7th Warwick Economics PhD Conference 2019 3rd – 4th June; Social Sciences Building, CV4 7AL

Programme DAY 1 - Monday, 3rd June 09:00-09:30 Registration and Welcome – Room S2.79 09:30-10:15 Keynote Speech – Prof. Debraj Ray – Room S2.79 10:15-10:30 Tea/Coffee break

10:30-12:00 Session 1 – Applied Economics – Room S2.79 Abhilasha Sahay (George Washington University) – The Silenced Women: An Investigation on Reporting of Violence Against Women

Discussant: Maddalena Ronchi Maddalena Ronchi (Queen Mary University of London) – Managers' gender attitudes and the gender gap

Discussant: Abhilasha Sahay

12:00-13:30 Lunch – Xananas

13:30-15:00 Session 2 – Industrial Organization – Room S2.79 Michael Rubens (KU Leuven) – Ownership consolidation and monopsony power: evidence from Chinese tobacco

Discussant: Claudia Allende SC Claudia Allende SC (Columbia University) - Supply side responses to parents’ preferences for peers

Discussant: Michael Rubens 15:00-15:15 Coffee Break – Room S2.132

15:15-16:45 Session 3 – Economic Theory and Econometrics– Room S2.79 Alejandro Sanchez Becerra (University of Pennsylvania) - Network Peer Effects under Selection

Discussant: Maggie Fok (University of Warwick) Hansel Teo (Toulouse School of Economics) - Imperfect competition and participation in insurance markets

Discussant: Erika Pini 16:45-17:00 – Tea/Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Session 4 – Political and Public Economics – Room S2.79 Wookun Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) - The Impact of Local Governments on Workers’ Location Choices, Regional Inequality, and Welfare

Discussant: Allan Hsiao Allan Hsiao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Misallocation and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Healthcare in Indonesia

Discussant: Wookun Kim

19:00 Conference Dinner – Arden, Kirby Corner Road, Coventry CV4 8AH

Day 2 – Tuesday, 4th June 09:45-10:00 – Tea/Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Session 5 – Behavioural and Experimental Economics – Room S2.79 Alexia Delfino (London School of Economics) - Tastes, expectations and gendered jobs: a field experiment with men in pink-collar

Discussant: Shohei Yamamoto Shohei Yamamoto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - The Endowment Effect in the Future: How Time Shapes Buying and Selling Prices

Discussant: Alexia Delfino

11:30 – 13:00 – Poster Session – Room S2.127 and S2.132 Rossi Abi Rafeh(Toulouse School of Economics) - The Price is Right! Cameron LaPoint (Columbia University) - You Only Lend Twice: Corporate Borrowing and Land Values in Real Estate Bubbles Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University of London) - Exposure to crime and pupils' outcomes: evidence from London Pol Campos-Mercade (Lundt University) - Incentivized goals and academic performance: a field experiment Mengbing Ren (Warwick Business School) - The Impact of Derivative Disclosures on Managerial Opportunism: Evidence from FASB Statement No.161 Louise Guillouet (Columbia University) - Are increases in quality differentiation always good for consumer welfare? An application to the rise of organic food in the US Dita Eckardt (London School of Economics) - Are Chemists Good Bankers? Returns to the Match Between Training and Occupation Erika Pini (Universite Catholique de Louvain) - Economic inequality, political polarization and voter turnout 13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch – Xananas

14:30-16:00 Session 6 – Development and Economic Growth– Room S2.79 Jonathan Lehne (Paris School of Economics) - An opium curse? The long-run economic consequences of narcotics cultivation in British India

Discussant: Marijn Bolhuis Marijn Bolhuis (University of Toronto) - Catch-Up Growth and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers

Discussant: Jonathan Lehne

16:00-16:30 – Tea/Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 - Internal Session Presentation by Winners of Departmental Applied Research Grant Awards

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