Conferences & workshop

Workshop on Frontiers in Measurement and Survey Methods

 

Program

Day 1: Wednesday 7 May


8:30 – 9:00

Registration and Welcome

9:00 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture: Andrew Caplin (New York University)
Earnings Risk and Earnings Shocks over the Life-Cycle: Insights from the Copenhagen Life Panel (with Søren Leth-Petersen)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:30 Session I: Labor/Firms

Lea Best (ifo Institut)
The Impact of Interest: Firm’s Investment Sensitivity to Interest Rates (with Benjamin Born and Manuel Menkhoff)

Davud Rostam (University of Mannheim)
Where to Invest? Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers (with Sebastian Blesse, Florian Buhlmann, and Philipp Heil)

Mario Amore Daniele (Bocconi University)
The Economics of Working Environments: Measurements and Outcomes (with Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, and Zeyu Zhao)

Armando Miano (University of Naples Federico II)
Understanding Occupational Mobility (with Pascal Heß)

Chair: Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 – 15:30 Session II: Macro

Alexander Dietrich (Danmarks Nationalbank)
Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations (with Alexander M. Dietrich, Edward S. Knotek II, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth, Robert W. Rich, and Michael Weber)

Dimitris Georgarakos (European Central Bank)
The Causal Effects of Inflation Uncertainty on Households’ Beliefs and Actions (with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion, and Geoff Kenny)

Vitaliia Yaremko (Trinity College Dublin)
Spillovers in Macroeconomic Expectations and Labor Supply: Implications for Wage-Price Spirals (with ChaeWon Baek)

Chair: Olympia Bover (CEMFI)

15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 16:50 Session III: Public

Flavio Cunha (Rice University)
Unpacking the mechanisms of a parenting intervention

Francesco Capozza (WZB)
Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S. (with Krishna Srinivasan)

Chair: Roberto Nisticò (University of Naples Federico II)

16:55 – 17:05 Introducing the Measurement Lab (MeToD)
Orazio Attanasio (Yale University)

16:05 – 17:15 The Italian Survey of Consumer Expectations (ISCE)
Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II)

17:15 – 18:15 Roundtable: Use of Alternative Measurement Tools in Large Organizations
Wilbert van der Klaauw (New York Fed)
Ernesto Villanueva (Banco de España)
Alfonso Rosolia (Banca d’Italia)

20:00 Social Dinner – Ristorante La Bersagliera

Day 2: Thursday 8 May

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture: Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)
Subjective Expectations: Progress and Challenges

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:30 Session IV: Methods

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI)
Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics (with Orazio Attanasio, Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo)

Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University)
Simulating the Survey of Professional Forecasters with Large Language Models (with Anne Lundgaard Hansen, John J. Horton, Sophia Kazinnik, and Ali Zarifhonarvar)

Dante Donati (Columbia University)
Adaptive Survey Sampling via Advertising Platforms (with Nandan Rao)

Jonathan Chapman (University of Bologna)
Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation (with Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv, and Colin Camerer)

Chair: Marco Stenborg Petterson (University of Naples Federico II)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 – 15:30 Session V: Gender and Families

Søren Leth-Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
The Daddy Effect: Partner Leave and the Alignment of Maternal Partner with Reality (with Andrew Caplin and Chris Tonetti)

Gizem Kosar (New York Fed)
Information-Sharing Within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses (with Adeline Delavande and Basit Zafar)

Michele Giannola (University of Naples Federico II)
A Mentorship Program for Women’s Empowerment (with Marco Nieddu, Lorenzo Pandolfi, and Valeria Zurla)

Chair: Margherita Borella (University of Turin)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Session VI: Education

Pamela Giustinelli (Bocconi University)
Outcomes, Counterfactuals, and Elicited Beliefs: Evidence from Higher Education Admissions (with Lars J. Kirkebøen Edwin Leuven)

Shihang Hou (IAB)
How Do Parents Affect the College Education Choices of Their Children? (with Adrian Lerche and Malte Sandner)

Louis-Pierre Lepage (SOFI, Stockholm University)
Anticipated Gender Discrimination and College Major Choice (with Xiaomeng Li and Basit Zafar)

Chair: Patrizia Ordine (University of Calabria)

Posters

Silke Anger (IAB and University of Bamberg)
Helping High-School Students in Choosing Their Careers: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale School Policy in Germany (with Malte Sandner, Sarah Bernhard, Hans Dietrich, Alexander Patzina, and Carina Toussaint)

Gabriella Conti (University College London)
Drawing the Inner Self: Comparing Traditional and Portrait-Based Child Development Measures (with Lorena Moreno, Bernard Moscoso, and Arianna Savo)

Elena Fumagalli (Utrecht University)
Gender differences in attitudes about the society and the economy. The role of response behavior (with Laura Fumagalli)

Laura Fumagalli (University of Essex)
Eliciting and Shaping Beliefs About Shared Parental Leave (with Greta Morando and Sonkurt Sen)

Eleonora Granziera (Norges Bank)
Five Facts About Inflation Expectations: Evidence from Four Different Groups of Agents (with Tuva Marie Fastbø, Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli, Lovisa Reiche, and Michael Weber)

Inês Gonçalves Raposo (Bocconi University)
Inflation Expectations, Wages and On-the-Job Search

Jessica Piccolo (University of Padova)
Households’ Macroeconomic Beliefs: The Role of Education (with Alessia Russo, Eleonora Granziera, and Efrem Castelnuovo)

Scientific and Organizing Committee
Orazio Attanasio (Yale University)
Michele Giannola (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Tullio Jappelli (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Armando Miano (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)
Valeria Zurla (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II)