CEE 2017 Annual Conference

18 December 2017, Monday

Natuk Birkan Building, Ibrahim Bodur Auditorium

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

09:30 - Registration

09:50 - Welcome Note
Refik Erzan, Director (CEE, Boğaziçi University)

10:00 - 11:30 - Session 1:

Chair: İnsan Tunalı (Koç University)

• Orhan Torul, Boğaziçi University (with Oğuz Öztunalı, Istanbul Bilgi University)

  “Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Europe”

• Semih Tümen, CBRT (with Ahmet Öztürk, Ministry of Development)

  “Estimating the Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Student Protests in 1970s Turkey”

11:30-12:00 - Coffee Break

12:00- 13:30 - Session 2: 

Chair: Nezih Güner (Center for Monetary and Financial Studies, CEMFI)

• Ceyhun Elgin, Boğaziçi University (with Orhan Erem Ateşağaoğlu, Istanbul Bilgi University; Tuğçe Türk, Boğaziçi University)

  “Access to the Technology Frontier: The Role of Informality”

• Mehmet Ali Soytaş, Özyeğin University (with George-Levi Gayle, University of Pittsburg; Limor Golan, University of Wisconsin)

  “What is the Source of Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings?”

13:30-15:00 - Lunch, Kennedy Lounge

15:00- 16:30 - Session 3:

Chair: Murat G. Kırdar (Boğaziçi University)

• Robert Sauer, Royal Hollaway University of London (with Dan Anderberg, Royal Hollaway University of London; Neomi Mantovan, Bangor University)

  “The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match”

• Joseph-Simon Gorlach, Bocconi University (with Jerome Adda, Bocconi University: Christian Dustmann, University College London) 

  “The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation”

16:30-17:00 - Coffee Break

17:00- 18:30 - Session 4:

Chair: Robert Sauer (Royal Hollaway University of London)

• İnsan Tunalı, Koç University (with Mustafa Ulus, Galatasaray University)

  “Incentives and Exit Behavior from the Unemployment Insurance System in Turkey”

• Murat G. Kırdar, Boğaziçi University (with Ege Aksu, Boğaziçi University; Refik Erzan, Boğaziçi University)

  “Labor Market Effects of Syrian Immigrants in Turkey”

18:30-19:00 - Coffee Break

19:00-20:00 - Key Note Lecture

• Nezih Güner, Center for Monetary and Financial Studies, CEMFI (with Remzi Kaygusuz, Sabanci University; Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University)

  “Rethinking the Welfare State”

20:00-22:00 - Cocktail Prolongé – Natuk Birkan Building, 2. Floor