The 6th Stockholm Uppsala Education Economics Workshop
General information
The sixth Stockholm Uppsala Education Economics Workshop will be hosted by the Stockholm School of Economics. The workshop will be held on Friday, April 26 in room A342 and includes a joint lunch and a workshop dinner.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Matthew Wiswall (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse.
Call for papers and registration
Please submit your paper no later than March 1, 2024 by [following this link]
If you want to attend the workshop, please register here
Workshop program
You can download a pdf version here
10:00 Welcome
10:05 Louis-Pierre Lepage (SOFI): Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap
10:35 Kieran Larkin (IIES, Stockholm University): The Rise of Women and the Decline of Education
11:05 Tianze Liu (Uppsala University): How IT Specialized College Majors Pay Off: Evidence from the IT Industry Shocks
open lunch (lunch boxes provided)
12:30 Alessandro Toppeta (SOFI): Skill Formation with Siblings
13:00 Abhijeet Singh (SSE): The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
short break (15 min.)
13:45-14:45: Keynote by Matthew Wiswall (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Demand-Side Child Care Subsidies When Caregiver Supply Matters: An Equilibrium Analysis
fika break (30 min.)
15:15 Jaakko Meriläinen (SSE): Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom
15:45 Adam Altmejd (SOFI): The Effect of University Fields of Study on Civic Behaviors
16:15 Meng Meng (SOFI): ”You are the elite now”: Admission Effects of an Excellence Reform in the Chinese Higher Education System
short break (15 min.)
17:00 Axel Norgren (The Institute for Analytical Sociology / SSE): Evolution in Educational markets– A study of the schools that exit a competitive school market
17:30 Jose Montalban (SOFI): How do teachers respond to smaller classes? Evidence and Implications for Student Learning
19:00 Welcome drinks at Restaurant TAK (floor 14)
20:00 Workshop dinner
Workshop lunch and dinner
All speakers and registered participants are invited to join for lunch and dinner. Vegan lunch boxes will be provided. Dinner will take place at Restaurant TAK (Brunkebergstorg 2-4, 111 51 Stockholm). Please note that all drinks and meals are free of charge to registered participants.
Contact and further information
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please send an email to Jan Sauermann.