International Workshop on: “Discrimination, Social Inclusion and Development”, 3 – 4 April 2025, University of Milano Bicocca

9:00 – 9:20 Registration & Welcoming

9:20 – 10:00 Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz): “Building Capacity for Unity in Diversity: A Large-Scale Intervention among Youth in India” (with May Farid, Prashant Loyalka, Dinsha Mistree)

10:00 – 10:40 Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School and Bocconi University): “How Far can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions” (with Enrico Miglino and Michela M. Tincani)

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 11:50 Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University): “Double redistribution standards” (with Sueda Evirgen)

11:50 – 12:50 Keynote: Salma Mousa (UCLA): “Prejudice Reduction: When and How It Matters for Development (and When it Doesn’t)”

12:50 – 14:20 Lunch

14:20 – 15:00 Vojtech Bartos (University of Milan): “The Color of Knowledge: Impacts of Tutor Race on Learning and Performance” (with Ulrich Glogowsky and Johannes Rincke)

15:00 – 15:40 Ala Alrababah (Bocconi University): “Understanding Refugee Return: Evidence from a Panel Survey on Syrian Displacement”

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 – 16:50 Francesco Loiacono (EBRD): Matching with the Right Attitude: The Effect of Matching Firms with Refugee Workers (with Mariajose Silva-Vargas)

16:50 – 17:30 Daniel Auer (Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Mannheim): “Asparagus! Worker Shortages and Local Immigration Support” (with Gloria Gennaro and Tiziano Rotesi)

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Friday 4 April

9:20 – 10:00 Abu Siddique (Royal Holloway University of London): “Interethnic Proximity and Political Development”

10:00 – 10:40 Max Steinhardt (Free University of Berlin): “The Impact of Childhood Inter-Ethnic Contact on Managers’ Hiring Decisions” (with Liam Wren-Lewis, Luca Paolo Merlino, Philip Rosenbaum)

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 11:50 Riccardo Ghidoni (University of Bologna): “The Transferability of Racial Prejudice Through Collective Memory: the Marocchinate” (with David Schindler)

11:50 – 12:30 Sara Giunti (University of Milan): “Hacking Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Stereotypes: a Field Experiment in Italian High-Schools” (with Andrea Guariso, Mariapia Mendola, Irene Solmone)

Local Organisers:
Sara Giunti (University of Milan), Andrea Guariso (University of Milano Bicocca, LEAP and LdA), Mariapia Mendola (University of Milano Bicocca, LdA and IZA)

This workshop is organised within the activities of the research project:
“Demographic Changes and Enriched Society” funded by Fondazione Cariplo