2023: Queen’s University

Session 1: Wealth and Income (Chair: Maria Gallego)

Rory McGee (Western), “The Life Cycle Dynamics of Wealth Mobility” (with R. Audoly, S. Ocampo, G. Paz-Pardo)
• Discussant: David Price (Toronto)
Arezou Zaresani (Sydney), “Cost of Income Sheltering Behaviours and Elasticity of Taxable
Income for High Income Individuals” (with M. Olivo-Villabrille, R. Breunig, S. Johnson)
• Discussant: Nicolas Marceau (UQAM)

Break (coffee)

Session 2: Political Competition (Chair: Jean Guillaume Forand)

Dan Bernhardt (Illinois and Warwick), “Political Competition and Strategic Voting in
Multi-Candidate Elections” (with S. Krasa, F. Squintani)
• Discussant: Justin Fox (Washington St Louis)
Maria Titova (Vanderbilt), “Targeted Advertising in Elections”
• Discussant: Johanna Goertz (Guelph)

Lunch

Session 3: Charity and Crime (Chair: Maria Gallego)

Steeve Mongrain (SFU), “Crime and Social Mobility” (with N. Marceau)
• Discussant: Phil Curry (Waterloo)
Ross Hickey (UBC-Okanagan) “Random Search and Matching for Impure Donors”
• Discussant: Rose Anne Devlin (Ottawa)

Break (coffee)

Session 4: Education and Nutrition (Chair: Jean Guillaume Forand)

Kelly Foley (Saskatchewan), “Short- and Long-Run Effects of High Stakes Tests”
(with M. Jones)
• Discussant: Sitian Liu (Queen’s)
Laëtitia Renée (Montreal), “The Long-Term Effects of Career Guidance in High School:
Evidence from a Randomized Experiment”
• Discussant: Moshi Alam (Queen’s)
Nicholas Li (Toronto Metropolitan), “Pass-Through of Subsidies to Prices under Limited
Competition: Evidence from Canada’s Nutrition North Program” (with T. Galloway)
• Discussant: Meiping (Aggie) Sun (Fordham)

Break (coffee and cookies)

John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (JDI)

Distinguished Lecture: Matias Iaryczower, Princeton
“Innovation Adoption by Committee: The Case of the FDA” (with N. Canen)
Chair: Christopher Cotton (Queen’s)

Drinks and Dinner (19h30)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (in the foyer)
Queen’s University, 36 University Avenue

Continental Breakfast

Session 5: Money and Politics (Chair: Jean Guillaume Forand)

Gergely Ujhelyi (Houston), “All the President’s Money: Market Concentration, Oligarchs and
Sanctions in Hybrid Regimes” (with P. Kondor)
• Discussant: Arianna Degan (UQAM)
Lisa Tarquinio (Western), “Segregation and the March Right: Extreme Right Politics in
England and Wales” (with S. Villar Vallenas)
• Discussant: Kurt Annen (Guelph)

Break (coffee)

Session 6: Welfare-to-Work and Immigration (Chair: Maria Gallego)

Neil Cholli (Cornell), “Does “Welfare-to-Work” Work? Evaluating Long-Run Effects Across a
Generation of Cohorts”
• Discussant: Adam Lavecchia (McMaster)
Nicholas Lawson (UQAM), “Discrimination and the Fiscal Benefits of Immigration”
• Discussant: Mons Chan (Queen’s)

Lunch

Invited Plenary Lecture: Tatiana Homonoff, NYU

“Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials”
Chair: Adam Lavecchia

Break (coffee)

Session 7: Free Speech and Candidate Selection (Chair: Maria Gallego)

Juan Morales (Laurier), “Can Online Backlash Stifle Free Speech?” (with M. Samahita)
• Discussant: Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal)
Arvind Magesan (Calgary), “Candidate Selection by Parties: Crime and Politics in India”
(with A. Szabó, G. Ujhelyi)
• Discussant: Brad Hackinen (Western)