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LAURENS CHERCHYE – MAR 27 2026

March 20, 2026

Laurens Cherchye (KULeuven) – Children, Marriage Markets, and Poverty: Intrahousehold Allocations and Individual Welfare

This paper investigates how the presence of children and educational attainment shape intrahousehold resource allocations and individual welfare within marriage markets. Building …

BRAM VERVLIET – MAR 20 2026

March 20, 2026

The Psychology of Poverty

Bram Vervliet (KULeuven)

“Poverty claims lives. It leads to premature death, hinders personal development, undermines physical health, and triggers mental disorders. The stress caused by financial scarcity is chronic and extremely heavy. Despite the strong resilience …

THÉRÈSE BASTIN – APR 10 2026

April 10, 2026

When Wealth Taxes Don’t Bite: Behavioural Responses to the Belgian Financial Wealth Tax

Thérèse Bastin (ULB)

“This paper examines taxpayers’ behavioural responses to a specific wealth tax. Leveraging an unprecedented tax on the financially wealthiest individuals and a unique individual banking …

FABIO BLASUTTO – APR 17 2026

April 17, 2026

Income Pooling and Within Household Risk-Sharing: Evidence from Data on Individual Expenditures

Fabio Blasutto (ULB)

ROBERT DUR – MAY 15 2026

May 15, 2026

Tax Misperceptions and Labor Supply: A Two-Wave Survey Experiment in the Netherlands

Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

(joint work with Job Harms and Arjan Non)

Abstract: In countries with a complex tax system, it can be difficult for people to correctly assess their effective marginal tax …

SIGRID SUETENS – MAY 29 2026

May 29, 2026

Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) – Double fairness standards in Germany and France

Double fairness standards in Germany and France co-author Sueda Fatma Evirgen Ethnic minorities in European and other high-income countries experience persistent employment and wage gaps relative to majority …

THOMAS DEMUYNCK – JUN 05 2026

June 5, 2026

Non-parametric test of Single-crossing indifference curves

Thomas Demuynck (ULB)

Indifference curves are single crossing if one individual has more intense preferences for a certain good compared to the other. We show that in a consumption setting, single crossing indifference curves are equivalent …

CAROLINE MIEHE – JUN 12 2026

June 12, 2026

Urbanization Meets the Environment

Caroline Miehe - NOVAFRICA, Nova University Lisbon

Climate change is intensifying natural disasters such as floods, which are especially destructive in coastal cities. At the same time, conflict and environmental stress are driving rapid, often unregulated urban …

MORGANE DUMONT – JUN 26 2026

June 26, 2026

Cross‑border multimodal mobility in the Greater Region: modelling framework and synthetic population development (MMUST+)

Morgane Dumont (HEC Liège)

IMA WORLD CONGRESS 2026

July 1, 2026

International Microsimulation Association (IMA) World Congress 2026

Brussels July 1–3, 2026

UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

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