30. June - 02. July 2021

Virtual EBE/GRK Summer Meeting 2021

Bavarian Young Economists' Meeting

Topics in Applied Microeconomics

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Topic

In recent years, the availability of previously untapped microeconomic data sources has spurred the development of a variety of new methods and research agendas. Bavarian Young Economists’ Meeting is a virtual conference that focuses on novel empirical methods and theoretical contributions to uncover causal mechanisms. We invite current Ph.D. students who are interested in the related topics. We explicitly encourage to submit research that combines theoretical modeling with an empirical application.

Michela Carlana from Harvard Kennedy School and Noam Yuchtman from London School of Economics and Political Science will be keynote speakers who will present their ongoing research and be available throughout the event for discussions with participants. In addition, invited participants will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their work.

The conference organizing committee consists of researchers active across an extensive set of fields; micro theory, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, political economy, trade, labor, health, development, and macroeconomics are some of the fields that will be featured at the conference.

The Bavarian Young Economists’ Meeting is a joint initiative of the Evidence-Based Economics (EBE), the Microeconomic Determinants of Labor Productivity Research Group (GRK 1928) Program, the Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, and University of Regensburg. More information about speakers and the schedule of the conference will be posted in the coming months. We look forward to your contributions!

Keynote Speakers

Michela Carlana
(Harvard Kennedy School)

Michela Carlana is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is affiliated with the Women in Public Policy Program, Harvard's Program in Inequality and Social Policy Group. Carlana is a faculty affiliate at LEAP-Bocconi University and a research affiliate at IZA-Institute of Labor Economics.

Her research agenda focuses on two main themes. First, she has studied the impact of exposure to gender stereotypes on performance in mathematics, self-confidence, and track choice of adolescents. Her recent work finds that teachers' implicit stereotypes can form an unintended and often invisible barrier to equal opportunity. She is currently working on concrete policies that can be implemented in order to alleviate the negative effects of gender stereotypes on female students. Second, she has worked on topics related to immigration. Her work in this area has ranged from field experiments aimed at reducing inequality in educational achievement of immigrants to quasi-experimental designs to analyze the effect of exposure to immigration on marriage and fertility of natives.

Carlana received her PhD from Bocconi University in June 2018 and she was a PODER-Research Fellow at IIES-Stockholm University in 2016-17.

Noam Yuchtman
(London School of Economics and Political Science)

Noam Yuchtman joined the LSE as Professor in 2019, having been awarded a British Academy Global Professorship. In addition to his position at LSE, Yuchtman is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Economic Studies, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, and the Journal of Economic History.

Yuchtman's research is focused on four topics in the fields of political economy, economic history, and labor economics. First, the importance of educational content and the structure of educational institutions in the production of human capital. Second, the political economy of legal institutions: particularly how they affect labor market outcomes and development, and how they are affected by political institutions in which they are embedded. Third, the study of social interactions that shape economic and political behavior. Finally, the drivers of political ideology and participation in political movements. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, among others.

Call for Papers / Submission

We invite contributions to the Virtual Bavarian Young Economists’ Meeting (BYEM) to be held from June 30 to 2nd July, 2021. The BYEM is designed for current PhD students and invites contributions in the field of applied microeconomics (theorical and empirical research). We encourage young researchers to submit completed drafts as well as extended abstracts (3–4 pages).

Deadline for submissions is Sunday the 31st of March, 2021!

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Further details can be found in the PDF version of the call for papers.

Timeline

Application: 31st of March, 2021
Notification: End of April, 2021
Conference: 30th of June - 2nd of July, 2021

Online Conferece

The conference takes place virtually. We will provide you more information on the conference schedule, program and the use of a conference platform later.
There is no conference fee.