December 3-4, 2026. Sessions online only, all CET Berlin
Draft Nov. 1, 2026; 05:00 pm CET.
Online participation open for all GLO-Bonn-2026 participants.
Zoom LINK will be provided in time.
NOTE: PRELIMINARY !!!
(*O = confirmed but not finally registered)
NOTE: Sessions will take place in time-zones around the globe in line with local fit.
NOTE:
– In-person sessions program for November 30 – December 2, see LINK.
– Online GLO Jobmarket sessions program December 3-4, see LINK (to be announced).
December 3, 2026
01:00 – 03:00 CET EDUCATION I
Chair: Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & JOPE Associate Editor)
– Sydney & Canberra, Australia 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
– Seoul, South Korea, 9:00 am – 11:00 am
- Shernazarova Komila (KAIST)
Why Do Some Early-Career Unemployment Spells Become Long-Lasting? Evidence from South Korea - 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 - Seunghee Lee (Korea Development Institute)
Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Korea: From Degrees to Ranks - Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & JOPE Associate Editor)
03:00 CET BREAK
03:30 – 05:30 CET GENDER I
Chair: Astghik Mavisakalyan (Curtin University; JOPE Editor)
3:30 am – 5:30 am CET
– Sydney & Canberra, Australia (AEDT): 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
– Hanoi, Vietnam (ICT): 9:30 am – 11:30 am
– Mexico City, Mexico (CST): 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm (Wednesday, Dec 2)
- Linh Bui (Australian National University)
When Maternity Leave Backfires: Gender-biased Leave, Informality, and Female Labour Supply - Laura Juarez (El Colegio de México) & Fernanda Marquez-Padilla (El Colegio de México)
Is There a Menopause Penalty? - Tsenguunjav Byambasuren (Trinity College Dublin) & Anh Nguyen (Vietnam National University HCMC)
Artisanal Mining and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa - 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
05:30 CET BREAK
06:00 – 08:00 CET HUMAN CHALLENGES IN INDIA
Chair: Kompal Sinha (University of Sydney & JOPE Editor)
– New Delhi, India 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
– Sydney, Australia 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Rohan Gudibande (Krea University) & Dibyajyoti Basak (University of Notre-Dame)
Land Conflict and Road Infrastructure – Evidence from India - Vinayak Krishnatri (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) & Sukumar Vellakkal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Urbanization and Child Health in India: Declining Mortality but Rising Nutritional Risks - Dweepobotee Brahma (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)
A Good Start: Birthweight Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers - Murli Manohar Murari (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Endowments and Multidimensional Poverty: The Indian Perspective
08:00 CET BREAK
08:30 – 10:30 CET CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Kompal Sinha (University of Sydney & JOPE Editor)
– New Delhi, India (IST) 01:00 pm – 03:00 pm
– Sydney, Australia (AEDT) 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
– Sweden (CET): 8:30 am – 10:30 am
- Damini Singh (Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam)
Dirty Air and the Nutrition Transition: Evidence from Indian Women - 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 - Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University) & Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University)
Surviving the Daily Heat: Climate Change and Labor Productivity - Moumita Das (Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States) & Anirban Sanyal (Reserve Bank of India)
Adaptation in Motion: Temporary Migration under Heat Stress
10:30 CET BREAK
11:00 – 13:00 CET WELLBEING AND WELFARE
Chair: Gregory Ponthiere (École Normale Supérieure de Rennes & JOPE Editor)
– United Kingdom (GMT) 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
– Singapore (SGT) 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- Kee Hyun Park (Nanyang Technological University) & Dursun Peksen (University of Memphis)
Economic Sanctions and Human Welfare in Target Countries - Yebetchou Rostand Arland (University of Eastern Piedmont) & Marco Tedeschi (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Good Institutions, Better Lives? Evidence from Italian Local Governments - Laeticia Pemba (University of Strathclyde) *Ox
Dual catalysts for change: The joint impact of child labour and child marriage bans on females’ socio-economic welfare - 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
13:00 CET BREAK
14:00 – 16:00 FERTILITY
Chair: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & JOPE Associate Editor)
***> 14:00 – 15:00: GLO Monthly Seminar.
Julie Hotchkiss (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
What’s Behind Declining Birth Rates in the U.S.?
***> 15:00 – 16:00: Fertility issues
- Salem Abo-Zaid (University of Maryland-Baltimore County)
Fertility Decline and Perceived Societal Risk in the United States
- Marianna Cannatà (Roma Tre University) & Francesco Salustri (Roma Tre University & UCL & GLO)
Family Policy Spending, Female Employment, and Fertility in Europe
16:00 CET BREAK
16:30 – 18:30 CET MIGRATION I
Chair: Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, JOPE Editor)
- 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 - Fernando Borraz (Universidad de la República) & Susan Pozo (Western Michigan University)
Uncertainty and Remittances: Evidence from Refugees and Economic Migrants - Alex Tuft (The University of Wyoming) & Emmanuel Yimfor (Columbia University)
Visa Access and the Geography of Skilled Work: Evidence from the H-1B Lottery - Vishavdeep Sharma (The Ohio State University)
Cross-Border Common Ownership and the Gains from Trade in Employment
18:30 CET BREAK
19:00 – 21:00 CET MIGRATION II
Chair: Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll (Collegio Carlo Alberto & University of Turin & JOPE Editor)
- 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? - Debora Di Gioacchino (Università di Roma La Sapienza) & Alina Verashchagina (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Media Exposure, Public Attitudes Toward Immigration, and Policy Support - Despina Gavresi (University of Macedonia)
Moving Europe? The Long-Term Effects of Migration on Attitudes toward the European Institutions - OPTIONAL Syed Ather Akbari (Saint Mary’s University) *Ox
From Immigration Expansion to Regionalization: Canada’s Changing Immigration Policy in an International Context
21:00 CET BREAK
21:30 – 23:30 CET LABOR ISSUES
Chair: Emma Aguila (University of Southern California & JOPE Associate Editor)
– Washington D.C. (EST) 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
- Ahmet Akin (Oglethorpe University)
Generative AI, Career Optimism, and Economic Behavior among U.S. Workers - Filippo Curti (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Bryson Alexander (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) & David Aldama-Navarrete ((Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Cheaper to Run, Harder to Earn: Working From Home and Bank Efficiency - Yanli Chen (Pepperdine University)
Federal Contracting as a Labor-Market Reintegration Pathway for Service-Disabled Women Veterans - Emma Aguila (University of Southern California & JOPE Associate Editor) & Raquel Fonseca (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Informality, Gig Work, and Retirement
December 4, 2026
01:00 – 03:00 CET — to be confirmed
03:00 CET BREAK
03:30 – 05:30 CET HOUSEHOLD
Chair: NN
– New Delhi, India (IST): 8:00 am – 10:00 am
- Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management-Indore) & Bipasha Maity (Ashoka University)
Environmental Shocks and Within-Household Inequality: Evidence from India - Tista Mukherjee (IISER Bhopal)
From Backlash to Benefit: Intergenerational Effects of India’s Anti-Dowry Law on Girls’ Education - Anupam Shikha (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research), Digvijay Negi (Ashoka University) & Biswajit Patra (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) *O?x
Health Shocks and Intra-household Reallocation of Nutrition: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh - Subarna Banerjee (Inclusion Economics India Center) & Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University) *O?x
Saving Grace: Passing Thresholds and Educational Progression - OPTIONAL Amanda Guimbeau (University of Sherbrooke)
How Institutions Shape the Incidence of Demographic Shocks: Evidence From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial India
Sherbrooke, Canada (EST): 9:30 pm – 11:30 pm (Thursday, Dec 3)
05:30 CET BREAK
06:00 – 08:00 CET VirtYS Alumni Session
Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent)
08:00 CET BREAK
08:30 – 10:30 CET AI & CAREER
Chair: Gökhan Karabulut (Istanbul University)
– Seoul, South Korea 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
– Istanbul, Turkey (TRT) 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
- 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 - Christian Aleman (NYU Abu Dhabi)
The AI Economy: Adoption, Human Validation, and Labor Demand - Antonio), Gouranga Das (Hanyang University, South Korea), Shrimoyee Ganguly (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra) & Sugata Marjit (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) *Ox
AI-driven Technological Progress, Finite Change and Wages - Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & GLO), Gökhan Karabulut (Istanbul University), Zeynep Keklik (Istanbul Medipol University) & Kıvanç Altıntaş (Necmettin Erbakan University)
Age, Education, and Occupational Gradients in Artificial Intelligence Anxiety
12:30 CET BREAK
11:00 – 13:00 CET UNU-MERIT
13:00 CET BREAK
14:00 – 16:00 GENDER II
GENDER II 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET
– University of Regina, Canada (CST): 7:00 am – 9:00 am
– Italy (CET): 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
– New York, USA (EST): 8:00 am – 10:00 am
- Damilola Afolabi (University of Regina) & Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & UNU-MERIT)
Partisan Demographics - Giada Garbini (University of Turin – Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Abortion Access and the Gender Gap in Voting - 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 - 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
16:00 CET BREAK
16:30 – 18:30 CET EDUCATION II
Chair: Giovanni Gallo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
– Italy & Sweden (CET): 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
– Athens, Greece (EET): 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
- 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 - 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 - Vincenzo Lardo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
The Effect of Age at Graduation on Family Formation: Evidence from the Bologna Process - 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
18:30 CET BREAK
19:00 – 21:00 CET DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Hai-Anh H. Dang (Worldbank)
– Washington D.C. (EST), USA 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Amanda Guimbeau (University of Sherbrooke)
How Institutions Shape the Incidence of Demographic Shocks: Evidence From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial India - Olga Shemyakina (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Lin Yang *Ox
Armed Conflict and Civilian Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Mathieu Lefebvre (University of Strasbourg), Harun Onder (Texas A&M), Pierre Pestieau (Université of Liège), Gregory Ponthière (ENS Rennes) & Emi Suzuki (World Bank)
The Invisible Continent. Counting the Missing Poor in Developing Countries - Hai-Anh H. Dang (Worldbank)
Poverty Mobility in Developing Countries - Hai-Anh Dang (World Bank)
Do Middle-Income Traps Exist? New Evidence from Global Subnational Analysis
21:00 CET BREAK
21:30 – 23:30 CET — to be confirmed