Room: Aula "Alberti 1" - Via Q. Sella, 13

Thursday, August 27

09:30 to 10:30 - Session 1:

Mark Stabile (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes”

 

10:30 to 11:30 - Session 2:

Laura Turner (University of Toronto, UBC, and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply” (with Giovanni Gallipoli)

 

11:30 to 12:00 - Coffee Break

 

12:00-1:00 - Session 3:

Dwayne Benjamin (University of Toronto and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Public Policy and the Economic Wellbeing of Elderly Immigrants” (with Michael Baker and Elliott Fan)

 

1:00 to 3:00 - Lunch

 

3:00-4:00 - Session 4:

Vincenzo Caponi (Ryerson University and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Migration Policies, Investment in Education, and Human Capital Flows: a General Equilibrium Approach” (with Claustre Bajona)

 

4:00-4:30 - Coffee Break

 

4:30-5:30 -Session 5:
Keynote Address
Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia)
“Cognitive Skills: Determinats and Labour Market Outcomes”

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Friday, August 28

9:30 to 10:30 - Session 6:
Chiara Binelli (Oxford University, Nuffield College, Institute of Fiscal studies and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Education and Wages in Brazil” (with Costas Meghir and Naercio Menezes-Filho)

10:30 to 11:30 - Session 7:
Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)
“Understanding Educational Attainment by Parental Income: Theory and a Canada - US Comparison"  (with Philippe Belley and Marc Frenette)

 

11:30 to 12:00 - Coffee Break

12:00-1:00 - Session 8:
Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario)
“Occupational Mobility, Occupation Distance and the Evolution of Basic Skills”

 

1:00 to 3:00 - Lunch