Conferences & workshop

New Advances in Family Economics

Wednesday, May 10

09.00 – 09.30  Welcome Coffee

09.30 – 10.15 Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
Divorce with Children

10.15 – 11.00 Corinne Low (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Winning the Bread and Baking it Too: Women’s Home Production Time in the Marital Economy

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.15 Monica Costa-Dias (University of Bristol)
Education, Marriage and Child Development

12.15 – 13.00 Matthias Doepke (London School of Economics)
It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

13.00- 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 15.15 Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan)
Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions

15.15 – 16.00 Flavio Cunha (Rice University)
Reducing Bullying: Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program on Empathy Education

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.15 Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea

17.15 – 18.00 Simon Weber (University of York)
How Transferable is Utility within Marriage?

19.30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, May 11

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome Coffee

09.30 – 10.15 Yoko Okuyama (Uppsala University)
Intra-household Welfare: Theory and Application to Japanese Data

10.15 – 11.00 Costas Meghir (Yale University)
Child Development: Experimental Impacts and Mechanisms

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.15 Alessandra Voena (Stanford University)
Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions when Sons Migrate

12.15 – 13.00 Arthur Lewbel (Boston College), Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Economies of Scale to Consumption

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 15.15 Alfred Galichon (NY University)
New Computational Methods for Models of Matching with Intra-household Bargaining

15.15 – 16.00 Carla Guerriero (University of Naples Federico II & CSEF)
Choice and Rationality in Children

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.15 Bram De Rock (ECARES)
A Spouse and a House are All We Need? Housing Demand, Labor Supply and Divorce over the Lifecycle

17.15 Closing