Inaugural MESS Workshop

Program

Inaugural Workshop of the Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Network

Date: October 18-19, 2024
Location: UC3M Puerta de Toledo Campus, Madrid
Keynote Speaker: Professor Niloufer A. Siddiqui (SUNY Albany)
Program: Final Version (pdf)
Registration: Link

Friday, October 18, 2024

Panel 1A - The One About Norms and the Radical Right

  • Room: -1.A.03
  • Time: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Discussants: Pau Vall-Pratt & Pedro Riera
  • Presentations:
    • Vicente Valentim & Tarek Jaziri-Arjona. Short-Term Mobility and Changes in Political Norms.
    • Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea & Vicente Valentim. The Enforcement of Political Norms.
    • Piotr Zagórski & Irene Martín. Blame and Oblivion: How Historical Attitudes Shape Support for Vox.
    • Carlos Sanz & Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde. Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment.

Panel 1B - The One About Elites and Interest Groups

  • Room: -1.A.04
  • Time: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Discussants: Pablo Fernández Vázquez & Juan Antonio Mayoral
  • Presentations:
    • Fernando Mello. Do Politicians Weigh the Power of Organized Groups? Evidence from Survey and a WhatsApp Experiment in Brazil.
    • Michael Becher & Daniel Stegmueller. Machines Against Workers? Rethinking the Impact of Robots on Union Strength.
    • Daniel Kselman & Christy Qiu. Factionalism and the Collusion of Radicals in Social Conflict.
    • Nelson Ruiz, Laura Geuerrero & Robin Harding. Not Every Cloud has a Silver Lining: Climate-Related Natural Hazards and Campaign Contributions in Colombia.

Panel 1C - The One About Education and Gender

  • Room: -1.A.06
  • Time: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Discussants: Carlos Lastra-Anadon & Sergio Galaz
  • Presentations:
    • Maria Rubio-Cabañez & Jonas Radl. Polluting Student Test Performance: School-Based Evidence on the Adverse effects of Air Pollution.
    • Fabrizio Bernardi, Alessandro Ferrera & Gaia Ghirardi. Luck and Educational Attainment: An Empirical Approximation Using Variance Function Regressions and Heterogenous Choice Models.
    • Marga Torre & Maik Hamjediers. The Flip Side of Gender Segregation: Men in Female-Dominated Occupations.
    • Marta Fraile, Nerea Gándara Guerra & Paula Zuluaga. Unveiling Feminism: Textual, Emotional, and Symbolic Meanings of Public Opinion on Feminism.

Panel 2A - The One About Historical Legacies

  • Room: -1.A.03
  • Time: 17:45 - 19:00
  • Discussants: Michael Becher & Paul Atwell
  • Presentations:
    • Pau Vall-Prat, Albert Falcó-Gimeno & Jordi Muñoz. Authoritarian Power Sharing and Democratization: The Case of the Transition Mayors in Spain.
    • Fernando De la Cuesta. For Better or Worse: The Long-Term Impact of First Time Voting on The Last Call for Democracy.
    • Siyun Jiang. Democratic Backsliding and Judicial Selection: Evidence from Hong Kong.

Panel 2B - The One About Children and Young Adults

  • Room: -1.A.04
  • Time: 17:45 - 19:00
  • Discussants: Jonas Radl & Warn N. Lekfuangfu
  • Presentations:
    • Antonio Cabrales, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Jaromír Kovářík & Mónica Vasco. Predictors of Bullying Victimization at School: A Network Approach.
    • Sevin Kaytan, Stwarth Piedra Bonilla & Tom Zohar. The Triple Approach for Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Contraception Access, Information Quality, and Prolonged Exposure.
    • Tom Zohar, Dmitry Arkhangelsky & Kazuharu Yanagimoto. Flexible Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Event Studies: Application to the Child Penalty.

Panel 2C - The One About Europe and the Judiciary

  • Room: -1.A.06
  • Time: 17:45 - 19:00
  • Discussants: Zoe Ge & Nikitas Konstantinidis
  • Presentations:
    • Sebastián Lavezzolo, Juan J. Fernández & Ilona Ladehlman. Social Desirability Bias and Pro-European Dispositions.
    • Aleksandra Sojka & Ilke Toygur. Climate Scepticism and Euroscepticism: Exploring the Link in the European Parliament Elections.
    • Juan Antonio Mayoral. Building an EU Trust-Based Legal System: The Relevance of Judicial Trust for Cooperating with the CJEU.

COCKTAIL & POSTER SESSION: The One to Meet and Mingle

  • Room: La Cantina
  • Time: 19:15 - 20:45
  • Posters:
    • Álvaro San Román del Pozuelo. Remote Resentments: Electoral Impacts of Public Infrastructure Expansion.
    • Nadal Perales Oliver. The Historical Origins of Leftist Electoral Support: Evidence from Spain.
    • Raúl Villegas Santana. The Union Effect: How Membership Shapes Work Time Mismatch.
    • Davide Rognini, P. Lecca & J. Díaz-Lanchas. EU-Andorra Free Trade Agreement: a CGE impact analysis.
    • Rubén Gonzálvez Salmerón, Joaquín Artes & Jennifer Graves. The Impact of Minimum Wages on Investment and Productivity: The Case of Spanish Firms.
    • Jair Alva Mendoza. ‘Ils ne passeront pas!’: New Parties and Party System Nationalization in Europe (1946-2020).

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Panel 3A - The One About Misinformation and Civic Education

  • Room: 2.0.A.02
  • Time: 09:00 - 10:30
  • Discussants: Neeraj Prasad & Fran Villamil
  • Presentations:
    • Carlos X. Lastra-Anadón & Daniel J. Flynn. Schooling Against Fake News: An Online and In-Person Intervention to Tackle Misinformation Among Teenagers.
    • Jeremy Siow. Civic Education and Ethnic Tolerance.
    • Rodrigo Fernandez Caba & Simon Chauchard. Does the Style of Misinformation Condition its Effects? An Experiment in Brazil.
    • Paul Atwell, Fernando Barros Mello & Simon Chauchard. Mayors, Messaging, and Misinformation: An Experimental Evaluation of Heightened Legal Standards on Online Misinformation on Local Elections.

Panel 3B - The One About Polarization

  • Room: 2.1.A.02
  • Time: 09:00 - 10:30
  • Discussants: Simon Chauchard & Ilona Lahdelma
  • Presentations:
    • Luis Cornago Bonal & Francesco Raffaelli. Do Political Identities Matter at Work? The Politics of Workplace Cooperation.
    • José Miguel Rojo. Love in the Times of Political Polarisation. A Conjoint Experiment on the Influence of Partisan Identity on Social Distancing.
    • Joaquín Artés Caselles, Beatriz Rodríguez Sánchez, Fernando de la Cuesta Serrano, & Rubén Gonzálvez Salmerón. The Effects on Mental Health of Political Disagreement with the Government.

COFFEE BREAK: The One Where You Wake Up

  • Room: La Cantina
  • Time: 10:30 - 11:00

Panel 4A - The One About India, Spain, Bureaucracies, and Conflict

  • Room: 2.0.A.02
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:30
  • Discussants: Siyun Jiang & Jeremy Siow
  • Presentations:
    • Simon Chauchard & Pavithra Suryanarayan. When Losing The State Drives Opposition to Redistribution: An Experiment in India.
    • Neeraj Prasad, Ursula Daxecker & Kartikeya Batra. Sowing Discord: How Violence Transforms Political Identities and Cleavages.
    • Francisco Villamil, Paloma Aguilar & Fernando de la Cuesta. Grassroots Human Rights and Its Consequences: Mass Grave Exhumations in Spain.
    • Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez & Guillermo Toral. Undoing Insulation: Politicization and Revolving Doors and a Closed Weberian Bureaucracy.

Panel 4B - The One About Ideology and Political Beliefs

  • Room: 2.1.A.02
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:30
  • Discussants: Juan J. Fernández & Sebastián Lavezzolo
  • Presentations:
    • Raúl López-Pérez. Selective Recall and Political Ideology: Experimental Evidence.
    • Sergio Galaz Garcia, Manuel Cuerno, Fernando Galaz-García, & Telmo Pérez-Izquierdo. Political Opposition Vectors in the United States, 1948-2020.
    • Jaime Coulbois. Issue Priority in Two-Dimensional Voting in Times of Economic Crisis: Evidence from Europe in the 21st century.
    • Juan J. Fernández, Plamen Akaliyski & Wolfgang Messner. Within-Country Attitudinal Heterogeneity: A Global Analysis.

KEYNOTE: The One You Don’t Want to Miss

  • Room: 2.0.A.02
  • Time: 12:45 - 14:00
  • Presentation:
    • Niloufer A. Siddiqui. When does Identity Matter? The Supply and Demand of Political Violence.

LUNCH AND MINGLE

  • Location: TBD
  • Time: 14:00 - ?

Additional Information

Information for Paper Presenters:

  • Please send your paper by October 14 to madridempiricalsocialsciences@gmail.com, so we can share it with your discussants prior to the workshop.
  • Your presentation should be no longer than 12 minutes to provide enough time for feedback and discussion.

Information for Discussants:

  • We are going to assign two discussants per panel. Discussants may coordinate internally how they want to split up the papers.
  • Your comments should be no longer than 5 minutes per paper to provide enough time for a Q&A session with the audience.

Information for Poster Presenters:

Scientific Committee

  • Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea (CSIC)
  • Jorge Fernandes (CSIC)
  • Amuitz Garmendia (UC3M)
  • Patrick Kraft (UC3M)
  • Emmy Lindstam (IE University)

Contact Information