PAst seminars

Fall 2024

September 23: Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University)
"On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes"
(with Bruno Conte and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)

October 7: Yajna Govind (Copenhagen Business School)
"Migration policy backlash, identity and integration 

of second-generation migrants in France"

October 14: Sandra Sequeira (LSE)
'"Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion"

October 21: Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (University of Exeter)
"Minority Political Representation and Immigrant Integration"

November 18: Simone Bertoli (CERDI)
"Migration and the epidemiological approach: 

time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter"

(with Melchior Clerc, Jordan Loper and Èric Roca Fernández)

December 2: Daniel Rubenson (Toronto Metropolitan University)
"A Two Path Theory of Context Effects: 

Pseudo-environments and Social Cohesion"

December 12-13: 14th Annual International Conference 

"Immigration in OECD countries" 

organized by OECD-CEPII-LISER-PSE

Program available here

Spring 2024

January 25: ICM (Institut Convergences Migration) - PSE Workshop

Keynote speaker: Toman Barsbai (University of Bristol)

Collège de France - site Ulm

February 12: Martina Viarengo (Geneva Graduate Institute)

"Labour Market Integration, Local Conditions and Inequalities: 

Evidence from Refugees in Switzerland" 

(with Tobias Muller and Pia Pannatier)

February 26: Philipp Ager (Mannheim University)

"Gender-biased Technological Change: 

Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming" 

March 4: Giulia Briselli (ESCP)

"One Bed, Two Dreams: 

Female Migration, Conservative Norms and Foreign Brides in South Korea" 

March 18: Tommaso d’Amelio (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

"Inheritence and Migration: Evidence from 19th Century Italy" 

April 15: Riccardo Turati (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona )

"Immigration and Cultural Heterogeneity: Evidence from Two Decades in Europe" 

May 6: Mathilde Emeriau (SciencesPo Paris)

"In or Out? Xenophobic Violence and Immigration Integration. Evidence from 19th Century France" 

May 13: Ilse Ruyssen (Ghent University)

"Irrigation as Mitigator for Migratory Aspirations following Drought" 

Fall 2023

September 18: Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions"
(with Andrea Matranga and Marta Troya-Martinez)

October 9: Alexander Yarkin (Brown University & LISER)

"Learning from the Origins"

November 6: Clement Imbert (University of Warwick & SciencesPo)

"Deforestation and Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa" 

(with Kenneth Houngbedji, Samuel Marshall, Julien Wolfersberger, and Liam Wren-Lewis) 

November 20: Cevat Giray Aksoy (EBRD, King's College London)

"Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants"

December 4: Pauline Rossi (Ecole Polytechnique - CREST)

"Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: 

Evidence from Colonial West Africa" 

(with Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan and Marie Christelle Mabeu)

December 11-12: 13th Annual Conference on "Immigration in OECD Countries"

with CEPII, LISER, the OECD, Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti, 

University of Lille (LEM) and University of Luxembourg

Spring 2023

June 12: Yves Zenou (Monash University)
"Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model"
(with Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, and Jackline Wahba)

May 15: Christina Felfe (U Würzburg)
"On the Formation of Ingroup Bias: The Role of Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Distance"

April 17: Joint workshop with IC Migrations 

Venue: Collège de France (https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2023/03/30/seminaire-pmes-organise-par-pse-et-icm-dynamics-17-avril-2023-college-de-france-site-ulm-paris/)

April 3: Tommaso Frattini (U Milano)
"From Refugees to Citizens: Returns to Naturalization and Labour Market Outcomes"
(with Francesco Fasani and Maxime Pirot)

March 20: Sylvie Démurger (IAO Lyon/CNRS)
"Migration and financial inclusion: Evidence from rural Chinese households"
(with Anna Jolivet)

March 13: Osea Giuntella (U Pittsburgh)
"Ethnic Churches, Enclave Neighborhoods and Immigrant Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration"
(with Ran Abramitsky and Leah Boustan)

February 13: Sara Signorelli (U Amsterdam)
"Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms"
(with D. Bahar, P. Choudhury, J. Sappenfield)

January 30: Mariapia Mendola (U Milano Bicocca)
"The Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers"
(with Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, and Giulia Tura)

Fall 2022

December 5: David de la Croix (UC Louvain)

"Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities"

(with Pauline Morault)

November 21: Joint seminar with IC Migrations

Andrea Cinque (CES)

Jérôme Gonnot (CEPII)

Francesco Lissoni (Université de Bordeaux)

Guglielmo Zappalà (PSE)

October 17: Jan Stuhler (U. Carlos III de Madrid)

"Immigration and Monopsony: Evidence Across the Distribution of Firms"

Spring 2022

June 22: Clément Imbert (University of Warwick)
"Floating population: consumption and location choices of rural migrants in China"
(with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror, and Yanos Zylberberg)

June 14: Patricia Cortés (Boston University)
"Globalization of Home Production and the Outcomes of Highly Skilled Native Women"

June 8: Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego - School of Global Policy & Strategy)
"Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration"
(with Lisa Cameron, Simone Schaner, and Firman Witoelar)

and Martín Fernández Sánchez (LISER)
"Close Neighbors, Skills, and Immigrants’ Performance"
(with Frédéric Docquier and Fabio Mariani)

May 21: Miguel Sánchez Romero (Vienna Institute of Demography)
"Redistributive effects of pension reforms: Who are the winners and losers?"

and Montserrat Botey (Sciences Po)
"Not Taxing Imputed Rent: a gift to Scrooge? Evidence from France"
(with Guillaume Chapelle)

March 30: Christian Dustmann (UCL)
"Labor Market Effects of Immigration – Identification and Interpretation"
(with Sebastian Otten, Uta Schönberg, and Jan Stuhler)

February 9: Olivier Bargain (Université de Bordeaux)
"Another Brick in the Wall. Immigration and Electoral Preferences: Direct Evidence from State Ballots?"

and Camilo Umana Dajud (CEPII)
"Free Trade Agreements and the Movement of Business People"