From the 5th to the 6th April, 2024, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management will be hosting the Lisbon Migration Economics Workshop. The aim of this conference is to bring together junior and senior researchers with specialisation in the field of migration economics.
Keynote speakers: Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London) and Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)
Scientific Committee:
- João Pereira dos Santos (ISEG, Queen Mary University of London, IZA)
- Ana Venâncio (ISEG, Cesifo)
- Susana Peralta (Nova SBE)
- Julia Bredtmann (RWI, IZA, University of Duisburg-Essen, CReAM)
- Cátia Batista (Nova SBE)
- David Zuchowski (RWI, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Program - Day 1
| 8h30-9h | Welcoming the participants | |
| Room: Auditorium 2 | Room: Delta | |
| 9h-9h35 | The American Origin of the French Revolution Sebastian Ottinger | The Trade-Creating Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from Household Purchase Data Brett A. McCully |
| 9h35-10h10 | The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration in the United States David Escamilla-Guerrero | The Effect of Foreign Aid on Migration Andre Groeger |
| 10h10-10h45 | Immigrant Diversity and Long-Run Development Luigi Minale | Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach Joel Machado |
| 10h45-11h15 | Coffee break | |
| 11h15-11h40 | Immigration and Worker Responses Across Firms: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia Lukas Delgado-Prieto | Immigration, Parenthood and Child Penalties María Alexandra Castellanos |
| 11h40-12h05 | Skills, Distortions, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants across Space Gabriele Lucchetti | Syrian Refugees and Intra-family Inequality: Evidence from Turkiye Nur Bilge |
| 12h05-12h30 | A bad break-up? Assessing the effects of the Brexit referendum on migration Ines Homburg | The Economics of Family-based Immigration Sebastian Kupek |
| 12h30-13h45 | Lunch | |
| 13h45-14h45 | Migration and Social Cohesion Sandra Sequeira | |
| 14:50-15:25 | Immigration, Inequality and Income Taxes Mirjam Bächli | Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health Linea Hasager |
| 15h25-16h00 | Do immigrants hurt local public finances? Evidence from Italy Furio Rosati | Discrimination in grading? Evidence on teachers' evaluation bias towards minority students Julia Bredtmann |
| 16h-16h30 | Break | |
| 16h30-17h05 | Hometown Conflict and Refugees' Integration Efforts Cevat Giray Aksoy | Expected Benefits and Costs of Migration for Rural Youth: Experimental Evidence from India Apurav Bhatiya |
| 17h05-17h40 | All that glitters? Golden visas and the real estate market Joao Perreira dos Santos | The Power of Dialogue: Forced Displacement and Social Integration amid an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique Henrique Pita Barros |
| 17h40-18h15 | – | The economic contribution of freed slave returnees: Evidence from the godfathering networks of the Agudas in 19th century Benin Guilherme Lambais |
| 19h30 | Dinner at Clube dos Jornalistas Restaurant Rua das Trinas 129, 1200-857 Lisboa |
Program - Day 2
| Room: Auditorium 2 | Room: Delta | |
| 9h-9h35 | Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants Anthony Edo | POLITICAL INTERDEPENDENCE: Evidence from Migrant Voter Turnout in 1,267 Elections Worldwide Laurence Go |
| 9h35-10h10 | Quaking Childhoods, Early Wives: The Impacts of Forced Displacement on Marriage Laura Muñoz Blanco | Home Country Socio-Political Conditions, Return Intentions, and Labor Market Outcomes Teresa Freitas Monteiro |
| 10h10-10h45 | Return migration and the human capital of the new generation Velichka Dimitrova | The electoral impact of a large return migration shock in a nascent democracy Susana Peralta |
| 10h45-11h15 | Break | |
| 11h15-12h15 | The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from the African Diaspora Marco Manacorda | |
| 12h20-12h45 | Migration and native health: new evidence from the workplace Izabela Wnuk | The Costs of Building Walls: Immigration and the Fiscal Burden of Aging in Europe Tiago Bernardino |
| 12h45-13h10 | Immigration and Cultural Heterogeneity: Evidence from two Decades in Europe Yasmine Elkhateeb | Conflict, Road Insecurity and Migration in Mali Marion Richard |
| 13h15-14h30 | Lunch | |
| 14h30-15h05 | Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe Valentina Di Iasio | A Spatial Macroeconomic Model of Climate Migration Michal Burzynski |
| 15h05-15h40 | Football and Anti-migration Sentiment: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup Giuseppe Ippedico | Unlucky Migrants: Scarring Effect of Recessions on the Assimilation of the Foreign Born Alessandro Ruggieri |
This workshop is kindly sponsored by the Foundation for Science and Technology - Project 2022.01500.PTDC
