2021

Jan 26, 2021 - Education and Public Policy

10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): AEW Working Paper Discussion:
1. "When Student Incentives Don’t Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi" by James Berry (University of Delaware), Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (HKUST), and Hyuk Harry Son (Cornell University).
2. "STEM Women in the Shadow? University Opening and Informal Employment" by Jay C. Charoenporn (GRIPS, Bank of Thailand) and Stacey H. Chen (UTokyo Public Policy).

4:00 pm Tokyo Time (3:00 pm for others): AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Endogenous Riot Networks" by Chih-Sheng Hsieh (Nat Taiwan)
4:30 pm Tokyo Time (3:30 pm for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood" by Vincent Boucher (Laval University), Semih Tumen (TED University, IZA, and ERF), Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton and IZA), Jackline Wahba (University of Southampton and IZA), and Yves Zenou (Monash University, CEPR, and IZA.)

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Selection and Treatment Effects of Health Insurance Subsidies in the Long Run: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana" by Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (HKUST/Cornell) with Patrick Opoku Asuming (UGhana) and Armand Sim (Cornell)
10:00 am Tokyo Time (9:00 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: What Does It Do and What Does that Mean?" Amy Finkelstein (MIT) with Neale Mahoney (UChicago) and Matthew J. Notowidigdo (Northwestern U)

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "High School Majors, Comparative (Dis)Advantage, and Future Earnings" by Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, and Anders Stenberg.
10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Households’ Responses to Childcare Fees: Childcare Usage and Parental Labor Supply" by Taiyo Fukai and Ayako Kondo.

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: “Getting the Price Right? The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program” by Hui Ding, Mark Duggan, and Amanda Starc.
10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: “Physicians Treating Physicians: The Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival” by Stacey H. Chen (UTokyo Public Policy), Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang, and Tzu-Hsin Lin.

9:00 am Tokyo Time (8:00 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Does Decoupling Hurt Entrepreneurial Financing? The Chinese Venture Capital Market in the U.S.-China Trade War" by Joy Chen, Robin Kaiji Gong, and Jinlin Li.
9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe " by Jessica Bai, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner.

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "The Augmented Synthetic Control Method" & "Synthetic Controls with Staggered Adoption" by Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, and Jesse Rothstein. (Slides)
11:00 am Tokyo Time (10:00 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Desegregating Schools: Evidence from Middle School Closing Down in Deprived Neighborhoods" by Nina Guyon (NUS).

Meeting Record (Password: jB3ne8s2)

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "Social Protection in Developing Countries: Lessons from Indonesia." (Slides)
10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Service Delivery, Corruption, and Information Flows in Bureaucracies: Evidence from the Bangladesh Civil Service" by Martin Mattsson.

Meeting Recording (Password:fG8BhHG6)

Keynote Speaker: Brian Jacob (University of Michigan), Chief Moderator: Ryuichi Tanaka (UTokyo)

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "College Admission Reform Favors Women, but Much Less in Male-Dominated Disciplines: Evidence from Taiwan" by Shiang-Hung Hu and Joseph Tao-yi Wang.
10:00 am Tokyo Time (9:00 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "The Demand for and Effects of Career and Technical Education" by Brian Jacob. (Slides)

9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs during the Shale Boom and Bust" by Kevin Milligan and Joseph Marchand. (Slides)
10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants" by Marit Hinnosaar and Elaine Liu.