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There will be two x 30mins presentations:

i) Margot will present Follow-up Work to Non-Meritocrats or Choice-Reluctant Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France.

ii) Zhifan will present Bargaining with the Emperors

Damian will present The Geography of Unemployment (by Adrien Bilal).

Two 30 minutes presentations.

i) Shruti will present Public Access, Feasible Choice, and Social Sorting

Exposure to out-group peers in childhood can shape trust, cooperation, and shared norms. Schools are a primary venue for such contact, but sorting across schools within local markets determines who meets whom. This paper estimates the causal effect of increased nearby public-school access on caste segregation across public primary schools. Using geocoded administrative data from rural India over 13 years, I construct distance-based local education markets and measure within-market segregation and peer exposure. I exploit a national reform that tightened proximity standards, using baseline eligibility for the reform as an instrument for realised local access. IV estimates indicate that expanding nearby public-school access increases segregation across public schools. Mechanism evidence is consistent with re-sorting across incumbent public schools: enrolment shifts away from mixed-composition schools, the cross-school distribution of composition becomes more dispersed, and students’ exposure to out-group peers declines, widening exposure gaps. The results suggest that supply-side expansions in public provision can raise segregation by creating new margins for same-group sorting within the public sector.

ii)  Chris will present Failure to launch political campaigns: The impact of candidate dropout on electoral campaigns and voter preferences.