Conference Schedule - Frontiers 2023

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SCHEDULE DAY 1: Friday, September 8, 2023

(St. George Campus - Rotman School of Management RT 374)

 

Time & Speakers Session Details
9:00 am - 9:35 am Registration & Breakfast
9:35 am - 9:40 am Opening Remarks

9:40 am - 10:20 am

Speaker: Lisa Tarquino

Segregation and the March Right: Extreme Right Politics in England and Wales (with Sergio Villar Vallenas)

10:20 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Roman Zarate

The Signaling Effects of High Schools on College Access: Reputation versus Value-Added (with Pía Basurto, Manuel Barrón & Martín Carbajal)
11:00 am - 11:20 am Break

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Speaker: Nicolas Ajzenman

Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties (with Bruno Ferman and Pedro C. Sant'Anna)

12:00 pm - 12:40 pm

Speaker: Fabian Lange

On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages (with Braz Camargo & Elena Pastorino)
12:45 pm - 2:10 pm Lunch

2:10 pm - 2:50 pm

Speaker: Marika Cabral

Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes (with Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell & Hannes Schwandt)

2:50 pm - 3:30 pm

Speaker: Caroline LePennec

Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Candidate Adjustments in U.S. and French Elections (with Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti & Vincent Pons)
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Break

3:50 pm - 4:30 pm

Speaker: Karen Ye

Parental Beliefs about Child Development: Community vs. Expert Knowledge (with Julie Pernaudet & Julia Seither)
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner by Invitation

 

 SCHEDULE DAY 2: Saturday, September 9, 2023

(Mississauga Campus - Innovation Complex KN 112)

 

Time & Speakers Session Details
8:45 am - 9:45 am (optional) Bus Transportation from St. George to Mississauga (Departing: Dept. of Economics, 150 St. George St, Toronto)
9:45 am - 10:15 am Registration & Breakfast

10:15 am - 11:15 am

Keynote: Marianne Bertrand

Investing in Influence
11:15 am - 11:30 am Break

11:30 pm - 12:10 pm

Speaker: Carolina Arteaga

Democracy & the Opioid Epidemic (with Victoria Barone)
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm Break

12:20 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Gautam Rao

The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes (with Bhargav Bhat, Jonathan de Quidt, Johannes Haushofer, Vikram Patel, Frank Schilbach & Pierre-Luc Vautrey)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm (optional) Bus Transportation from Mississauga to St. George (Departing: Dept. of Economics, 1833 Inner Cir Rd, Mississauga)

 

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