Events
3rd Tinbergen Institute Conference, 2008
Microeconometric analyses of causal relations in development, education, family, health and labor economics
In recent years substantial progress has been made in developing microeconometric techniques for investigating causal effects. The use of these microeconometric techniques to deal with selectivity and endogeneity problems has become particularly popular in development, education, family, health and labor economics. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers in these areas that perform careful empirical analyses to investigate issues such as educational interventions, intergenerational mobility in health and educational outcomes, the relation between family, health and labor decisions and outcomes, the importance of early childhood conditions for outcomes during adulthood, and the impact of community level interventions in developing countries.
Location: Theater Instituut Nederland
Herengracht 168, 1016 BP
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dates: May 22-24, 2008
Photographs taken during the conference are available at:
ftp://www.tinbergen.nl/pub/pics/tia-conference
| Thursday May 22 | |
| (Chair: Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam) | |
| 09.20-10.00 | Wendy Janssens VU University Amsterdam Selection bias in the measurement of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Namibia (with Jacques van der Gaag and Tobias Rinke de Wit) |
| 10.00-10.40 | Petra Todd University of Pennsylvania School voucher effects on education and labor market outcomes: evidence from Chile  (with David Bravo and Sankar Mukhopadhyay) |
| 10.40-11.20 | Paul Gertler Berkeley Does money burn a hole in your pocket |
| 11.20-11.40 | Coffee break |
| (Chair: Edwin Leuven University of Amsterdam) | |
| 11.40-12.20 | Jesse Rothstein - Princeton On the identification of teacher quality: fixed effects, tracking and causal attribution
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| 12.20-13.00 | Guido Imbens Harvard Dealing with limited overlap in estimation of average treatment effects (with Richard Crump, Joseph Hotz and Oscar Mitnik) |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| (Chair: Gerard van den Berg VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 14.00-14.40 | Pieter Gautier VU University Amsterdam
Structural estimation of search intensity: do non employed workers search hard enough?
(with Ronald Wolthoff en Jose Luis Moraga) |
| 14.40-15.20 | Jean-Marc Robin - Paris School of Economics, Paris 1 & UCL Matching, sorting and wages (with Jeremy Lise and Costas Meghir) |
| 15.20-16.00 | Pierre-Andre Chiappori Columbia University Assortative matching on the marriage market: a structural investigation (with Bernard Salanie, Avi Tillamn and Yoram Weiss) |
| 16.00-16.20 | Coffee break |
| (Chair: Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam) | |
| 16.20-17.00 | Janet Currie Columbia University The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity (with Enrico Moretti and Stefano Della Vigna) |
| 17.00-17.40 | Maarten Lindeboom - VU University Amsterdam
Long-run Effects on Longevity of a Nutritional Shock in Early Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846-1847 (with Gerard van den Berg and France Portrait) |
| 19.00- | Conference Diner in Restaurant In de Waag on Nieuwmarkt |
| Friday May 23 | |
| (Chair: Bas van der Klaauw VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 09.20-10.00 | Elisabeth Sadoulet Berkeley Local governance and efficiency of conditional cash transfers programs: Bolsa Escola in Brazil (with Alain de Janvry and Frederico Finan) |
| 10.00-10.40 | Orazio Attanasio University College London Efficient responses to targeted cash transfers (with Valerie Lechene) |
| 10.40-11.20 | Martin Ravaillon World Bank Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas?
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| 11.20-11.40 | Coffee break |
| (Chair: Jaap Abbring VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 11.40-12.20 | Geert Ridder University of Southern California Instrumental variable estimation of nonlinear models with nonclassical measurement error using control variates (with Jin Hahn en Yingyao Hu) |
| 12.20-13.00 | Martin Browning Oxford Modelling dynamic discrete choice models with maximal heterogeneity |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| (Chair: Maarten Lindeboom VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 14.00-14.40 | Jaap Abbring VU University Amsterdam Better safe than sorry? Ex ante and ex post moral hazard in dynamic insurance data (with P.A. Chiappori and T. Zavadil) |
| 14.40-15.20 | Patrick Bajari University of Minnesota An Empirical Analysis of Hospital/lnsurer Incentive Contracts (with Steve Tadelis of Berkeley and Robert Town of Minnesota) |
| 15.20-16.00 | Dan Silverman University of Michigan Sources of advantageous selection: evidence from the medigap insurance market
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| 16.00-16.20 | Coffee break |
| (Chair: Erik Plug University of Amsterdam) | |
| 16.20-17.00 | Gerard van den Berg VU University Amsterdam Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring (with Bas van der Klaauw) |
| 17.00-17.40 | Chris Taber - University of Wisconsin Displacement, Asmmetric Information, and Heterogeneous Human Capital
(with Luojia Hu) |
| Saturday May 24 | |
| (Chair: Pieter Gautier VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 09.20-10.00 | Edwin Leuven University of Amsterdam Incentives versus sorting in tournaments: Evidence from a field experiment (with Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw) |
| 10.00-10.40 | Imran Rasul University College London Family networks and school enrolment: evidence from a randomized social experiment (with Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo de Giorgi and Marcos Rangel) |
| 10.40-11.40 | Coffee Break with poster presentations by PhD students |
| (Chair: Coen Teulings Netherlands Bureau of Economic Research) | |
| 11.40-12.20 | Holger Sieg - Carnegie Mellon University The joy of giving and the greater joy of receiving: estimating a multiple-discrete choice models of voluntary local public good provision
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| 12.20-13.00 | Phlip Oreopoulos University of Toronto The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates (with Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz) |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| (Chair: Petter Lundborg VU University Amsterdam) | |
| 14.00-14.40 | Stephane Bonhomme CEMFI Madrid Accounting for unobservables in comparing selective and comprehensive schooling
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| 14.40-15.20 | Erik Plug University of Amsterdam Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Effects: A Comparison of Methods (with Helena Holmlund and Mikael Lindahl) |
| 15.20-15.40 | Coffee break |
| (Chair: Hessel Oosterbeek University of Amsterdam) | |
| 15.40-16.20 | Mark Rosenzweig Yale The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments (with Kaivan Munshi) |
| 16.20-17.00 | Kaivan Munshi - Brown University The birth of a business community: tracing occupational migration in a developing economy
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| 17.00-18.30 | Drinks |
Organizing fellows: Jaap Abbring (VU), Hans Bloemen (VU), Gerard van den Berg (VU), Eddy van Doorslaer (EUR), Chris Elbers (VU), Pieter Gautier (VU), Jan-Willem Gunning (VU), Joop Hartog (UvA), Stefan Hochguertel (VU), Bas van der Klaauw (VU), Edwin Leuven (UvA), Maarten Lindeboom (VU), Petter Lundborg (VU), Hessel Oosterbeek (UvA), Erik Plug (UvA), Geert Ridder (USC).
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Sponsored by the
Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
,
the Ministry of Economic Affairs ,
the Ministry of Finance
and the Nederlandsche Bank
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