Microdata Methods and Practice

supported by the EU 6th Research Framework and Marie Curie Research Training Actions

Meetings

The Network plans seven conferences that will allow trainees to present their work and interact with senior researchers in formulating further research plans. The meetings also allow the scientific committee to monitor the progress of the various teams in meeting their goals and the quality of their interaction in the training programme and in promoting the main themes of the network. Meetings will also be used in order to involve researchers from outside the Network in the workings of the group, bringing in fresh ideas and helping to recruit young researchers.

First meeting of the Microdata RTN

The first meeting of the Microdata RTN will be held in Copenhagen Thursday December 1 - December 3.

Programme:

December 1 - December 2 (morning)

Master Class: Duration Models
Gerard van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam

This Master Class is primarily for the trainees of the RTN (post-docs and PhD students). Other PhD students and researchers may attend but there is a maximum of 20 participants with priority given to RTN trainees.

Download class summary and references

December 2 (afternoon) - December 3

Presentations by post-docs, junior and senior researchers of the RTN. There will also be a session for current PhD students to give a brief description of their proposed research. Each country coordinator should nominate one or two papers to be presented. Please send an abstract of each prospective paper via the country coordinator to Martin Browning.

CAM will be responsible for all local arrangements and will organise lunches and dinner on the Thursday evening for the Master Class participants and a conference dinner on the Friday evening.

To book a place at the Master Class and/or conference please send an email to Susanne Knudsen, clearly stating your RTN status.

CAM will also book the hotels. Please notify Susanne Knudsen about your hotel requirements.

Friday 2 December 2005

14.20 - 15.00	Frank Windmeijer	GMM with many weak moment conditions
15.00 - 15.40	Stéphane Bonhomme	Using higher-order moments to estimate linear independent factor models
15.40 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 16.40	Marta Lopez	Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
16.40 - 17.20	Ulrich Sauder	Do grandparents matter for child quality? New evidence from three generation data
17.20	PhD Presentations
19.00	Dinner

Saturday 3 December 2005

10.00 - 10.40	Patrick Hesselius	Mandatory employer provided benefits or public provided benefits - does it affect individual claiming behavior?
10.40 - 11.20	Rute Mendes	An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
11.20 - 12.00	Martin Browning	Spending time and money within the household
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch and business meeting
13.00 - 13.40	Nikolay Angelov	A discrete-response approach to firm acquisitions
		Modeling firm mergers as a roommate problem
13.40 - 14.20	Melanie Lührmann	Population aging and the demand for goods and services
14.20 - 15.00	David Margolis	Mergers, acquisitions and employment