Workshop Programme
DAY 1: Thursday 22 May
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.30: Keynote: Emily Breza [Harvard]
TBD
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Session 1
Vatsal Khandelwal [University of Exeter] – Spatial Inequality and Informality in Kenya’s Firm Network (with Verena Wiedemann, Benard K. Kirui and Peter W. Chacha)
Paolo Zacchia [CERGE-EI] – Matching to Suppliers in the Production Network: a Quantitative Framework (with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña)
Sampreet Singh Goraya [Stockholm School of Economics] – Identity, Market Access, and Demand-led diversification (with Akhil Ilango)
12.30-14-00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Session 2
Orazio Attanasio [Yale] – TBD
Qinyou Hu [Aalto University and University of Texas at San Antonio] – Breaking Down Bullying: Empathy, Social Networks, and Adolescents
Palaash Bhargava [Columbia University] – Popularity and Student Networks: Tradeoffs in Resolving Social Isolation through Deskmate Assignments
16.00-16.30: Coffee break
16.30-18: Session 3
Luisa Cefalà [UC Berkeley] – The Economic Consequences of Knowledge Hoarding (with Franck Irakoze, Pedro Naso and Nicholas Swanson)
Florian Grosset-Touba [CREST, Institut Polytechnique de Paris] – Complementarities in Labor Supply: How Joint Commuting Shapes Work Decisions (with
Aletheia Donald)
Nikita Sangwan [Queen’s University Belfast] – Social Networks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform (with Farzana Afridi,
Amrita Dhillon and Sanchari Roy)
20.00-23.00: Social Dinner @ Ristorante La Bersagliera (Borgo Marinari, 10/11 Banchina Santa Lucia, 80132, Napoli)
DAY 2: Friday 23 May
9.30 -10.30: Keynote: Yves Zenou [Monash Business School]
Ethnic mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a randomized field experiment and a structural model (with V. Boucher, S. Tumen, M. Vlassopoulos and J. Wahba)
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Session 4
Luca Paolo Merlino [Université Libre de Bruxelles] – Affective Polarization, Media Outlets, and Opinion Dynamics (with S. Della Lena and Yves Zenou)
Nilmini Herath [London School of Economics] – Modelling social learning with polarizing forces
Jaromir Kovarik [University of the Basque Country] – Diffusion of mobile banking among rural women: Incentivizing local leaders vs. a marketing campaign (with Pablo
Brañas-Garza, Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez)
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Session 5
Nicholas Swanson [Stanford] – All in the Family: Kinship Pressure and Firm-Worker Matching
Louise Paul-Delvaux [World Bank] – Does the Arrival of a Formal Financial Institution alter Community-Level Cooperation? Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages (with
Christine Binzel, Erica Field, Rohini Pande)
Felix Rusche [University of Mannheim] – Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment
Organized by
Matteo Bizzarri [Federico II and CSEF]
Stefano Fiorin [Bocconi]
Michele Giannola [Federico II and CSEF]
Roberto Nisticò [Federico II and CSEF]
Mattea Stein [Federico II and CSEF]
Event Manager
Stefania Maddaluno [CSEF], Alessia Abbate
Financial Support
Financial support from CSEF, DiSES, University of Naples Federico II, LEAP Bocconi University, MUR/NextGenerationEU