June 22–23, 2026
TSE
Room Auditorium 3
Aims and Scope
We are pleased to organize the 1st TSE Human Capital Conference, organized by the TSE Human Capital Center with the support of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The conference will take place on June 22 and 23, 2026 at the Toulouse School of Economics.
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on policy-relevant issues around the determinants and consequences of investments in human capital, broadly defined. Topics include—but are not limited to—school market design, school/college choice, active labor market policies, the role of subjective expectations and learning, AI and the labor market, spatial inequalities in education outcomes, the selection and retention of public servants (teachers, nurses, etc.), household welfare and inequality over the life-cycle.
The program features contributed sessions with around 15 papers in total (no parallel sessions). In addition, the conference include a roundtable with practitioners to discuss pressing issues on human capital policy.
Keynote Speakers:
-Parag Pathak, MIT
-Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania
Organizers
Matteo Bobba (TSE, CEPR)
Olivier De Groote (TSE, CEPR)
Arnaud Maurel (Duke, NBER)
François Poinas (TSE)
Program Committee Members
Matteo Bobba (TSE, CEPR), Olivier De Groote (TSE, CEPR), Paul Diegert (TSE), Ana Gazmuri (TSE), Eugenia Gonzalez-Aguado (TSE), Thierry Magnac (TSE, CEPR), Arnaud Maurel (Duke, NBER), Maximilian Müller (TSE), François Poinas (TSE), Augustin Tapsoba (TSE, CEPR).
Conference Venue
Toulouse School of Economics
University Toulouse Capitole
1, Esplanade de l’Université
31080 Toulouse Cedex 06
France
Registration
Attendance is free but registration is mandatory. Registration to the conference is open to all PhD students, postdocs and faculty of TSE as well as invited participants from other institutions.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: February 15, 2026
- Acceptance decision: Early April 2026
- Registration deadline: June 1, 2026
- Conference dates: June 22-23, 2026
Conference Secretariat
For further information, please contact Mélanie Bataillard and Daphné Vannier at human-capital.conference@tse-fr.eu.
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