GLO-Bonn-2026 Conference – List of Accepted Papers – Draft: September 17, 2026; 3:12 pm CEST

• General information about the conference and submission link for contributed papers find HERE.

• We can only accept one contributed paper per presenting person. Otherwise, you need to mobilize a co-author.
• However, if you have (i) a published paper in the Journal of Population Economics in a 2026 issue or one accepted for publication in the Journal and/or (ii) a chapter in the GLO – supported Handbook “Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” either in preparation, forthcoming or published in 2026 or before, you are invited to present this in addition at the conference.
  – Please submit title and abstract to conference@glabor.org with email subject “GLOBonn2026 Handbook” or “GLOBonn2026 JOPE”.
  – Conference fee will only be once per person (even with presentation of 3 articles, new contribution, JOPE article & Handbook chapter)
  – Acceptance decisions will follow in due course.

• The list of ACCEPTED PAPERS is below following the CAP (Continuously Accepting Papers) model. CAP-listed paper presenters below can make their visa, travel & accommodation decisions and pay the requested fee. Those who have paid the fees, will be moved to the in-person or online category below. The conference program will be provided closer to the meeting.

• GLO Job Market Sessions are online only on December 3-4 — there will be a separate Call for Papers announced in due course here.

ACCEPTED PAPERS

IMPORTANT: When you are listed here, you paper is accepted. Congratulations!
– The person listed in bold is considered to be the paper presenter. If this changes, inform conference@glabor.org in time.
– As soon as you have paid the conference fee (see LINK for details), you are moved to the proper section (in-person, online) below and (closer to the conference date) included in the conference program.
– If you need a special invitation letter (invitation, general or for visa; payment confirmation), check the instructions (LINK), copy, paste and complete the respective template and send it to conference@glabor.org

A. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

Salem Abo-Zaid (University of Maryland-Baltimore County)
Fertility Decline and Perceived Societal Risk in the United States

Aqueel Ahmad (Indian Institute of Technology), Mahamitra Das (Indian Institute of Technology) & Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology)
Land, Law and Leaving: How Inheritance Reforms Shape Male Migration Patterns

Daniela Andrén (Örebro University School of Business)
Academic or Vocational Education? Parents’ Expectation and Preference at Age 13 and Their Children’s Adult Educational Attainment and Earnings in a Swedish School-Year Cohort

Syed Ather Akbari (Saint Mary’s University)
From Immigration Expansion to Regionalization: Canada’s Changing Immigration Policy in an International Context

Richard Akresh (University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Damien de Walque (The World Bank), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State University) & Abigail Stocker (College of William & Mary)
Medium-Term Impacts of Integrated Social Safety Nets: Cash Transfers, Information Meetings, and Home Visits for Child Development

Shireen Alazzawi (Santa Clara University)
How Exposed are Workers in MENA to AI? Evidence on Occupational Risks, Complementarity and the Digital Divide

Sahawal Alidou (African Development Bank)
Exploring an apparent paradox: Preschool education and primary school learning outcomes in Togo

Yebetchou Rostand Arland (University of Eastern Piedmont) & Marco Tedeschi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Good Institutions, Better Lives? Evidence from Italian Local Governments

Sona Badalyan (University of Bonn)
Crowded Career Ladders? Intra-firm Spillovers of Raised Retirement Age

Mehrzad B. Baktash (University of Trier) & Uwe Jirjahn University of Trier)
Up to the Top or Stuck in the Middle: Does Gender Influence How Far Machiavellian Personalities Climb the Corporate Ladder?

Ayona Bhattacharjee (IMI New Delhi), Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics) & Mukta Jain
Income Differentials & Rate of Time Preference: A Developing Country Perspective

Nilanjan Bhattacharya (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi)
Credit Supply Shocks and Health: Evidence from India’s Microfinance Crisis

Amruta Bagwe (University of Southampton)
Tied Too Soon: The Impact of Child Marriage Reform on Young Women in India

Safia Bibi (University Islam International Indonesia, Depok) & Teguh Yudo Wicaksono (University Islam International Indonesia, Depok)
Digital Connectivity, PM₂.₅ Pollution, and Healthcare Expenditure: Does Internet Penetration Moderate the Long-Run Environmental Health Burden in Asian Economies?

Soumi Bose (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus) & Shreya Biswas (BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)
Beyond the ban: Women’s employment dynamics in Bihar

Ylenia Brilli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Bernardo Fanfani (Università di Torino) & Daniela Piazzalunga (Università di Trento)
The gender gap in employment protection: the role of fertility and statistical discrimination

Linh Bui (Australian National University)
When Maternity Leave Backfires: Gender-biased Leave, Informality, and Female Labour Supply

Arnab Basu (Cornell University), Tsenguunjav Byambasuren (Trinity College Dublin) & Nancy Chau (Cornell University)
Alcohol Consumption and Intimate Partner Violence: Long-Term Effects of a Temporary Alcohol Ban

Rocco Caferra (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”), Giuseppe Di (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”) , Andrea Morone (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”), and David Stadelmann (University of Bayreuth)
Lives, Life-Years, and Livelihoods: Scientists’ Values and Population Welfare Priorities during COVID-19

Averi Chakrabarti (American Institutes for Research)
Evaluating the Effects of a Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management Intervention in India

Anjishnu Banerjee (Medical College of Wisconsin) & Avik Chakrabarti (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
Spatial Covariance Structures and the Income Elasticity of Life Expectancy: Theory and Evidence

Carolina Castilla (Colgate University), Tarana Chauhan (Colgate University) & David Murphy (Colgate University)
When Women Defer: Agency, Resource Control, and Intimate Partner Violence

Libo Chen (University of Southampton)
Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Switch: Evidence from Linked Patent and Microdata in the US

Ji Hye Choi (Rutgers University)
Household Bargaining and Desistance from Crime

Filippo Curti (The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Cheaper to Run, Harder to Earn: Working From Home and Bank Efficiency

Hai-Anh Dang (World Bank)
Do Middle-Income Traps Exist? New Evidence from Global Subnational Analysis

Rajat Acharyya (Jadavpur University Kolkata), Hamid Beladi (University of Texas at San Antonio), Gouranga Das (Hanyang University, South Korea), Shrimoyee Ganguly (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra) & Sugata Marjit (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
AI-driven Technological Progress, Finite Change and Wages

Moumita Das (University of California) & Anirban Sanyal (University of California)
Adaptation in Motion: Temporary Migration under Heat Stress

Urvi Dhar (Indian Institute of Management) 
Does Entry Route Matter? Career Pathways, Human Capital, and Judicial Decisions

Rohit Duwadi (Plaksha University) & Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University)
Terrorism and Capital-Labour Substitution

Juliette de Wit (University of Groningen) & Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen)
Entrepreneurs as Early Adopters of Generative AI

Gaurav Dhamija (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad), Sagnik Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad) & Manini Ojha (O. P. Jindal Global University)
The Protective Power of Connectivity: Internet Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence

Hayat ElAdraoui (Iscae)
Work, Dignity and Commitment: A Humanistic Perspective on Organizational Loyalty in the Moroccan Context

Alena Bicakova (CERGE-EI), Miroslava Federicova (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education) & Barbara Pertold-Gebicka (Charles University)
Where Do Women Leave the STEM Pipeline? Evidence from College Applications to Graduation

Luca Fumarco (University of Bergamo), Lukas Laffers (Matej Bel University) & Francesco Principe (Università di Bergamo)
Causal Mechanisms of Relative Age Effects on Adolescent Risky Behaviours

Andrea Albanese (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Giovanni Gallo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) & Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg)
The Academic Cost of Superstition: Evidence from Italy

Suresh Govindapuram (Krea University)
Climate, Credit, and Gender Outcomes in India: Implications for Women’s Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence

Amanda Guimbeau (University of Sherbrooke)
How Institutions Shape the Incidence of Demographic Shocks: Evidence From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial India

Neha Hui (University of Reading) & Sam Rawlings (University of Reading)
Political Conflict, Gender Norms, and Domestic Violence in Nigeria

Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu (University of Aberdeen) & Barbara Ama Zelu (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Beyond the Kitchen: Clean Cooking Fuel Adoption and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana

Faru Aftab (Cardiff University), Marina Della Giusta (Università di Torino), Sarah Jewell (University of Reading) & Samantha Rawlings (University of Reading)

Gil Epstein (Bar-Ilan University), Odelia Heizler (Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College and GLO) & Osnat Israeli; Ashkelon Academic College

Istvan Konya (Budapest Corvinus University)
Wage bargaining, relative prices and capital: the impact of immigration on wages and wage inequality

Shernazarova Komila (KAIST)
Why Do Some Early-Career Unemployment Spells Become Long-Lasting? Evidence from South Korea

SUMANA LAHIRI (Pandit Deendayal Energy University)
Working Children, Schooling Children: Production Embeddedness, Time Poverty and Child Wellbeing in India’s Informal Economy

Seunghee Lee (Korea Development Institute)
Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Korea: From Degrees to Ranks

Renan Marques (Duke University), Mateus Maciel (University of Tübingen) & David Zuchowski (University of Valencia)
Under pressure? Forced migration and public health

Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management-Indore) & Bipasha Maity (Ashoka University)
Environmental Shocks and Within-Household Inequality: Evidence from India

Shreya Malhotra (Fairfield University)
Do prenups reduce Conspicuous Consumption during mate-selection process? A Game-Theoretic Analysis with Heterogeneous Types

Daniele Marchesi (University of Groningen) & Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen)
Income and Happiness

Christopher Mathen (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), S. Chandrasekhara & Manisha Jaina
Hot Days, Less Work? Exposure, Flexibility, and Subsistence Effects on Labour Supply in India

Meghna (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
When Men Work, Do Women Work? Sectoral Patterns of Intra-household Labor Supply in India

Swapnil Motghare (University of Notre Dame)
Fiber Broadband and Local Hiring: Evidence from Staggered Deployment and Online Job Postings

Tista Mukherjee (IISER Bhopal)
From Backlash to Benefit: Intergenerational Effects of India’s Anti-Dowry Law on Girls’ Education

Chihiro Inoue (Kobe University), Yutaro Nakai (Barcelona School of Economics), Suguru Otani (University of Tokyo) & Xiangyun Yin (Kobe University)
A Cram-School Tutor Like Me: Tutor Gender, Generation, and Student Retention

Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University)
Priority, Opportunity, and Allocation in Centralized Admissions

Kumari Neha (Ministry of Commerce)
Public Spending, Income Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from High-Income and Developing Countries

Nicholas Giannakopoulos (University of Patras)
Daphne Nicolitsas (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Selective Schools and Success in National University Entrance Examinations: Evidence from Greece

Tsenguunjav Byambasuren (Trinity College Dublin) & Anh Nguyen (Vietnam National University HCMC)
Artisanal Mining and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen), Viliana Milanova (University of Groningen) &
Feicheng Wang (University of Groningen)
When AI Does the Work: Does Attribution Shape Meaning and Effort?

Carolina Nunes (University College Dublin) & João Pereira dos Santos (ISEG Lisbon)
Gimme Shelter: Tax Exemptions, Credit Guarantees, and Young Homebuyers

Arsène Perrot (Gran Sasso Science Institute) & Paolo Veneri (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
Learning Apart? Workplace Segregation and Learning Across Workers

Alena Bicakova (CERGE-EI), Miroslava Federicova (CERGE-EI) & Barbara Pertold-Gebicka (Charles University)
Filtered-in, filtered-out: Do competitive entrance exams widen the gender STEM gap?

Michał Pilc (Poznań University of Economics and Business), Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek (Poznań University of Economics and Business) & Megha Patnaik (LUISS Guido Carli)
Remote Work, Spatial Constraints, and Women’s Job Preferences Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Six European Countries

Fernando Borraz (Universidad de la República) & Susan Pozo (Western Michigan University)
Uncertainty and Remittances: Evidence from Refugees and Economic Migrants

Sarah Jewell (University of Reading) & Sam Rawlings (University of Reading)
Social Norms in Public Space: Vignette Evidence from Breastfeeding in Public

Tommaso Reggiani (Cardiff University)
The long-term impact of church activity on social capital

Ilaria Beghini (University of Padova) & Enrico Rettore (University of Padova)
Male reaction to female empowerment: the case of Italian municipality elections

Cinzia Rienzo (University of Brighton)
Job Insecurity and Mental Health During the Pandemic in the United Kingdom

Aakriti Saraswat (Fordham University)
Paving the Path to Safety: Rural Roads and Intimate Partner Violence in India

Kingshuk Sarkar (Goa Institute of Management)
Reimagining the Relevance of Minimum Wage in Predominantly Informal Labour Market in India

Vishavdeep Sharma (The Ohio State University)
Cross-Border Common Ownership and the Gains from Trade in Employment

Anupam Shikha (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research), Digvijay Negi (Ashoka University) & Biswajit Patra (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
Health Shocks and Intra-household Reallocation of Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Prakashani Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Neelanjan Datta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) & Sohini Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Gender budgeting, school infrastructure, and girls’ schooling participation: Evidence from the Indian states

Tanmay Singh (Jönköping International Business School)
Who Governs the Forest? Politician Identity and Forest Conservation in India

Pawel Struski (GRAPE) & Joanna Tyrowicz (GRAPE)
Trends in parity and fertility around the world

Yu Shen (Nanjing Agricultural University) & Wenkai Sun (Renmin University of China)
Informed Births: Fertility Responses to Information Disclosure in China

Naveen Sunder (Bentley University)
Education and Trust in Medicine: Evidence from Five Natural Experiments in Africa

Eduard van der Merwe (Rice University)
Preaching Against the Choir: Religious Leaders and Reproductive Norms in Kenya

Ao Yin (University of Groningen) & Agnieszka Postepska (University of Groningen)
Discretion, Marketization, and the Gender Wage Gap in China

Georgina Chew Yan Teng (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Heterogeneous Pathways from Education to Employment: A Mixture Hidden Markov Model Analysis of Korean Youth

Mihails Hazans (BICEPS and University of Latvia), Maxim Levchenko (BICEPS) & Ija Trapeznikova (BICEPS and Royal Holloway University of London)
Reverse Gender Gap: How Different Are Similarly Paid Men and Women in Europe?

Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University) &
Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University)
Surviving the Daily Heat: Climate Change and Labor Productivity

Debora Di Gioacchino (Università di Roma La Sapienza) & Alina Verashchagina (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Media Exposure, Public Attitudes Toward Immigration, and Policy Support

Lieke Voorintholt (Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union)
Whose Job Is It? Grandparenthood, Childcare, and Labour Supply

Davit Adunts (IAB) & Andreas Vortisch (IAB)
Tapping Foreign Potential: How Germany’s Western Balkans Regulation Shaped Labor Migration

Hyuk Woo (Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, KMLA)
Demographic Aging and the Optimal Allocation of Technology Adoption Subsidies

Qianyan Xu (Lund University)
Intergenerational Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation

Yoav Yosipovich (Yorkville University)
Navigating Digital Trade and Supply Chain Fragility: Assessing the Impact of AI Integration on Labor Productivity, Risk Allocation, and Worker Adaptation in Global Value Chains

Gylfi Zoega (University of Iceland)
Do Gender Gaps in Education Affect Matching and Fertility? 

Gerjan Zwiers (University of Groningen)
The Effect of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Children’s Later-Life Outcomes: Does it Run Through Divorce?

B. SPECIAL SESSIONS HANDBOOK

Emma Aguila (University of Southern California) & Raquel Fonseca
Informality, Gig Work, and Retirement

Andrea Crippa (University of Perugia), Giorgio d’Agostino (University of Rome “Roma Tre”),
John Paul Dunne (University of Cape Town) & Luca Pieroni (Università di Perugia)
Conflict and Migration

Hai-Anh H. Dang (Worldbank)
Poverty Mobility in Developing Countries

Mihajlo Đukić (Institute of Economic Sciences)
Taxing Risky Behavior

Georgios Efthyvoulou (University of Sheffield)
How Terrorism Shapes Public Attitudes

Laura Juarez (El Colegio de México) &  Fernanda Marquez-Padilla (El Colegio de México)
Is There a Menopause Penalty?

Mateus Maciel (University of Tübingen) & David Zuchowski (University of Valencia)
Immigration and Crime

Agnieszka Postepska (University of Groningen)
Role Models, Parents, and Gendered-Typed Career Choices

Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University)
Sex-selective Abortions

Olga Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Lin Yang
Armed Conflict and Civilian Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Saurabh Gupta (Plaksha University) & Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University)
The Gendered Impact of Employment Protection Legislation

Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University), Anshika Arora & Sarvnipun Kaur
Working-Time Regulations and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

C. SPECIAL SESSIONS Journal of Population Economics

Mateus Maciel (University of Tübingen)
Rushing to the altar? Same-sex marriages when rights feel at risk

Giorgio d’Agostino (University of Rome), John Paul Dunne (University of Cape Town), Donatella Lanari (University of Perugia) & Luca Pieroni (Università di Perugia)
Demography Under Fire: The Long-Run Mortality Effects of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries

IN THE PROGRAM

In-person: November 30 – December 2, 2026

Keynote Lectures

• Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods & University of Cologne): How to be a good leader: Insights from behavioral economics
• Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business; JOPE Associate Editor): AI, wage inequality, and the labor share

Contributed Papers

• Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & JOPE Associate Editor), Rob Alessie (University of Groningen) & Eduard Suari-Andreu
  Of love and other motives: the within-family distribution of gifts and inheritances
• Charlotte Eisvogel (University of Bonn), Mateus Maciel (University of Tübingen) & David Zuchowski (Universitat de València)
  Let’s Connect: Mobile Internet and Fertility Behavior
• Rupsa Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology), Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology) & Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology)
  Soil Endowment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Child Health Outcomes
• Jesús Arellano-González (Banco de Mexico) & Daniel Osuna-Gomez (Banco de Mexico)
  The Effect of Return Migration on Prices
• Martha Ottenbacher (University Luxembourg), Aia Zaiter ((University Luxembourg), Axel Grund (University Luxembourg) & Philipp Sonnleitner (University Luxembourg)
  Global migration and local integration: On the long-term effects of early grade retention
• Harry Anthony Patrinos (University of Arkansas) & Angelica Rivera-Olvera (University of Arkansas)
  Education and Earnings in Europe
• Olga Popova (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies), Petar Stankov (Royal Holloway, University of London), Vladimir Otrachshenko (National Bank of Slovakia) & Guglielmo Valastro (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Does a democratic environmental Kuznets curve exist? Evidence from historical data
• Bakhrom Mirkasimov (Westminster International University), Olga Popova (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies; JOPE Associate Editor), Vladimir Otrachshenko (National Bank of Slovakia), Nargiza Jurakulova (Westminster International University) & Nargiza Alimukhamedova (Westminster International University)
  Do informal institutions smooth well-being during economic hardship? The case of the Uzbek gap
• Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology), Gargi Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology) & Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology)
  Widowhood, Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India
• Seema Sangita (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Unequal effect of computer technology on intra-factory wages and employment

SPECIAL SESSIONS HANDBOOK

• Harry Anthony Patrinos (University of Arkansas)
  Seventy Years of Human Capital: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn

Online: December 3-4, 2026

• Migration

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto & University of Turin; JOPE Editor), Alicia De Quinto & Zoe Kuehn (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; JOPE Associate Editor)
Joint Custody and the Decline in US Migration

Amelie F. Constant (University of Pennsylvania)
Emigration from Affluence: Dynamic Selection and the Non-return of High Earners among Native Norwegians

Ezgi Kaya (Cardiff Business School)
Labour market differences between immigrant and UK-born employees: What is the role of employers?

Alex Tuft (The University of Wyoming) & Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia University)
Visa Access and the Geography of Skilled Work: Evidence from the H-1B Lottery

• Dec. 3: 2-3 pm CET.
  GLO Monthly Seminar. Chair:  Viola Angelini (University of Groningen; JOPE Associate Editor)
  Julie Hotchkiss (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
  What’s Behind Declining Birth Rates in the U.S.?

• Gender-Based Violence

Astghik Mavisakalyan (Curtin University; JOPE Editor), Quynh Nga Do & Pushkar Maitra
Can Civic Mobilisation Reduce Gender-Based Violence? Evidence from March 4 Justice Demonstrations in Australia

• Population Theory

Gregory Ponthiere (École Normale Supérieure de Rennes; JOPE Editor), Marie-Louise Leroux, (Université du Québec à Montréal) & Pierre Pestieau (University of Liege)
Childhood, Well-Being and Fairness

• Contributed Papers

Yanli Chen (Pepperdine University)
Federal Contracting as a Labor-Market Reintegration Pathway for Service-Disabled Women Veterans