue that these economic differences are the result of agglomeration economies driven by the higher population density where refugees had been allowed settle. We present three findings on the nature of these agglomeration economies.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr

Titel: Learning to see the world’s opportunities: memory, mental experiencing and the economic lives of the vulnerable

Abstract: Work in neuroscience and psychology has underscored the role of mental experiencing for decision making. Using the same senses that we use to perceive the world, mental experiencing enables us to compare the consequences of our actions across different decisions. Trauma affects our memory and thus may impede our ability to use mental experiencing effectively. We measure the quality of mental experiencing and evaluate how it impacts economic outcomes through two randomized controlled trials with vulnerable populations that have suffered trauma and violence. In a sample of refugees in Ethiopia, learning to generate "positive" mental experiences related to the host economy leads to increased intentions to stay, more economic activity, and improved wellbeing. In Colombia, we embed controlled mental experiencing within an entrepreneurship program to explore whether it may enhance its effectiveness. We compare outcomes of standard business training, business training with mental experiencing, and no training. Participants in the standard business training see declines in both mental experiencing and earnings. These negative effects disappear in the mental experiencing arm. The highest gains from improved mental experiencing accrue to the most vulnerable and traumatized participants inthe sample, highlighting the need for trauma-informed programs.

Auf Einladung von Cara Ebert wird Prof. Dr. Margherita Comola (University Paris-Saclay, Paris School of Economics) am 05.03.2024 im RWI Policy Lab Invites Seminar zum Thema „Heterogeneous peer effects and gender-based interventions for teenage obesity” vortragen. Einen Entwurf des Papiers inklusive Abstract finden Sie hier. Eine Teilnahme ist sowohl vor Ort (Büro Berlin) als auch virtuell möglich. Margherita Comola wird in Berlin vor Ort sein.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass es nicht gestattet ist, das Seminar aufzuzeichnen, und leiten Sie den Besprechungslink nicht weiter. Sollte Ihnen jemand außerhalb des RWI bekannt sein, die/der Interesse an dem Vortrag hat, geben Sie mir bitte Bescheid. Ich werde dann eine separate Einladung verschicken.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Titel: Effects of economic and social incentives on bureaucratic quality - Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 13 - 14 Uhr

Titel: „Volume, risk, complexity: what makes development”

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

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

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

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

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

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

Ort: Virtuell mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

Ort: Hybrid im Berliner Büro oder mit Zoom Link

Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr

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

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

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

Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 10:15 - 11:45 Uhr

Titel: „Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?“

Abstract: How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up various job offers, which differ in associations with specific castes. Workers are less willing to accept offers that are linked to castes other than their own, especially when those castes rank lower in the social hierarchy. Workers forego large payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, even when these decisions are made in private.

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

Link zur Veranstaltungshomepage

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.