UCL PhD Economic Alumni Conference


09:00-09:30	Registration, Coffee and Croissants
09:30-10:15	Luigi Pistaferri (with Giacomo De Giorgi and A Frederikssen) "Consumption Network Effects"
10:15-11:00	Giacomo De Giorgi *"Consumption Heterogeneity over the Business Cycle"*
11:00-11:30	Networking Coffee Break
11:30-12:15	Marco Manacorda "Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data"
12:15-13:00	Nicholas Bloom (with Scott R. Baker and Steven J. Davis) "“Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment”"
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	Maria Casanova “Wage and Earning Profiles at Older Ages: Implications for the Estimation of the Labor Supply Elasticity”
14:45-15:30	Uta Schoenberg "Referral-Based Job Search Networks"
15:30-16:00	Networking Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Richard Blundell "How Revealing is Revealed Preference?"
17:00-18:30	Conference reception


08:30-09:00	Coffee and Croissants
09:00-09:45	Andrew Shephard (with Richard Blundell) *"Optimal Taxation in an Empirical Life-Cycle Model of Labour Supply"*
09:45:10:30	Manuela Angelucci (with Giacomo de Giorgi and Imran Rasul) *"The effect of stress and uncertainty on productivity and entrepreneurship"*
10:30-11:00	Networking Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	John Van Reenen “Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France”
11:45-12:30	Hamish Low (with Sule Alan and Thomas Crossley) *"Saving for a Rainy Day, Borrowing on a Rainy Day"*
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:15	Mario Padula (with Tullio Jappelli) *"Investment in Financial Literacy and Saving Decisions"*
14:15-15:00	Josep Pijioan Mas (with Manuel Garcia-Santana) *"Small Scale Reservation Laws and the Misallocation of Talent"*

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