WISE 2025 - Workshop IdEP in Sustainable Economics

WISE 2025
WISE 2025

Istituto di economia politica

Data d'inizio: 11 marzo 2025 / 15:45

Data di fine: 13 marzo 2025 / 12:45

Casa della sostenibilità, Via della Stazione 46, 6780 Airolo; Sala del Consiglio Comunale - Casa Patriziale, Via Olimpia 31, 6780 Airolo, Svizzera

The Institute of Economics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is pleased to announce the 1st IdEP PhDs and Postdocs Workshop in Sustainable Economics (WISE). The workshop offers an exciting platform for early-stage researchers to present their work on broad sustainability topics: energy, climate, health, development, gender, and labor economics.

Event Program:

 

Tuesday 11th March

 
15:45-16.00 Participant registration  
16.00-16.15 Welcome speech at Casa della sostenibilità  
16.30-17.30 Keynote presentation - Ludovica Gazzè (University of Warwick)  
17.30-17.50 Break  
17.50-19.20

Environmental Economics - Chair Prof. Massimo Filippini

  • Luca Buzzanca (Gran Sasso Science Institute) - "Drought, Mafia and Slavery. Empirical Evidence from Nigerian Mafia’s Human Trafficking in Italy"
  • Costanza Tomaselli (Imperial College London) - “Greening the Red: Climate Transition Risk and Corporate Bankruptcy”
  • Guglielmo Zappalà (UC Berkeley) - “Endogenous green preferences”
 
19.45 Social Apero and dinner at Ristorante Buvette Lüina  
 

Wednesday 12th March

 
09.10-10.40

Labor Economics – Chair Prof. Giovanni Pica

  • Pietro Campa (University of Geneva) - “No Kid Is an Island: Intergenerational Mobility and Peer  Effects”
  • Alessandro Fabbri (University of Geneva) - “Enhancing Employment Outcomes of Vocational School Graduates”
  • Agueda Solis Alonso (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto) - “Work harder or work smarter? The effects of academic distinctions on early careers”
 
10.40-11.00 Break  
11.00-12.30

Political Economy – Chair Prof. Mario Jametti

  • Joseph Enguehard (ENS Lyon) - “The Political Costs of Taxation”
  • Davide Sansone (Sciences Po) - “Come Rain or Shine: Extreme Weather, Climate Attitudes and Political Polarization”
  • Ilaria Malisan (Social Inclusion Lab, Bocconi) - “It is never too late. Televised classes and adult skill acquisition”
 
12.30-13.15 Lunch  
13.15-17.00 Social activity - snowshoeing trail  
17.30-18.30 Roundtable on Sustainability - Benjamin Lerch (Federal Finance Administration)  
18.30-19.30

Poster session

  • Irene Brusini (Norwegian School of Economics) - “Elite women: decomposing success”
  • Gabriele Letta (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) - “Suspended Workers, Abortions and Fertility”
  • Flora Marchioro (USI) - “Carbon Permits, Emissions and Industry Dynamics: Evidence from France”
  • Giulia Valenti (Univerisità Ca' Foscari) - “Mortality, Temperature, and Public Adaptation Policy: Evidence from Italy”
 
19.30 Dinner  
 

Thursday 13th March

 
9.10-10.40

Health Economics – Chair Prof. Fabrizio Mazzonna

  • Nancy Daza Baez (UCL) - “Nature and Nurture in the Production of Childhood BMI”
  • Noa De La Vega (EUI) - “The Aging Parent Penalty Across Countries”
  • Lina Rinaldi (IMT Lucca) - “Promoting Sustainable Diets: Assessing the Impact of Nudges on Reducing Animal-Based Food Consumption”
 
10.40-11.00 Break  
11.00-12.30

Gender Economics – Chair Prof. Patricia Funk

  • Olivia Masi (Bocconi Axa Gender Lab and EUI) - “Don’t Stick a Spoon in Marital Disputes? Sentencing Severity and Domestic Violence”
  • Claudia Marangon (ETH Zurich) - “Identity in Journalism: Evidence from News Reporting of Violence Against Women”
  • Stav Federman (EUI) - “The Long-Term Impact of Extended Military Service on Women’s Employment, Education, and Fertility”
 
12.30-12:45 Closing remarks  

 

Organizing committee: Flavia Cavallini, Mario Jametti, Alda Marchese, Flora Marchioro
Scientific committee: Mattia Albertini, Flavia Cavallini, Amanda De Pirro, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Flora Marchioro, Andrea Marcucci, Eugenia Maria Frezza

In collaboration with: IdEP, USI and the Swiss National Science Foundation