oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy 2012 Dynamics of Migration

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1 oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy 2012 Dynamics of Migration August, 2012, John Knox Center, Geneva (Switzerland) Program Content Program Pages 2-6 Feedback Process Page 7 Young Scholars 2012 Page 8 Faculty 2012 Page 9 Location and travel tips Page 10 oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

2 Sunday, 19 August, 2012 Arrival at John Knox Center, Geneva (see page 11 for travel details) 7:00 pm Welcome Dinner (John Knox Center) Monday, 20 August, 2012 Opening Session 07:00 09:00 Breakfast 09:00-10:00 Welcome and introduction to the participants and programme of the oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy 2012 Shailee Pradhan, oikos foundation 10:00-11:00 Faculty Perspectives: Addressing the gaps in migration research 11 :00-11 :30 Coffee break Katrina Burgess, Tufts University, USA; Deepti Goel, Delhi School of Economics, India; and Marcelo Olarreaga, University of Geneva, Switzerland A: Migration and Environment 11:30-12:30 Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration Ingrid Dallmann, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France C1*: Metka Hercog C2: Andreas Steinmayr 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Does climate change foster emigration from less developed countries? Evidence from bilateral data Giulia Bettin, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy C1: Moritz Bonn C2: Maroula Khraiche B: Migration and Trade 15:00-16:00 Trade Liberalisation and Migration: NAFTA and the Case of Mexico-US Edo Mahendra, University of Oxford, UK C1: Cedric Gorinas C2: Lorena Castro 17:00 Walking tour and dinner in Old Town, Geneva * Participant to provide feedback (for details on the feedback process please refer to page 7). oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

3 Tuesday, 21 August, :00 09:00 Breakfast C: Human Capital and Health 09:00-10:00 International migration and human capital: The Effects on Mexican youths Jaime Lara, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico C1: Lorena Castro C2: Mary Kyei 10:00-11:00 School and neighborhood: Residential location choice of immigrants in the Los Angeles metropolitan area 11:00-11:30 Coffee break Crystal Yi Zhan, University of California - San Diego, USA C1: Cedric Gorinas C2: Bilisuma Dito 11:30-12:30 Health disparity between immigrant and non-immigrant Hispanic population in rural communities of West Texas 12:30-14:00 Lunch break Janani Thapa, Texas Tech University, USA C1: Moritz Bonn C2: Edo Mahendra 14:00-15:00 Brain gain with limited commitment Maroula Khraiche, Colorado College, USA C1: Andreas Steinmayr C2: Ehsan Vallizadeh 15:30-17:00 Roundtable: Bridging the gap between academia and policy Faculty and participants 17:00 Boat trip (if the weather is nice) and dinner oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

4 Wednesday, 22 August, :00 09:00 Breakfast D: Culture and Attitudes 09:00-10:00 How do major sociopolitical events shape attitudes about assimilation among the Mexican-origin population in the US? Evidence from the 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches Lorena Castro, Stanford University, USA C1: Jaime Lara C2: Crystal Yi Zhan 10:00-11:00 Costs and Benefits of Immigration and Multicultural Interaction 11:00-11:30 Coffee break Moritz Bonn, University of Siegen, Germany C1: Mary Kyei C2: Metka Hercog 11:30-12:30 Reinvestigating the determinants of bilateral migration flows: The role of natives attitudes toward immigrants Cedric Gorinas, Aarhus University, Denmark 12:30-14:00 Lunch break C1: Giulia Bettin C2: Bilisuma Dito E: Labor Markets and Welfare Effects 14:00-15:00 The impact of medium-skilled immigration: A two-sector approach Ehsan Vallizadeh, Maastricht University, Netherlands C1: Edo Mahendra C2: Ingrid Dallmann 19:00 Dinner at John Knox Center (optional) / Free evening oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

5 Thursday, 23 August, :00 09:00 Breakfast F: Remaining and Returning 09:00-10:00 Experience in the host countries and return plans Metka Hercog, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland C1: Crystal Yi Zhan C2: Jaime Lara 10:00-11:00 Where to live and How to survive : Return and reintegration of Ghanaian migrants 11:00-11:30 Coffee break Mary Boatemaa Osei Kyei, University of Ghana, Ghana C1: Giulia Bettin C2: Janani Thapa 11:30-12:30 A principal stratification framework for estimating the effects of migration on remaining household members Andreas Steinmayr, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 12:30-14:00 Lunch C1: Maroula Khraiche C2: Ehsan Vallizadeh 14:00-15:00 The Effects of Transnational Child Raising Arrangements on the Wellbeing of Ghanaian Migrant Parents in The Netherlands Bilisuma Dito, Maastricht University, Netherlands C1: Ingrid Dallmann C2: Janani Thapa 15:00-16:00 Final Feedback Session Hand-in feedback forms 19:00 Fondue night oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

6 Friday, 24 August, :00 09:00 Breakfast and check-out (leave luggage in the lobby) 9:30-12:30 Visit the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 12:30-13:30 Lunch at IOM 14:00 Depart John Knox Center oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

7 Feedback process Each participant will have 20 minutes to present the essence of his/her research paper (research questions, methodology, preliminary results). Your colleagues have all had an opportunity to read your paper prior to the academy. You will receive feedback from two peers and the faculty on relevant issues concerning the contents and methods of your research, followed by open discussion. Presentation of your research paper Feedback from two PhD students /Post Docs (max. 5 min each) Feedback from the three faculty members (max. 5 min each) Open group discussion Duration 20 min 10 min 15 min 15 min Please review the programme and participants list to find the research papers you are invited to comment on. Feedback content We encourage each participant to give structured feedback and constructive comments on the presented papers. You might consider some of the following questions: Does the paper/presentation include clear research questions? What methodologies, literature streams etc. are employed to answer the research question(s)? Is the research well defined and the chosen methodology appropriate? What is the potential target audience? Please also consider the academic and professional background of the presenter. As a presenter you may state in the beginning of your presentation the motivation for the paper and elaborate shortly on the kind of feedback you expect from both peers and faculty. Opportunity for bilateral talks and feedback by the faculty You will share a full week with the academy faculty and participants. We encourage you to take this opportunity to engage in dialogue and seek feedback from the faculty and peers on your research, academic career opportunities and potential collaborations. Internet accessibility Broadband wireless Internet access is freely available at the location. We thank you for supporting our closed laptop policy during sessions. Audio / visual requirements An LCD-projector, notebook computer and overhead projector will all be available for use during presentations. Please bring your presentation files on a USB stick. oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

8 Young scholars 2012 Name University 1. Giulia Bettin Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 2. Moritz Bonn University of Siegen, Germany 3. Lorena Castro Stanford University, USA 4. Ingrid Dallmann Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France 5. Bilisuma Dito Maastricht University, Netherlands 6. Cedric Gorinas Aarhus University, Denmark 7. Metka Hercog EPFL, Switzerland 8. Maroula Khraiche Colorado College, USA 9. Mary Boatemaa Osei Kyei University of Ghana, Ghana 10. Jaime Lara El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico 11. Edo Mahendra University of Oxford, UK 12. Andreas Steinmayr University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 13. Janani Thapa Texas Tech University, USA 14. Ehsan Vallizadeh Maastricht University, Netherlands 15. Crystal Yi Zhan University of California, San Diego, USA oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

9 Faculty Katrina Burgess Katrina Burgess is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She has also taught at Syracuse University, Brown University, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). Along with numerous book chapters and articles on labor politics, market reform, migrant remittances, and diaspora politics, she is author of Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy and co-editor with Abraham F. Lowenthal of The California-Mexico Connection. She holds an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California (USC) and a PhD in politics at Princeton University. She also served as Assistant Director of the U.S.-Mexico Project at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, DC and Associate Director of the California-Mexico Project at USC in Los Angeles. Her current project addresses the impact of migration on politics in new democracies in the developing world, with particular attention to the role of remittances and migrant organizations on political participation and accountability in migrant-sending communities. Deepti Goel Deepti Goel is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics and also a Research Fellow at IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor. Her fields of interest are Applied Econometrics and Labor Economics. Before joining the Delhi School, she was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai. She completed her PhD in Economics from Boston University. In her thesis she examines whether and how strong social ties affect immigrants in the labor market. She holds an M.A. also from the Delhi School of Economics. Her current research spans a broad set of empirical projects. These include a study of Delhi Metro on air pollution, effect of loan waiver for farmers on their consumption expenditure, impact of a conditional cash transfer scheme on mother's and child's health and counterfactual wage decomposition for India. Marcelo Olarreaga Marcelo Olarreaga is Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. Before joining the University of Geneva he worked as an economist in the Research Department of the World Bank, as well the Economics Research Division of the World Trade Organization. He has also been an invited professor at CERDI (France), the Graduate Institute (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), Institute CLAEH (Uruguay), SciencePo-Paris (France), Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He holds an MA from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Geneva. He is currently doing research on the political economy of trade policy and trade agreements, barriers to developing countries exports and distributional and poverty impacts of trade reforms. oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

10 Location and travel tips The oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy 2010 will take place at the John Knox Center ( We strongly recommend you arrive on Sunday afternoon. The accommodation will be single rooms. IMPORTANT: The entrance code for getting in is 6252A. You will need to enter this code to get in, so please note this down. If you are not arriving on August 19 or if you have special dietary requirements, please let me know before August 10. From the airport Taxi: about 10 minutes ride. The cost is around CHF 25. Bus: The cost of the bus ticket about CHF 3. o o Bus no. 28 direction 'JARDIN BOTANIQUE', about 11 minutes ride: Get off at the bus stop VY-DES-CHAMPS, cross the street and go up the foot path CHEMIN DE LA RIOLE at the church turn right on CHEMIN DES CRETS DE PREGNY, follow this road to the Center. About 10 min walk from the bus stop. Bus no. 5 direction 'HOPITAL' bus stop GRAND-SACONNEX PLACE go through the parking lot, then up CHEMIN AUGUSTE VILBERT - go up the hill to the stop sign, cross the road then follow the sign CENTRE JOHN KNOX About 15 min walk from the bus stop. From the train station Taxi: about 10 minutes ride. The cost is around CHF 20 + luggage. Bus: The cost of the bus ticket about CHF 3. o o o Bus F (about 10 minutes ride) direction FERNEY-MAIRIE/GEX-ZAC, bus stop VY-DES- CHAMPS. Go up the foot path CHEMIN DE LA RIOLE at the church turn right on CHE- MIN DES CRETS DE PREGNY follow this road to the Center. About 10 min walk from the bus stop. Bus n 8 (week days until 23h30) (about 15 minutes ride) direction OMS / WHO. Get off at WHO, back track to the end of the parking, go up the foot path CHEMIN DE LA RIOLE at the church turn right on CHEMIN DES CRETS DE PREGNY follow this road to the Center. About 10 min walk from the bus stop. Bus n 5 (about 20 minutes ride) direction AIRPORT bus stop GRAND-SACONNEX PLACE go through the parking lot, then up CHEMIN AUGUSTE VILBERT - go up the hill to the stop sign, cross the road then follow the signs CENTRE JOHN KNOX About 15 min walk from the bus stop. oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11

11 What to bring Umbrella, jacket (it can get quite chilly even during summer), passport, swiss francs (not Euros) Questions? If there are any questions, you can contact me at: In case of emergency, you can call me at: +41 (0) We look forward to welcoming you. oikos Young Scholars Economics Academy Program faculty and participants /11