CostasFest
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 |
|---|---|---|
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8:30 - 9:30 AM |
Breakfast and Registration |
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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) |
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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) |
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11:00 - 11:30 AM |
Coffee Break |
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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) |
|
12:15 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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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) |
|
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) |
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3:00 - 3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
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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) |
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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) |
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6:30 - 9:30 PM |
Dinner - Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street |
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Saturday, September 13
| Time | Title | Presented by |
|---|---|---|
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7:45 - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:30 - 9:15 AM |
“Teacher Value Added and Teacher Practices in Poor Countries” |
Presented by: Pedro Carniero* (UCL), Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota), Anusha Guha (IFS and the World Bank) and Sonya Krutikova (IFS and the Manchester) |
|
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) |
|
10:00 - 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break |
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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) |
|
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) |
|
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) |
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12:45 - 1:45 PM |
Lunch |
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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?
Yale and New Haven offer many attractions to bide your time while in the Elm City. Below is a list of a few:
Yale Attractions
- Yale University Art Gallery (free admission)
- Yale Center for British Art (free admission)
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (free with valid Yale ID)
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (open to the public)
- Yale Campus Tour
New Haven Attractions
- International Festival of Arts and Ideas (June Summer Festival)
- The New Haven Museum
- Knights of Columbus Museum
- East Rock Park (Map)
- Lighthouse Point Park
- New Haven Information Site
Performing Arts
- Yale Repertory Theater
- Yale University Theater
- Yale Symphony Orchestra
- Yale School of Music Concerts
- Yale Arts Calendar
- New Haven Shubert Theater
- Long Wharf Theater
- College Street Music Hall
- Criterion Cinemas
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:
- Police & Fire
- Emergency: 911
- Yale Police: 203-432-4400
- Security
- 203-785-5555
- Yale Health - Acute Care
- 203-432-0123
- Yale-New Haven Hospital
- 203-688-4242
- Facilities
- 203-432-6888
- Environmental Health & Safety
- 203-785-3555
- International Travel Emergencies
- 203-785-5555 (24-hour)
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.