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Families, Welfare Policies and Child Human Capital | LISER

Workshop

English

Families, Welfare Policies and Child Human Capital

When:

TUE, 26 MAY 2026

From:

9:00 AM

To:

4:30 PM

Context

The Living Conditions department of the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) is organising the workshop “Families, Welfare Policies and Child Human Capital”.

The workshop brings together complementary theoretical and empirical perspectives on the formation of children’s human capital and the mechanisms through which families and public policies shape child development trajectories. The different contributions examine how parental characteristics, beliefs, investments, and family interactions, as well as welfare policies, educational interventions, and early childhood education and care, influence children’s cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes.

The workshop will feature a keynote lecture by Prof. Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California) on decision-making and child development.

Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (C21/SC/16307947)

Keynote Lecture

Isabelle Brocas

Isabelle Brocas is Professor at the University of Southern California and the co-director of the Los Angeles Behavioral Economics Laboratory (LABEL) and the Theoretical Research in Neuroeconomic Decision-making (TREND) Institute. Her research revisits standard theories of decision-making and aims at better understanding how people make choices, what motivates them and what cognitive limitations prevent them from making rational choices.

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Tentative program

Last updated on May 12, 2026.

9:00 AM - To: 9:15 AM

Welcome coffee & registration

9:15 AM - To: 9:30 AM

Welcome address by Dr. Audrey Bousselin

9:30 AM - To: 11:00 AM

Session 1: Early Childhood Resources for Families and Child Development

9h30-10h15: Early Childhood Investments and the School-Entry Age Penalty: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data, Andrea Albanese (LISER), Audrey Bousselin (LISER)
Discussant: Mariagrazia Cavallo (University of Lausanne)
10h15-11h00: Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries, Martina Pezer (Institute of Public finance)
Discussant: Denisa M. Sologon (LISER)

11:00 AM - To: 11:30 AM

Coffee break

11:30 AM - To: 12:30 PM

Keynote Lecture

Keynote by Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California) - Children’s Human Capital: Genes, Environments, and the Limits of One-Size-Fits-All Policy: Why welfare policies must move from average effects to developmental heterogeneity?

12:30 PM - To: 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - To: 3:30 PM

Session 2: Family Processes and Child Development

14h00-14h45: Parental personality and child skills formation, Gaston Fernandez (LISER)
Discussant: François Maniquet (UCLouvain)
14h45-15h30: The Accuracy and Malleability of Parental Beliefs about Child Socio-Emotional Health, Audrey Bousselin (LISER), Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California), Giorgia Menta (LISER), Eugenio Proto (University of Glasgow)
Discussant: Bertrand Verheyden (LISER)

3:30 PM - To: 4:30 PM

Closing address and Farewell drink

Contact

Event organizer:

Dr. Audrey Bousselin

audrey.bousselin@liser.lu

Partners:

When:

TUE, 26 MAY 2026

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