Date/Time
Date(s) - Fri 1 December
All Day
Location
RH105, Level 1, Rutherford House, VUW
PROGRAMME
8.45am to 9.00am Welcome and Coffee RH104
Morning Session 9.00am to 12.30pm
9.00am to 9.30am Johannes S Kunz, Monash University
High-Skilled Immigration and Skill-Biased Demand Evidence from Swiss local labor markets 1990-2010
RH105
9.30am to 10.00am Sabina Albrecht, University of Amsterdam
When refugees work: The social capital effects of resettlement on host communities
RH105
10.00am to 10.30am Peter Siminski, University of Technology Sydney
Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia
RH105
10.30am to 11.00am Morning Break and Refreshments RH104
11.00am to 11.30am Alfredo Paloyo, University of Wollongong
The Intergenerational Persistence of Obesity
RH105
11.30am to 12.00pm Trenton Smith, University of Otago
Is Fast Food Addictive? Evidence from an Experiment Utilizing Continuous Glucose Monitoring
RH105
12.00pm to 12.30pm Michelle Poland, University of Otago
‘Monday Effect’ in Workers’ Compensation Claims Research
RH105
12.30pm to 2.00pm Lunch RH104
Afternoon Session 2.00pm to 5.30pm
2.00pm to 3.00pm Keynote Speaker: Steven Stillman, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Evidence on the big Premium from a decade of linked Employer-Employee data
RH105
3.00pm to 3.30pm Afternoon Break and Refreshments RH104
3.30pm to 4.00pm Kevin E. Staub, The University of Melbourne
Perfect prediction and bias in fixed effects binary response panel models, with an application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
RH105
4.00pm to 4.30pm Kabir Dasgupta, Auckland University of Technology
Evaluating the Impact of Mothers’ Self-Esteem on Early Childhood Home Environment
RH105
4.30pm to 5.00pm Rigissa Megalokonomou, The University of Queensland
Persistency in Teachers’ Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study
RH105
5.00pm to 5.30pm Jan Kabátek, The University of Melbourne
Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce
There is no registration fee to attend the Econometrics Workshop Programme, but for catering purposes, could you please RSVP no later than Friday 24 November 2017, to Ingrid Watts (Ingrid.Watts[at]vuw.ac.nz). Please advise if you have any specific dietary needs (e.g. Gluten Free, Vegetarian, etc).