Victoire Girard (Nova Lisbon) will give a presentation on Artisanal mining in Africa: Green for gold? Abstract: The livelihoods of 130 to 270 million people depend on artisanal mining, a labor-intensive and often informal extractive activity. Leveraging research in geology and exogenous changes in gold prices, we build the first continent-wide proxy of artisanal gold mining.

Kam Pui Tsang (KU Leuven) will give a presentation on Sanctioning forced labour in China: Evidence from the US cotton ban Abstract: Over the last two decades, the use of targeted sanctions has been on the rise. A more recent phenomenon has been the rise of humanitarian sanctions aiming at curbing human rights abuses and corruption.

  Programme of the IRES Afternoon   14:30 - 14:45 Silvia Peracchi Understanding cross-border workers’ decisions 14:45 - 15:00 Sandy Tubeuf Public preferences for environmentally-responsible healthcare 15:05 - 15:20 Jean-François Maystadt Skilled-Worker Visas for Refugees: A research proposal 15:20 - 15:35 Gonzague Vannoorenb

Matthias Doepke (LSE) will give a presentation on The Political Economy of Laws to `Protect' Women Abstract: During the first half of the 20th century, the US introduced state laws that imposed restrictions on women's labor market opportunities.

Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on The Legacy of the Roman Empire Network Integration in the Western European Trade Abstract: This research examines the path-dependence relationship between economic integration in Western Europe under Roman rule from 75BC to 200AC and economic integration between the current European regions, intending to determ

Diego Malo Rico (IRES/LIDAM) will give a presentation on Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access Abstract: This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access.

Michael Waugh (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) will give a presentation on Heterogeneous Agent Trade Abstract: This paper studies the implications of household heterogeneity for trade. I develop a model where household heterogeneity is induced via incomplete markets and results in heterogeneous price elasticities.

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (IRES/LIDAM) Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France Abstract: The growing economic divide between globalized urban centers and left-behind rural places is a powerful narrative in many countries. This paper uses rich administrative micro data to quantify whether urban-rural economic linkages have decreased in France over the period 1995-2015.

Laura Gati (European Central Bank ) will give a presentation on Monetary communication rules Abstract: Does the Federal Reserve follow a communication rule? We propose a simple framework to estimate communication rules, which we conceptualize as a systematic mapping between the Fed’s expectations of macroeconomic variables and the words they use to talk about the economy.

Jing-Rong Zeng (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) will give a presentation on In Search of Lost Peace: The Local Effects of Peacekeepers on Conflict Dynamics in Africa Abstract: This study investigates the influence of peacekeeping intervention on the evolution of local conflict intensity, offering the first quantitative insights into their long-term effectiveness.