Keynote lectures will be given by: - Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) - Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) - Sarah Turner (University of Virginia)

Topics: - The State and the Family: (Desired and Undesired) Effects of Family Policies ; - How Should We Design Parental Leave Policies? Evidence from Two Reforms in Italy ; - The Effects of Minimum Working Hours: Theory and Evidence ; - Heterogeneous Responses of Productivity to Labor Market...

Evidence-based policy in education and in other fields of the public sector implies the use of sophisticated techniques to assess the performance and efficiency of organizations. The evaluation of national-level reforms and the assessment of specific interventions in education and other public...

Economists typically view personality, attitudes and preferences as central determinants of decision making. While there is a consensus that heterogeneity in personality traits and preferences is an important driver of socio-economic outcomes, the emergence and development of personality traits...

Keynote lectures will be given by: - Susanna Loeb (Brown University), - Sandra McNally (University of Surrey), - Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

The workshop aims at bringing together junior and senior economists to present and discuss their ongoing research on human capital. We particularly encourage topics related to both the functioning of the education system and the role of accumulation of knowledge, skills and ability in the labor...

Due to the COVID-19 exceptional emergency and the situation in Italy we are forced to cancel this year edition of IWAEE.

This event has been cancelled.

Themen: Sharing Economy in der Wissenschaft; Qualitätssicherung: hochschulinterne und –externe Konzepte; Personalentwicklung und akademischer Arbeitsmarkt an Hochschulen: neue Personalkategorien, Karriereverläufe, Zukunftsaussichten; Bedeutung von Begutachtungsprozessen; Anreize und Probleme...

Topics: all applied areas of education economics.