Miren Lafourcade co-organized, with Laurent Gobillon, the Regional and Urban Economics Seminar (RUES) on the “Spatial Determinants of Education and Abilities“.
The workshop was held at the Paris School of Economics, on the 26th of June 2019.
Conference Program:
13:30 Lecture 1: Rosa Sanchis-Guarner (Imperial College Business School London)
Title: “ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses”, with Benjamin Faber (University of California Berkeley) and Felix Weinhardt (DIW Berlin)
Discussant: Clément Malgouyres (IPP and PSE)
14:30 Lecture 2: Benoît Schmutz (Ecole Polytechnique)
Title: “Spatial Determinants of Ability Outside the Labor Market”, with José De Sousa (Université Paris Sud-Saclay)
Discussant: Clément Bosquet (Université Cergy-Pontoise)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Lecture 3: Manon Garrouste (Université Lille 1)
Title: “Urban and Education Place-based Policies: Effect on Academic Achievement”, with Fanny Alivon (Université de La Réunion) and Rachel Guillain (Université de Bourgogne)
Discussant: Gabrielle Fack (Université Paris-Dauphine)