The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg are pleased to announce a workshop on field experiments in policy evaluation. Randomized experiments are the golden standard of causal analysis and have become an important tool in policy evaluations. However, conducting field experiments poses several methodical challenges like external validity, spillover effects, or dynamic selection. The two-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers focusing on policy evaluations using a field experimental design. Studies addressing one of the following fields are particularly welcome:
- Labor economics
- Economics of education
- Health economics
Date
21.11.2019 - 22.11.2019
Venue
Institute for Employment Research
Regensburger Str. 100
90478 Nuremberg
Germany
Keynote speakers
- Gerard van den Berg (University of Bristol)
- Michael Rosholm (University of Aarhus)
Organisation
- Gerard van den Berg (University of Bristol),
- Bernd Fitzenberger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Pia Homrighausen (IAB)
- Elke Jahn (IAB and University of Bayreuth)
- Michael Oberfichtner (IAB)
- Michael Rosholm (University of Aarhus)
- Gesine Stephan (IAB and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Programme
THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2019
- 9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee
- 9:15 a.m. Welcome address Bernd Fitzenberger
- 9:30 a.m. Keynote Lecture I: Voluntary unemployment insurance for self-employed and other information treatments
Gerard van den Berg - 10:30 a.m. Coffee break
- 10:50 a.m. Session 1
- Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France
Todor Tochev - Evaluating the housing, health, and service outcomes of a housing-led, intensive support program for the chronically homeless in Australia
Daniel Kühnle
- Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch
- 1:00 p.m. Session 2
- Early Childhood Intervention from Pregnancy to Infancy: Effects at primary school age
Malte Sandner - Does Test-Based Teacher Recruitment work? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
Daniela Araujo
- Early Childhood Intervention from Pregnancy to Infancy: Effects at primary school age
- 2:10 p.m. Coffee break
- 2:20 p.m. Session 3
- Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care
Gustav Kjelsson - Vaccines at Work
Adrian Chadi
- Information, switching costs, and consumer choice: Evidence from two randomised field experiments in Swedish primary health care
- 3:30 p.m. Coffee break
- 3:50 p.m. Session 4
- When economic models discourage the encouragement design
Steven Lehrer - Collaborative Tax Evasion in Business-to-Consumer Trades: A Field Experiment
Sarah Necker
- When economic models discourage the encouragement design
- 5:00 p.m. End of first workshop day
- 7:00 p.m. Conference dinner: Restaurant Bruderherz, Luitpoldstr. 15, 90492 Nürnberg
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
- 9:15 a.m. Session 5
- Are Weak Ties Strong? How Information on Social Search Affects Job Finding
Patrick Arni - An RCT on caseworker meetings for still employed jobseekers: First Results
Michael Oberfichtner
- Are Weak Ties Strong? How Information on Social Search Affects Job Finding
- 10:25 a.m. Coffee break
- 10:50 a.m. Session 6
- Do more information make pupils leave the beaten paths? The impact of counselling for high-school pupils on career-decision making self-efficacy and choice of major
Joachim Piepenburg - Does extensive guidance of high school students reduce social inequalities in their intention to study?
Irena Pietrzyk
- Do more information make pupils leave the beaten paths? The impact of counselling for high-school pupils on career-decision making self-efficacy and choice of major
- 12:00 p.m. Keynote Lecture II: Teaching Math to Marginal Students Michael Rosholm
- 1:00 p.m. Farewell and Lunch (something to stay and to go)
In cooperation with
Labour and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg