Land Property Rights Protection and the Backfire of a Well-intended Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Policy 

A Danger to Self and Others? The Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization 

Microcredit Expansion and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Thailand 

Weather shocks, migration, and in-place adaptation 

(Avoiding) Layoff Costs and Precautionary Job Search 

Firm Expansion in Imperfect Labor Markets 

Who Works Where and Why? Parental Networks and the Labor Market 

Children after the Fall of Saigon: Long-run Labor Market Outcomes of Vietnam’s Postwar Generation  

Learning from the Origins: Immigrants’ Networks and Cultural Change during the European Refugee Crisis 

Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration  

Education as Insurance against Resource Busts: Evidence from the 19th Century 

Do far-right mayors increase the probability of hate-crimes? Evidence from Italy 

Fertility and Family Leave Policies in Germany: Optimal Policy Design in a Dynamic Framework 

Early Career Shocks, Skill Match, and the Nature of Human Capital 

Local Monopsony Power 

Paying (and paving) my way: the impacts of extra class participation on primary-school pupils in Vietnam 

Labor Market Polarization and Intergenerational Mobility: Theory and Evidence 

Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects in Health 

How valuable are business networks? Evidence from sales managers in international markets (with C.Lenoir) 

Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration 

"Robots and Reshoring: Evidence from Mexican Labor Markets" and "The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US" (with A. Sarto and M. Tabellini) 

Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers? Analysis of a Selective Immigration Policy 

Young people and the Great Recession (joint with Sandra McNally). 

Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 percent 

Who hires? Who gets hired? Employment protection and selection in the hiring process 

The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Middle-aged Households' Savings and Consumption Expenditures 

Rent Sharing in Europe (joint with David Soskice and Stephen Machin). 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Effrosyni Adamopoulou (University of Mannheim and IZA) "The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption" 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminar Cécile Magnée (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) 'Does the timing of the final test in primary school affect educational outcomes of migrant children?' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Andreas Lichter (CReAM and Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf) "Profit Taxation, Firms' R&D Expenditures and Innovation" (joint with Ingo Isphording, Max Löffler, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Pöge, Sebastian Siegloch) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Shuaizhang Feng (Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University) "Peer effects with endogenous group selection: An application to local and migrant children of elementary schools in Shanghai" (joint with Yuanyuan Chen and Chao Yang)   

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Giulia Giupponi (IFS and Bocconi University) "Minimum wages and within-firm wage inequality" (joint with Stephen Machin) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Mette Foged (Univertsity of Copenhagen) Integrating Refugees: Language Training or Work-First Incentives? (joint with Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Iben Bolvig, Linea Hasager and Giovanni Peri) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Jérôme Adda (Bocconi University) 'Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Nicolas Grau (Universidad de Chile) 'A Simple Test for Taste-Based Discrimination: The Prediction-Based Outcome Test' (joint with Damián Vergara) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Jakob Hennig (University Carlos III Madrid) 'Refugee shelters, Neighbourhood Quality and Electoral Outcomes in Germany' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Robert E.B. Lucas (Boston University) 'Re-examining the Perceptions of Migration between Rural and Urban Areas: Evidence from Seventy-Five Developing Countries' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Andreas Steinmayr (University of Munich) 'Immigrating into a Recession' (joint with Toman Barsbai and Christoph Winter) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Matthias Parey (University of Surrey) 'Tasks and Technology: The Labor Market Effects of Innovation' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Eran Yashiv (Tel Aviv University) 'Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Roles of Incomes and Job Tasks' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Piera Bello (UCL) "Gender Price Discrimination in the Annuity Market: Evidence from Chile" 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Tuuli Paukkeri (VATT Institute for Economic Research) "Once or Twice a Month? The Impact of Payment Frequency on Consumption Patterns" (joint with Jani-Petri Laamanen and Tuomas Matikka) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Michael Boehm (University of Bonn) "Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns" (joint with Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants" 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) "Do Skilled Migrants Compete with Native Workers? Analysis of a Selective Immigration Policy" 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Patrick Puhani (Leibniz Universität Hannover) "Fair But Imperfect:
Functional Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process" (joint with Dominique Meurs) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz (Goethe University Frankfurt) 'Does the Right to Work Part-Time Affect Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes and Fertility?' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Tuomas Kosonen (Labour Institute for Economic Research) Home Care or Formal Day Care? The Effect of Home Care Allowance on Child Outcomes (joint with Jonathan Gruber and Kristiina Huttunen) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Simon Goerlach (Bocconi University) Terrorism, education, and the role of perceptions: Evidence from al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya (joint with Marco Alfano) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol) Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China (joint with Marlon Seror, Hao Xu and Yanos Zylberberg) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Alice Kügler (UCL,CReAM) Displacement Effects in Manufacturing: The Role of Firms (joint with Ines Helm and Uta Schoenberg) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Flavio Hafner (Universitat Pompeu Favra) 'Labor supply shocks and the organization and performance of firms' 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Hale Utar (Bielefeld University) Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Patricia Cortes (Boston University) Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Andreas Lichter (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Selma Walther (University of Sussex) Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality (joint with Sonia Bhalotra and Atheen Venkataramani) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Thomas Cornelissen (University of York) Knowledge spillovers from apprenticeship training (joint with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Kirill Borusyak (Princeton) 'Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs' (joint with Peter Hull and Xavier Jaravel) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Alexandra Fedorets (DIW) "Large Wage Shocks, Technological Substitution and Innovation" 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar Elie Murand (IZA - Institute of Labor Economics) 'Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement' (joint with Seyhun Orcan Sakalli) 

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar 2018/2019 Schedule 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Neeraj Kaushal (Columbia University, School of Social Work) Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Gregor Pfeifer (University of Hohenheim) "The Morning After: Prescription-Free Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills" (joint with Mirjam Reutter) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Anne-Lise Breivik (University of Bergen) “Effects of Child Care and Long-Run Health" (joint with Emilia Del Bono and Julie Riise) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Assaf Razin (Cornell University and Tel Aviv University)  “Israel’s Immigration Story: Globalization Lessons“ 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Kathleen Kuerschner (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)  “The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany” (joint with Michael Kvasnicka) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner (CReAM, UCL)  “Do place-based tax incentives create jobs?" (joint with Hyejin Ku and Uta Schönberg) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Christoph Albert (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF))  “The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants: Job Creation vs. Job Competition" 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner (CReAM, UCL)  “The intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency" (joint with Monique De Haan) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Alexandra Hartman (UCL, Political Science Dept)  "Engineering Informal Institutions: Long run impacts of alternative dispute resolution on violence and property rights in Liberia" (joint with Rob Blair and Chris Blattman) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Hyejin Ku (CReAM & UCL) "Why Do Immigrants Work for Less? The Role of Regional Price Differences" (joint with Christian Dustmann and Tanya Surovtseva). 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Ole-Petter Moe Hansen (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)) "Quantifying Determinants of Immigration Preferences" (joint with Stefan Legge) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Lucia Rizzica (Bank of Italy)  The real effects of ’Ndrangheta: firm level evidence (joint with Litterio Mirenda and Sauro Mocetti) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Felix Schran (University of Bonn)  The Evolution of Task Prices in Germany, 1985 - 2010 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Flavio Hafner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 'Firms, borders and local labor demand: Employment and population effects of a market integration' 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminar Chad Sparber (Colgate University) The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Martin Lange (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim, Goethe University Frankfurt) Immigration and Hate Crime. Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Attacks against Asylum Seekers in Germany (joint with Horst Entorf)  

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Julian Vedeler Johnsen (University of Bergen) Retirement, Grandparental Childcare, and Maternal Employment (joint with Ola Vestad) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Berkay Ozcan (London School of Economics) 'Natives’ fertility response to mass migration: Evidence from Syrian Migration to Turkey' 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Adrian Lerche (Pompeu Fabra University- UPF) 'Investment Incentives and the Response of Firms' 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Francesc Ortega (Queens College CUNY) The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis (joint with Ryan Edwards, Mills College)  

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Malte Sandner (CReAM) Household Income and Infant Health: Evidence from a Welfare Benefit Reform“ (joint with Simon Janssen, IAB).   

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Dana Müller (IAB) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz (Goethe University Frankfurt) Cultural Determinants of Household Saving Behavior (with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Paolo Masella) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Kristiina Huttunen (Aalto University) Entry to Upper Secondary School and Crime (joint with Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen) 

CReAM Brown Bag SeminarsPatrick Puhani (Leibniz Universität Hannover; CReAM, University College London; SEW, University of St. Gallen; IZA, Bonn) Does Increased Accountability Decrease Leniency in Performance Ratings? (joint with Philip Yang) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Jake Bradley (University of Cambridge) Labor Market Reforms: An Evaluation of the Hartz Policies in Germany (joint with Alice Kuegler) 

CReAM Brown Bag SeminarsAntonio Dalla Zuanna (NHH)  "Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility" joint with Aline Buetikofer and Kjell Salvanes 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway University of London, CEP, CReAM and IZA) All Gone Belly Up. Immigration and Child Birth in the UK (joint with Dan Anderberg, Augustin DeCoulon)  

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Andreas Beerli (ETH Zurich) What is Driving Skilled International Migration? Evidence from Switzerland (joint with Ronald Indergand and Johannes Kunz) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Michael Amior (Cambridge and CEP)  The labour impact of migration under monopsony 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Joan Monras (Sciences Po) Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz) The Role of Firms in Retirement 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Panu Poutvaara (University of Munich) International Migration of Couples 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Scott Carrell (UC Davis) Late Interventions Matter too: the Case of College Coaching in New Hampshire (with Bruce Sacerdote) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia) Young in Class: Implications for Inattentive/Hyperactive Behavior of Canadian Boys and Girls (Joint with Kelly Chen, Philip Oreopoulos and Shelley Phipps). 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Oliver Himmler (Max Planck Institute) Literacy and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap   

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Stefan Bender (Institute for Employment Research - IAB) German labor market data of the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) - basics, future developments and international access 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut) Cycling to School: Increasing High School Enrollment for Girls in Bihar (with Karthik Muralidharan) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut) Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviours of Adolescents 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Alice Mesnard (City University and IFS) Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song? (with Emmanuelle Auriol) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Lisa Cameron (Monash University) Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of the Evolution of Immigrants’ Preferences (with N. Erkal, L. Gangdharan and M. Zhang) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia) Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement (with P. Oreopoulos and S. Phipps) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Dean Yang (University of Michigan) Remittances and the Problem of Control: a Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto) Who Migrates and Why? 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Shulamit Kahn (Boston University) How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science? 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Patricia Cortes (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) The Feminization of International Migration and its effects on theFamilies Left behind: Evidence from the Philippines. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Kevin Lang, Boston University Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (joint with Deepti Goel) 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Rachel Friedberg (Brown University) Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Karin Mayr (University of Vienna) Optimal Quota for Sector Specific Immigration. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Giovanni Peri ( University of California, Davis) Rethinking the Area Approach: Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Todd Sorensen (University of California, Riverside) The effect of immigration on ethnic composition and occupational reallocation (with Arindrajit Dube and Shruti Kapoor). 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Assaf Razin (Cornell University and Tel Aviv University) Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration (with Alon Cohen). 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University) Children's Resources in Collective Households (with Geoffrey Dunbar and Arthur Lewbel). 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Price Fishback (University of Arizona) In Search of the Multiplier for Net Federal Spending in the States During the New Deal: A Preliminary Report. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Oliver Himmler (University of Göttingen) Tax Fairness Perceptions and Economic Behavior - Evidence from Absenteeism. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars David Card (University of California, Berkeley) Immigration and Inequality. 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Giovanni Facchini (University of Essex) Do interest groups affect US immigration policy? 

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Jennifer Hunt (McGill University) How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?   

CReAM Brown Bag Seminars Sara de la Rica (Universidad del País Vasco) Complements or Substitutes? Immigrant and Native Task Specialization in Spain.