COMPIE 2014 Program Rome, 27-28 November, 2014 COunterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation Thursday, November 27, 2014 8.30 - 9 Archivio Centrale dello Stato, P.le Archivi 27, Rome EUR Registration Entrance hall 9 - 10.45 Plenary Session I 9 – 9.15 Welcome by a representative of the Italian Government 9.15 – 9.45 Introductory notes by Santiago Loranca-Garcia (EC DG EMPL) Andrea Saltelli (EC DG JRC) 9.45 – 10.45 Jochen Kluve (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) “Lessons from Randomized Control Trials and other Evaluations of ALMPs” Lecture room A 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break Ground Floor (G) 11.15 – 13 Parallel Sessions S01 and S02 Lecture room A and B 13 - 14.30 Lunch and Poster Session 1 Ground Floor (G) 14.30 - 16.15 Parallel Sessions S03 and S04 Lecture room A and B 16.15 - 16.45 Coffee Break Ground Floor (G) 16.45 - 18.30 Parallel Sessions S05 and S06 Lecture room A and B Friday, November 28, 2014 Archivio Centrale dello Stato, P.le Archivi 27, Rome EUR 9 - 10.45 Plenary Session II 9 – 9.45 Vladimír Šucha (EC DG JRC Director-General) “Science for policy: the case of counterfactuals” Georg Fischer (EC DG EMPL.A Director) Lecture room A “Counterfactual impact evaluation is crucial for employment programmes” 9.45 – 10.45 Stephen Pischke (London School of Economics) “Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right” 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break Ground Floor (G) 11.15 – 13 Parallel Sessions S07 and S08 Lecture rooms A and B 13 - 14.30 Lunch and Poster Session 2 Ground Floor (G) 14.30 - 16.15 Parallel Sessions S09 and S10 Lecture rooms A and B 16.15 - 16.45 Coffee Break Ground Floor (G) 16.45 - 18.00 Parallel Sessions S11 and S12 Lecture rooms A and B session COMPIE 2014 code roomsession name Keynote speeches day time Title PL1 A PL2 A Plenary session 1 27 h. 9.45 Lessons from Randomized Control Trials and other Evaluations of ALMPs Jochen Kluve Plenary session 2 28 h. 9.45 Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right Stephen Pischke code session Employment and social inclusion policies S01 S01 S01 S01 A A A A day time Title day 27 Nov Organized session 27 h. 11.15 Post-secondary vocational training course: are they effective for Italian unemployed Severati youthPaolo with aethigh al schoolISFOL diploma? Organized session 27 h. 11.15 Counterfactual Evaluations and their relevance for the policy dialogue Roberta Gatti WB Organized session 27 h. 11.15 Reemployment effects from increased activation: Evidence from times of... Pedro Martins Queen Mary, University of London Organized session 27 h. 11.15 A review of counterfactual impact evaluations of ALMPs: a knowledge gap reportSantangelo et al CRIE Contributed sessions code S02 S02 S02 S02 S03 S03 S03 S03 S04 S04 S04 S04 S05 S05 S05 S05 S06 S06 S06 S06 S07 S07 S07 S07 S08 session name B B B B A A A A B B B B A A A A B B B B A A A A B day time Title Immigration policies 27 h. 11.15 Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics. The role of immigration in shaping nat... Paolo Naticchioni University of Roma Tre Immigration policies 27 h. 11.15 Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Cri... Paolo Pinotti Università Bocconi Immigration policies 27 h. 11.15 Does access to free health insurance crowd-out remittances? Evidence f... Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano University of Sussex Immigration policies 27 h. 11.15 Directing remittances to education through soft and hard commitments: ... Giuseppe De Arcangelis Sapienza Majlinda University Joxhe University of Rome of (s) Rome "Tor Vergata" Active Labor Market policies 1 27 h. 14.30 Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation Jonas Maibom Aarhus University Active Labor Market policies 1 27 h. 14.30 Evaluating a Danish welfare-to-work experiment: Long-term outcomes Sofie Brodersen Aarhus University Active Labor Market policies 1 27 h. 14.30 Competing Policies? The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information and... Ricarda Schmidl Active Labor Market policies 1 27 h. 14.30 Why do tougher caseworkers increase employment? The role of programme ... Mellace Gender issues 27 h. 14.30 Social Norms and Mothers’ Labor Market AttachmenThe Medium-run Effec... Jochen Kluve Humboldt-Universität SebastianzuSchmitz Berlin Freie Universität Berlin (s) Gender issues 27 h. 14.30 Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Maternal Employment, Fertil... Malte Sandner Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research Gender issues 27 h. 14.30 The evolution of the gender wage gap: 1968-2008 Blaise Melly Univerity of Bern Giulia (s) Santangelo European Commission - Joint R Gender issues 27 h. 14.30 Do partial disability pensions close the earnings gap? Begoña Cueto University ofMiguel OviedoMalo (s) University of Salamanca Active Labor Market policies 2 27 h. 16.45 The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sa... Gerard van den Berg University Barbara of Mannheim Hofmann University of Mannheim (s) Active Labor Market policies 2 27 h. 16.45 Effects of Reducing the Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rate during... Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz Universidad Pablo de Olavide Active Labor Market policies 2 27 h. 16.45 Stricter job search requirements for bene fit eligibility and claimant... Andrea Morescalchi European Paolo Commission Paruolo European - DG JRCCommission, (s) DG JRC IPS Active Labor Market policies 2 27 h. 16.45 The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assis... Marco Caliendo University Steffen of Potsdam Kuenn IZA Social policies 27 h. 16.45 Does employment protection affect well-being? A quasi experiment Vanessa Dräger IZA Social policies 27 h. 16.45 Equalization of opportunity: Definitions, implementable conditions and... Francesco Andreoli THEMA,Tarjei Université Havnes deUniversity Cergy-Pontoise of Oslo(s) Social policies 27 h. 16.45 Nudges at the Dentist Christian Traxler Hertie School of Governance Social policies 27 h. 16.45 Warping Space: High-Speed Rail and Returns to Scale in Local Labor Mar... Daniel Heuermann University Johannes of Regensburg Schmieder (s) Boston University day 27: end Active Labor Market policies 3 28 h. 11.15 The Labour Market Lessons from Youth Guarantee - Evidence from a Finni... Ulla Hämäläinen Social Insurance Kari Hämäläinen InstitutionGovernment Finland (s) day Institute 28 Nov for Econo Active Labor Market policies 3 28 h. 11.15 The effect of a mixed passive and active labour market policy: Evidenc... Enrico Rettore Università degli Studi di Padova Active Labor Market policies 3 28 h. 11.15 Evaluating the Effects of Lengths of Participation in the Workforce In... Wallice Ao University of Wisconsin-Madison Ying-Ying Lee University of Oxford (s) Active Labor Market policies 3 28 h. 11.15 Workplace Training Programs: Instruments for Human Capital Improvement... Irene Brunetti Counterfactual methods 28 h. 11.15 Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (an... Marco Caliendo University Robert of Potsdam Mahlstedt (s) IZA Bonn Michael Lechner University of St Gallen S08 S08 S08 S09 S09 S09 S09 S10 S10 S10 S10 S11 S11 S11 S12 S12 S12 B B B A A A A B B B B A A A B B B Counterfactual methods 28 h. 11.15 Symmetric Difference in Difference Dominates Matching in a Realistic S... Sylvain Chabe-Ferret Toulouse School of Economics Counterfactual methods 28 h. 11.15 Randomization in Dynamic Settings: Estimating Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Trea... Stephen Kastoryano University Bas van of Mannheim der Klaauw(s)VU Counterfactual methods 28 h. 11.15 Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects in the Presence of ... Giovanni Cerulli CNR Education policies 1 28 h. 14.30 In a Small Moment:Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno Joshua Angrist Massachusetts Erich Institute Battistin ofQueen Technology Mary University of London Education policies 1 28 h. 14.30 Trying to raise (low) math achievement and to promote (rigorous) polic... Giovanni Abbiati Education policies 1 28 h. 14.30 New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in German... Tobias Meyer NIW Hannover Stephan (s) Thomsen NIW Hannover Education policies 1 28 h. 14.30 Adverse effects of increased education efficiency? The impact of short... Mathias Huebener DIW Berlin, Jan Marcus GermanDIW Institute Berlinfor Economic Research (s) Credit and taxation policies 28 h. 14.30 Public Guarantees to SME Borrowing. An RDD Evaluation Alessio D'Ignazio Bank of Italy Credit and taxation policies 28 h. 14.30 Internal Migration and Financing Availability: Evidence from Thailand Cecilia Poggi University of Sussex Credit and taxation policies 28 h. 14.30 Employment Tax Credits and Job Creation Trends in SMEs: Evidence from ... Finance Department (Ministry of Economy and Finance) and Sose – Soluzion Credit and taxation policies 28 h. 14.30 Income Taxation, Transfers and Labour Supply at the Extensive Margin Peter Benczur EC JRC Ispra Gábor (s) Kátay Banque de France Education policies 2 28 h. 16.45 Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants: A U.S. - Canad... Xingfei Liu IZA Bon Germany Education policies 2 28 h. 16.45 Selecting University Professors in Italy: much ‘ado’ about nothin... Daniele Checchi University Stefano of MilanVerzillo (s) University of Milan Education policies 2 28 h. 16.45 The Mirage of Elite Schools: Evidence from Lottery-based School Admiss... Hongliang Zhang The Chinese University of Hong Kong Competitiveness policies 28 h. 16.45 Beyond the SUTVA: how policy evaluations change when we allow for inte... Augusto Cerqua Department Guido of Social Pellegrini and Economic Department Sciences of Economic (s) and So Competitiveness policies 28 h. 16.45 The Employment Effect of Innovation d'Artis Kancs European Commission Competitiveness policies 28 h. 16.45 Is it profitable to be green? Preliminary results of an econometric ev... Cesare Riillo STATEC day 28: end Poster sessions code PS1 PS1 PS1 PS1 PS1 PS1 PS1 PS1 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 session name G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G Title Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Shall I Follow my Brother? Peer Effects in Living Arrangements Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll Collegio Veruska CarloOppedisano Alberto (s) Economicday Department 27 Nov Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Impact Evaluation of Cereal Banking on Food and Livelihood Security of... Raymond Jatta University of Cheikh Anta Diop Poster session 1 27 h. 13 The Impact of the ‘Free Choice’ Work/Family Reforms of France and ... Federico Podestà Bruno Kessler Foundation Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Synthesizing Cash for Clunkers - Effects on the New Car Market Gregor Pfeifer Saarland University Stefan Klossner (s) Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Counterfactual impact evaluation of EU funded enterprise support in Po... Ricardo Mamede ISCTE- IUL and Dinâmia'CET Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Effectiveness of Sequences of Classroom Trainings: What works best in ... Katharina Dengler Institute for Employment Research Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Use of Genetic and Coarsened Exact matching to evaluate the effect of ... Grazia Graziosi University of Trieste Poster session 1 27 h. 13 Regions in: Post-secondary vocational training course: are they effective for ItalianSeverati unemployed Paolo et youth al with aISFOL high school diploma? day 27 Nov Poster session 2 28 h. 13 Assessing the Lisbon Strategy. A Macro difference-in-difference approa... Sergio Destefanis University of Salerno day 28 Nov Poster session 2 28 h. 13 The Minimum Guaranteed Income in the Province of Trento: Evidence from... Loris Vergolini Bruno Kessler Foundation Poster session 2 28 h. 13 High-Speed Internet and Firm Productivity – Quasi-Experimental Evid... Simone Schüller IRVAPP-FBK Giulia (s) Canzian IRVAPP Poster session 2 28 h. 13 The relationship between panel and synthetic control estimators of the... Vincenzo Bove University ofLeandro Essex Elia European Commission (s) Poster session 2 28 h. 13 The impacts of training-intensive labour market policies on NEETs’ l... Jordi Sanz Catalan Instute of Public Policy Evaluation - Ivalua Poster session 2 28 h. 13 Students well being and family involment in schools . Challenges in de... Gianluca Argentin University of Milan Bicocca Poster session 2 28 h. 13 The impact of political regimes on gender differences in work preferen... Miriam Beblo University of Luise Hamburg Goerges Universitaet Hamburg (s) Poster session 2 28 h. 13 Educational mismatch: Is overeducation persistent or temporary? Stefano Lombardi DG Joint Elena Research Meroni Centre DG (s) Joint Research dayCentre 28 Nov