October 18-20, 2018
Families and the Macroeconomy
October 17
2018 – Wednesday
19:00 informal
pre-conference dinner and beer (Palms, P 6, 25 in 68161 Mannheim)
October 18
2018 – THURSDAY
Session 1: Fertility
9:00 – 10:40 DAVID DE LA CROIX (Université
catholique de Louvain) - “Childbearing Postponement,
its Option Value, and the Biological Clock” (with Aude Pommeret)
Alessandra Voena (University of
Chicago) - “Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children”
(with Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Roberta Ziparo)
10:40 - 10:55
Coffee
break
Session 2: Intra-Household
Allocations in Developing Countries
10:55-12:35 Carolina
Castilla (Colgate University) - “Spousal Communication and
Intra-Household Allocation in Kenya” (with Yuta J. Masuda and Wei Zhang)
Jacob Penglase (Boston College) - “Resource Sharing, Undernutrition,
and Poverty, Evidence from Bangladesh” (with Caitlin Brown and Rossella Calvi)
12:35 - 14:30
Lunch
and Poster Session I
JOHANNES-JULIAN SCHÜNEMANN (University of Goettingen) - “The Marriage Gap: Optimal Aging and Death in
Partnerships” (with Holger Strulik and Timo Trimborn)
Sena Coskun (University
of Mannheim) - “Fertility Response to Business Cycles. Gender Asymmetry in
Industries” (with Husnu Dalgic)
Fabio Blasutto (Université catholique de Louvain)
- “Marriage versus Cohabitation: Mating strategies by Education in the United
States”
Minchul Yum
(University of Mannheim) - “Status Externalities and Low Birth Rates in Korea”
(with Seongeun Kim and Michèle
Tertilt)
Tim Obermeier (University
of Mannheim) - “Intra-Household Inequality and the Optimal Progressivity of the
Income Tax”
Ester Faia (Goethe
University Frankfurt) - “Educational Inequality, Women Empowerment and
Assortative Matching”
Session 3: Dynamic Decisions in the Household
14:30
– 16:10 Hanno Foerster (University of Mannheim) - “The Impact of
Post-Marital Maintenance on Dynamic Choices and Welfare of Couples”
Zoe Kuehn (Autonomous University of Madrid) - “Till mess do us
part: Married women’s market hours, home production, and divorce” (with Eva
García-Morán)
16:10 -
16:25 Coffee break
16:25 – 17:15 Helene
Turon (University of Bristol) - “Home Production of
Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model”
17:15
- 19:00 Break
19:00 Dinner
October 19 2018 – FRIDAY
Session 1: Intergenerational
Mobility I
9:00
- 10:40 JOHN KNOWLES (Simon Fraser
University) - “Social Mobility with Unobserved Heritable Characteristics” (with
Chris Bidner)
Diego Daruich (New York University) - “The Macroeconomic
Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies”
10:40-10:55 Coffee
break
Session 2: Family Finances
10:55 -
12:35 Geng
Li (Federal Reserve Board) - “Credit Scores and Committed Relationships”
(with Jane Dokko and Jessica Hayes)
Michaela Pagel (Columbia Business
School) - “Family Finances: Intra-Household Bargaining, Spending, and Financial
Structure” (with Arna Olafsson)
12:35-14:30 Lunch
and Poster Session II
Paula Gobbi (Université
Libre de Bruxelles: ECARES)
- “Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance
and the Extensive Margin of Fertility” (with Marc Goñi)
Zainab Iftikhar (Université catholique de Louvain) - “The effect of norms on fertility
and its implications for the quantity-quality trade-off in Pakistan”
Eleonora Guarnieri (ifo-Institute) - “Female
Empowerment and Male Backlash” (with Helmut Rainer)
Anne Hannusch (University of Mannheim) - “Taxing Families: The
Impact of Child-related Transfers on Maternal Labor Supply”
Katerina Piro (University of Mannheim) - “War Experience, Family
Planning and Fertility in Germany during World War II”
Galina Zudenkova (University of Mannheim) - “Paid Parental Leave and
Paternity Acknowledgement” (with Anna Raute and Andrea
Weber)
Session 3: Women in the Labor Force
14:30 – 16:10 Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh) - “Changing Business
Cycles: Roles of Women’s Employment”
Bulent Guler (Indiana
University) - “Dual Income Couples and Interstate Migration” (with Ahmet Ali Taskin)
16:10 -
16:25 Coffee break
16:25 – 17:15 German Cubas (University
of Houston) - “Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap” (with Pedro
Silos and Chinhui Juhn)
17:15 - 19:00 Break
19:00 Dinner
October 20 2018 – SATURDAY
Session 1: Intergenerational
Mobility II
9:00
- 10:40 Christopher M. Herrington (Virginia Commonwealth University)
- “Family Structure, Human Capital Investment and Aggregate College Attainment”
(with Adam Blandin)
Julian Kozlowski (New York
University) - “Explaining Intergenerational Mobility: The Role of
Fertility and Family Transfers” (with Diego Daruich)
10:40-10:55 Coffee break
Session 2: Marital
Sorting
10:55-12:35 Junyi
Zhu (Deutsche Bundesbank) - “Love and money with inheritance: marital
sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the
modern partnership” (with Etienne Pasteau)
Jesper Bagger (Royal Holloway, University of London) - “Marriage
Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability” (with Dan Anderberg,
V. Bhaskar and Tanya Wilson)
12:35 Lunch