Program

LOCATION UPDATE: The workshop will finally be held in room 0.04 of the North Research Building (Batiment Nord de Recherche).

The Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration is a joint initiative of CERDI, PSE, LISER, the University of Luxembourg, Universidad Carlos III, CEPII, and the IC Migrations.

It offers Ph.D. students and early-stage researchers (post-docs and assistant professors with less than 3 years of experience) an opportunity to share their work in a constructive environment, as well as to exchange the results of recent research in different fields of migration economics. 

This workshop follows the spirit of the online webinar series on the economics of migration, an initiative that was launched in April 2020 to provide a platform to economists working on migration to present their work virtually.

The event is scheduled to be held on June 15-16, 2023, in Paris.

The keynote speakers for the event are:

Cátia Batista (NOVA SBE)

Cátia Batista is Associate Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, where she is also Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Catia has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education and policy evaluation. Her work, mainly randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments, took place in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University. She is currently a Research Fellow at the international research centers CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL-Europe (Paris, France). Previously, Catia worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University, and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.

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Simone Bertoli (CERDI)

Simone Bertoli is Professor of Economics at CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne, since September 2016, and he is currently a junior member of the Insitut Universitaire de France; he had joined the University of Auvergne as an assistant professor with a joint chair with the CNRS in September 2011 after working at the IAB and EUI. He received his Ph. D. in Development Economics from the University of Florence in 2007. His main research interests include international migration, economic development, and labor economics. His current research activities focus on the theoretical and empirical study of the determinants of international migration and on the economic effects produced by migration on origin countries. He is currently a Research Fellow at IZA, EDN, and the ICM.

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Frédéric Docquier (LISER) 

Frédéric Docquier has been acting as a Research Program Leader (on Crossing Borders) at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) since 2019. He is also Affiliate Professor at the University of Luxembourg where he is coordinating the ACROSS doctoral training unit. Previously, he was Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain and Research Associate of the FNRS (2005-19), Associate Professor at the University of Lille (1997-2005), and Invited Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015-18), Université Clermont-Auvergne (2013-18) and Université de Nantes (2009-15), among others. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitéd'Aix-Marseille. His research interests are in economics of migration, quantitative development theory, and economic growth. He acted as a ST Consultant for the World Bank, and as an external expert for the United Nations (UNESCO and High-Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda) and Agence Française de Développement. 

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Etienne Bacher (LISER), Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg), Simone Bertoli (CERDI), Maria Alexandra Castellanos (UC3M), Luka Delgado-Prieto (UC3M), Frédéric Docquier (LISER), Anthony Edo (CEPII), Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (UC3M), Christina Gathmann (LISER), Elsa Gautrain (CERDI), María Gertrudis Feranández (UC3M), Yajna Govind (CBS), Giuseppe Grasso (LISER), Joël Machado (LISER), Hillel Rapoport (PSE), Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (University of Exeter), Sara Signorelli (University of Amsterdam), Felix Stips (LISER), and Jérôme Valette (CEPII).