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Chair: Ariell Reshef (PSE, CNRS)

08:45-09:00 – Welcome speech
Edouard Challe (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)

09:00-09:45 – Opening Lecture
Questions and challenges for 21st century labor markets
Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford, CEPR)

09:45-10:45 – Carbon Tax and Labor Reallocation: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Energy Efficiency
François Fontaine (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Discussant: Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris, CEPR)

10:45-11:00 – Coffee break

11:00-12:00 – Technological Progress of Generative AI capabilities at Work in Finance and Business
Maria del Rio-Chanona (UCL)
Discussant: Simon Bunel (Banque de France)

12:00-13:00 – Presentations PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers

13:00-14:00 – Lunch break and Poster Session PhD students

14:00-15:30 – Policy Session – International Monetary Fund
Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Giovanni Melina (International Monetary Fund)
Discussant: Stijn Broecke (OECD)

15:30-15:50 – Coffee break and Poster Session PhD students

15:50-16:00 – CEPR Address
Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Geneva Graduate Institute, CEPR)

16:00-17:00 – Keynote Lecture
Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future
David Autor (MIT)

17:00-18:00 – Policy Conversation

Recordings, podcasts, and related content from Day 1:

Automation and the value of expertise - David Autor - Cover image
VoxEU Talk

Automation and the value of expertise

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  • Artificial Intelligence
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  • Labour Markets

Chair: Marc Gurgand (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)

09:45-10:45 – Does Feasibility Explain the Unequal Development of Working From Home?
Thomas Breda (PSE, CNRS)
Discussant: Eva Moreno-Galbis (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

10:45-11:45 – The Spatial and Distributive Implications of Working-from-Home: A General Equilibrium Model
Morgane Richard (Sciences Po)
Discussant: Laurent Gobillon (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)

11:45-12:00 – Coffee break

12:00-13:00 – Presentations PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers

13:00-14:00 – Lunch break and Poster Session PhD students

14:00-15:30 – Policy Session – DARES
Working Conditions and Telework in France: Trends, Risks and Emerging Insights
Elisabeth Algava and Fabien Guggemos (DARES)
Discussant: Clémence Berson (European Central Bank)

15:30-16:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session PhD students

16:00-17:00 – Keynote Lecture
Why Working from Home Will Stick?
Steven J. Davis (Hoover Institution, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)

17:00-17:30 – Daniel Cohen Prize Award Ceremony

17:30-18:00 – Daniel Cohen, ENS and PSE: A shared legacy, a common project
Speakers: Esther Duflo, Olivier Legrain and Frédéric Worms

18:00-19:00 – Policy Conversation

Recordings, podcasts, and related content from Day 2:

Steven Davis speaking at a podium with a microphone during the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. The text overlay reads “Will working from home stick?” as part of a VoxTalks with Tim Phillips podcast series.
VoxEU Talk

Will working from home stick?

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  • Labour Markets
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  • Productivity and Innovation

Chair: Luc Behaghel (PSE, INRAE)

09:45-10:45 – Rise in home working and spousal labor supply
Mylène Feuillade (PSE)
Discussant: Olatz Roman (European University Institute)

10:45-11:45 – Gender Competition and Norms around Women’s Work
Suanna Oh (PSE, CEPR)
Discussant: Federica Meluzzi (CREST)

11:45-12:00 – Coffee break

12:00-13:00 – Presentations PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers

13:00-14:00 – Lunch break and Poster Session PhD students

14:00-15:30 – Policy Session – OECD
The Role of Firms on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence and Policy Perspectives
Stephane Carcillo (OECD)
Discussant: Anne Boring (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

15:30-16:00 – Coffee break and Poster Session PhD students

16:00-17:00 – Keynote Lecture
Gender Inequality: An Overview of the Latest Research
Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago Booth School of Business, CEPR)

17:00-18:00 – Policy Conversation

Recordings, podcasts, and related content from Day 3:

Marianne Bertrand giving a presentation titled “Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave,” part of the VoxEU CEPR Policy Forum series.
VoxEU Talk

Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave

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  • Gender
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  • Labour Markets

Conference Organisers

Edouard Challe

Professor of Economics and Senior CNRS Researcher Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Esther Duflo

Co-Director Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); President Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Fellow, Public Economics / Fellow, Development Economics / Fellow, Climate Change and the Environment / Distinguished Fellow / Advisory Group Member

Francesco Pappadà

Assistant Professor Ca' Foscari University Of Venice; Affiliate Researcher Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

President Centre for Economic Policy Research; President Professor of Global Economics, Climate and Nature Finance Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID); Visiting Professor Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society INSEAD

CEPR President / RPN Member, European Economic Policy / RPN Member, Geoeconomics / Fellow, Climate Change and the Environment

CEPR Poster Session Scientific Committee

Jérôme Adda

Professor, Department of Economics Bocconi University; Rockwool Foundation Berlin

Anton Korinek

Visiting Fellow Brookings Institution; Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research; Professor, Department of Economics and Darden School of Business University of Virginia

Fellow, International Macroeconomics and Finance / Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations / RPN Leader, Artificial Intelligence

Hélène Rey

Vice President Centre for Economic Policy Research; Lord Bagri Professor of Economics London Business School

On June 18 to 20, 2025, the Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Economie de Paris will host the third PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, following the success of the first and second Forums in 2023 and 2024. The Forum aims to discuss critical emerging issues among leading researchers and policymakers, reaching a large audience that includes government officials and legislators, corporate managers, the media, and academia.

The 2025 Forum's overarching theme will be “The Future of Work.” It will explore issues related to the reallocation of jobs and the reorganization of work in a world led by demographic changes, technological mutations and the environmental transition. It will explore the recent evolutions in social preferences and attitudes towards work, as well as the dynamics of compensations and their distribution across skills, gender, and race. It will delineate the innovative policies and strategies needed to meet those challenges.

The keynote speakers for this edition of the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum are:
  • David Autor (MIT),
  • Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth and CEPR),
  • Steven J. Davis (Stanford),
  • Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford and CEPR).
The Forum will feature policy sessions and research sessions where representatives of the OECD, the IMF, French DARES and academic scholars will present their recent work on the subject. It will also showcase the next generation of economists through poster sessions and presentations by PhD students. Additionally, the Daniel Cohen prize for excellence in PhD research will be awarded by PSE. 

The goal of the poster sessions is to provide a forum for European researchers to get exposure for and receive feedback on their work.

Augmented poster session details:
Researchers accepted to present their poster will give very short (<10 min) presentations of their work in a pre-lunch session during the conference and participate in poster sessions during the extended lunch periods immediately following their presentations. All Forum attendees will be encouraged to engage with the poster-session presenters, and poster session presenters are encouraged to attend the full three-day event.

Eligibility:
Given its goals, only researchers pursuing a PhD from a European economics program are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to those students expecting to go on the academic job market in 2025-2026. 

CEPR Poster Session Scientific Committee:
Jerome Adda (Bocconi University and CEPR)
Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po and CEPR)
Anton Korinek (Barcelona School of Economics and CEPR)
Hélène Rey (London Business School and CEPR)
 
Conference Organisers: 
Edouard Challe (Paris School of Economics and CEPR)
Esther Duflo (Paris School of Economics, MIT and CEPR)
Jean-Olivier Hairault (Paris School of Economics)
Francesco Pappadà (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Paris School of Economics)
Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Graduate Institute, Geneva, INSEAD and CEPR)
 
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CEPR Paris Symposium 2025

5 Dec 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 in Paris, France