IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

+++ presentations: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 15 minutes +++

Tuesday, January 25:

09:00				Transfer to Conference Venue
09:30	-	10:00		Registration
10:00	-	10:15		Welcome Address
10:15	-	11:00		Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research and IZA), Johannes Metzler (University of Munich)
				"The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:15		Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA and IAE-CSIC)
				"Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence From a Randomized Trial in the United States"
12:15	-	13:00		Pedro S. Martins (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA)
				"Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch at Restaurant Kleine Waldau
14:30	-	15:15		Christian Belzil (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and IZA), Mathias Andre (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Francois Poinas (Toulouse School of Economics), Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
				"Separating the Effects of Risk Attitudes, Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Trust and Financial Aid in Schooling Decisions"
15:15				Coffee Break
15:16				Poster Session A:
				Miriam Gensowski (University of Chicago and IZA), James J. Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA), Peter Savelyev (University of Chicago)
				"The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men"
				Sebastian Goerg (Florida State University), Sebastian Kube (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Goals (th)at Work"
				Bart H.H. Golsteyn (Maastricht University and IZA), Lex Borghans (Maastricht University and IZA), James J. Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA), John Eric Humphries (University of Chicago)
				"IQ, Achievement and Personality"
				David Huffman (Swarthmore College and IZA), Michael Bognanno (Temple University and IZA)
				"Temporary High-Powered Incentives and Motivation: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment"
				Zahra Siddique (University of Reading and IZA), Melanie Khamis (IZA), Nishith Prakash (Cornell University and IZA)
				"Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India"
				Arne Uhlendorff (University of Mannheim and IZA), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Deborah Cobb-Clark (University of Melbourne and IZA)
				"Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies"
				Florian Zimmermann (University of Bonn and IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Preferences for Consistency"
17:15	-	18:00		Janet Currie (Princeton University and IZA), Lucas Davis (University of California at Berkeley), Reed Walker (Columbia University)
				"Toxic Releases and Health at Birth: Evidence from Plant Closures"

Wednesday, January 26:

09:15				Transfer to Conference Venue
10:00	-	10:45		Solomon Polachek (Binghamton University, New York and IZA), Rewat Thamma-Apiroam (Kasetsart University, Thailand), Tirthatanmoy Das (Binghamton University, New York)
				"Do Economists and Psychologists Measure Ability In The Same Way? Comparing Individual-Specific Ability Measures Obtained From a Nonlinear Lifecycle Earnings Model to Psychology-Based Cognitive Test Scores"
10:45	-	11:15		Coffee Break
11:15	-	12:00		Anders Björklund (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA), Jérôme Adda (European University Institute and IZA), Helena Holmlund (SOFI, Stockholm University)
				"The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths"
12:00	-	12:45		Matthias Wibral (University of Bonn and IZA), Thomas Dohmen (ROA, University of Maastricht and IZA), Bernd Weber (University of Bonn), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Testosterone administration decreases lying when lies threaten social status"
12:45	-	14:15		Lunch at Restaurant Kleine Waldau
14:15	-	15:00		Amanda Agan (University of Chicago)
				"Non-Cognitive Skills and Crime"
15:00				Coffee Break
15:00				Poster Session B:
				Johannes Abeler (University of Oxford and IZA), Anke Becker (University of Bonn), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Preferences for Truth-telling"
				Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam)
				"Handedness Predicts Social Preferences: Evidence Connecting the Lab to the Field"
				Didier Fouarge (ROA, Maastricht University), Ben Kriechel (ROA, Maastricht University and IZA), Thomas Dohmen (ROA, Maastricht University and IZA)
				"Occupational sorting of school leavers: The role of economic preferences"
				Heike Hennig-Schmidt (University of Bonn), Gari Walkowitz (University of Cologne)
				"Cognitive Skills in Ultimatum Bargaining: Reasoning about Others; Experimental Evidence from Verbal and Behavioral Data"
				Simon Jäger (Harvard University and IZA), Thomas Dohmen (ROA, Maastricht University and IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), David Huffman (Swarthmore College and IZA), Uwe Sunde (University of St. Gallen and IZA)
				"The Effect of Cognitive Skills on Unemployment Duration"
				Fabian Kosse (University of Bonn and IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Preference formation in early childhood"
				Friedhelm Pfeiffer (ZEW Mannheim and IZA), Dorothea Blomeyer (Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim), Manfred Laucht (Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim), Karsten Reuß (ZEW Mannheim)
				"Mother-child interaction in infancy, home environment and the development of early cognitive and noncognitive skills"
				Ulf Rinne (IZA), Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA), Annabelle Krause (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and University of Bonn)
				"Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?"
16:59				Keynote Lecture:
17:00	-	18:00		James J. Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA), Mathilde Almlund (University of Chicago), Angela Lee Duckworth (University of Pennsylvania), Tim Kautz (University of Chicago)
				"Personality Psychology and Economics"
19:00				Dinner at Restaurant Kleine Waldau

Thursday, January 27:

09:15				Transfer to Conference Venue
10:00	-	10:45		Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
				"Understanding the Size and Profitability of Firms: The Role of a Biological Factor"
10:45	-	11:30		Camelia M. Kuhnen (Northwestern University), Brian Knutson (Stanford University), Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin (Stanford University)
				"Different Affective Learning Systems Contribute to the Accumulation of Assets and Debt"
11:30	-	12:00		Coffee Break
12:00	-	12:45		Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota), Jon Anderson (University of Minnesota Morris), Stephen Burks (University of Minnesota Morris), Colin DeYoung (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
				"Personal Theory, Decision Theory, and Economic Behavior"
12:45				Lunch and Departure