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Costas Meghir

A Celebratory Conference in Honor of Costas Meghir
 

Friday and Saturday, September 12-13, 2025


Conference Location:

Kline Tower, 14th Floor, 219 Prospect Street, New Haven

Dinner Location:
Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street, New Haven

Agenda

* Speaker

Friday, September 12
Time Title Presented by

8:30 - 9:30 AM

Breakfast and Registration

9:30 - 10:15 AM

“Marriage and Within-household Inequalities”

Presented by: Marion Goussé (CREST), Nicolas Jacquemet (PSE and Université Paris I), and Jean-Marc Robin* (Sciences Po)
Discussant: Giovanni Gallipoli* (University of British Columbia)

10:15 - 11:00 AM

“Joint Child Custody and the Mobility of Men”

Presented by: Abi Adams (University of Oxford), Oguz Bayraktar(University of Oxford), Thomas Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen), Hamish Low* (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Oxford), and Alessandra Voena (Stanford University)
Discussant: Rita Ginja* (University of Bergen)

11:00 - 11:30 AM

Coffee Break

 

11:30 - 12:15 PM

“Relating Cognitive  Skills and Personality Traits to the Economic Preferences of Chinese Children”

Presented by: Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University), James Heckman* (University of Chicago), Carlos Padilla (University of Chicago), and Zhe Yang (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Jaime Arellano-Bover* (Yale University)

12:15 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 - 2:15 PM

“Labour supply, Earnings and Income of Less-educated Individuals over Their Working Life: the Role of Marriage, Taxes, Disability and Welfare”

Presented by: Richard Blundell* (UCL and IFS), Monica Costa Dias (University of Bristol), Graham Mazeine (IFS), Costas Meghir (Yale University), and Tom Waters (IFS)
Discussant: Cormac O’Dea* (Yale University)

2:15 - 3:00 PM

“Earnings Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks”

Presented by: Benjamin Friedrich* (Northwestern University), Lisa Laun (IFAU), Costas Meghir (Yale University) & Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
Discussant: Gianluca Violante* (Princeton University)

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

 

3:30 - 4:15 PM

“Childbirth and Firm Performance: Evidence from Norwegian Entrepreneurs”

Presented by: John Bonney (Stanford University), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) and Alessandra Voena* (Stanford University)
Discussant: Barbara Biasi* (Yale Unviersity)

4:15 - 5:00 PM

“Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions”

Presented by: Frederik Almar (Aarhus University), Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University), Ana Reynoso* (University of Michigan), Bastian Schulz (Aarhus University), and Rune M. Vejlin (Aarhus University)
Discussant: Paula Calvo* (Arizona State University)

6:30 - 9:30 PM

Dinner - Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street

 
Saturday, September 13
Time Title Presented by

7:45 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 AM

“Teacher Value Added and Teacher Practices in Poor Countries”
(Virtual Session)

Presented by: Pedro Carniero* (UCL), Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota), Anusha Guha (IFS and the World Bank) and Sonya Krutikova (IFS and the Manchester)
Discussant: Christopher Neilson* (Yale University)

9:15 - 10:00 AM

“The Impacts of Guaranteed Basic Income on Crime Perpetration and Victimization”

Presented by: Mikko Aaltonen (University of Eastern Finland), Martti Kalia (University of Glasgow), and Emily Nix* (University of Southern California)
Discussant: John Eric Humphries* (Yale University)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

 

10:30 - 11:15 AM

“Public Health Insurance and Crowd Out in a Middle-Income Country: Seguero Popular and Birth Outcomes”

Presented by: Janet Currie* (Yale University), Fernanda Marquez-Padilla (El Colegio de México), and Lucy Hackett (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Emilia Simeonova* (Johns Hopkins University)

11:15 - 12:00 PM

“How Variational Are Earnings Dynamics?”

Presented by: Neele Balke (University of Chicago), Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago), and Thibaut Lamadon* (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Manuel Arellano* (CEMFI)

12:00 - 12:45 PM

“Household Earnings Volatility”

Presented by: Martin Andresen (University of Oslo), Andreas Kostøl (BI Norwegian Business School), Ross Milton (University of Wisconsin), Corina Mommaerts* (University of Wisconsin), and Luisa Wallossek (University of Wisconsin)
Discussant: Jeremy Lise* (Cornell University)

12:45 - 1:45 PM

Lunch

 
Kline 14 lobby

Participants

Jason Abaluck
Yale University

Emma Aguila
University of Southern California

Joseph Altonji
Yale University

Veli Murat
Andirin Yale University

Manuel Arellano
CEMFI

Jaime Arellano-Bover
Yale University

David Argente
Yale University

Helen Baker-Henningham
Bangor University

Marianne Bernatzky
Charles River Associates

Steve Berry
Yale University

Barbara Biasi
Yale University

Emily Bjorkman
Yale University

Richard Blundell
UCL and IFS

Leah Boustan
Yale University

Olympia Bover
CEMFI

Paula Calvo
Arizona State University

Pedro Carniero
UCL

Guillermo Carranza Jordan
Yale University

Pedro Casavilca Silva
Davidson College

Annie Chen
Yale University

Xiaohong Chen
Yale University

Gaurav Chiplunkar
University of Virginia

Cody Cook
Yale University

Zack Cooper
Yale University

Monica Costa Dias
University of Bristol

Janet Currie
Yale University

Savita Diggs
Yale University

Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Duke University

Mayara Felix
Yale University

Martin Ferrari Tagle
Yale University

Lucas Finamor
Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV

Jean-Pierre Florens
Toulouse School of Economics, University Toulouse Capitole

Ben Friedrich
Northwestern University

Giovanni Gallipoli
University of British Columbia

Rita Ginja
University of Bergen

Serena Goldberg
Yale University

Junxing Gu
Yale University

James Heckman
University of Chicago

John Eric Humphries
Yale University

Hidehiko Ichimura
University of Arizona

Kamila Janmohamed
Yale University

Alena Kang-Landsberg
Yale University

Samuel Kortum
Yale University

Thibaut Lamadon
University of Chicago

Rosie Li
Yale University

Jeremy Lise
Cornell University

Hamish Low
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Oxford

Bentley MacLeod
Yale University

Victoria Marone
Yale University

Carlos Medina
Banco de la República de Colombia

Costas Meghir
Yale University

Ariyan Mishra
University of Chicago

Corina Mommaerts
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Melanie Morten
Stanford University

Giuseppe Moscarini
Yale University

Kaivan Munshi
Yale University

Yusuke Narita
Yale University

Christopher Neilson
Yale University

Tra Nguyen
Yale University

Emily Nix
University of Southern California

Cormac O’Dea
Yale University

Florian Oswald
Collegio Carlo Alberto, SciencesPo Paris

Ariel Pakes
Harvard University

Diana Perez Lopez
Yale University

Michael Peters
Yale University

Luigi Pistaferri
Stanford University

Christian Posso
Banco de la República de Colombia

Ana Reynoso
University of Michigan

Marius Ring
Yale University

Jean-Marc Robin
Sciences Po

Karl Schulze
Yale University

Katja Seim
Yale University

Sreyashi Sharmin
Yale University

Soumitra Shukla
Harvard Business School and The Burning Glass Institute

Emilia Simeonova
Johns Hopkins University

Eric Solomon
Yale University

Samuel Solomon
Yale University and Temple University

Winnie van Dijk
Yale University

Diana Van Patten
Yale University

Gianluca Violante
Princeton University

Alessandra Voena
Stanford University

Edward Vytlacil
Yale University

Yuan Wang
Yale University

Carolina Wiegand
Yale University

Pengpeng Xiao
Duke University

Ziqing Yan
Yale University

Zhe Yang
University of Chicago

Bianca Yue
Yale University

Diana Zhu
RiseLink

Zhengren Zhu
Vassar College

Seth Zimmerman
Yale University

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get to the conference location from the Omni Hotel?

The conference will be held at Kline Tower, located at 219 Prospect Street, and is about a 20 minute walk from the Omni Hotel. The easiest route to Kline from the Omni Hotel is to go north-east on Temple Street until you reach Grove Street. Take a left on Grove and a right on Hillhouse Ave. Follow Hillhouse north until you reach Kline Tower at the top of Science Hill (see map below).

How can I connect to the Yale Wi-Fi network while attending a conference?

Yale provides visitors two Wi-Fi network options:

  • YaleGuest
  • Eduroam

YaleGuest is a public, insecure wireless network available for anyone’s use, but has limited network access. Due to security reasons, certain programs and functionality may not be accessible via the YaleGuest network, e.g., Dropbox, Skype, and Box.

If possible, we recommended you use the Eduroam wireless network. Eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service that allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campuses when visiting other participating institutions.

If your institution is a partner, access the Eduroam network by selecting Eduroam from the Wi-Fi list on your mobile device and sign-in using your home institution’s credentials*. View Eduroam’s complete listing of U.S. participating schools; International visitors can look for institutional listings on this country page.

For additional details, please contact your institution’s IT department or search your institution’s support page.

*Credential format is typically ID@UniversityName.edu, e.g., YaleNetID@yale.edu or SUNetID@win.stanford.edu.

What can I do in New Haven during my stay?
Where can I find a campus map?

The Cowles Foundation is located in the heart of Yale’s campus at 30 Hillhouse Avenue. Use the Yale campus map to help find your way around.

Who do I contact in case of an emergency?

In cases of emergency, contact the appropriate department listed below:

You can also report a crime or send an anonymous text tip through our Bulldog Mobile (LiveSafe) app. (To register for Bulldog Mobile please visit the Yale LiveSafe page)

For addtional emergency information, visit the Yale Emergency Management website.

Sponsored by the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

Conference Organizers: Joseph Altonji and Luigi Pistaferri