Current Econometrics/Applied Micro seminars (2021-2022)
Econometrics/Applied Micro seminars take place on Mondays, at 11:00 until 12:15, unless otherwise specified.
Term 1
04 October 2021
Presenter: Gregor Pfeifer, University of Sydney
Title: The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice: A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
18 October 2021
Presenter: Jan van Ours, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
25 October 2021
Presenter: W. Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia and IZA
Title: Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
29 November 2021
Presenter: Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics
Title: Comparative advantage and technology diffusion: a menu-based approach to dissemination
20 December 2021
Presenter: Enrico Rubolino, University of Lausanne
Title: Taxing the Gender Gap: Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy
Term 2
31 January 2022
Presenter: Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History
21 February 2022
Presenter: Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University
Title: More Laws More Growth? An Empirical Investigation for US States
07 March 2022
Presenter: Pia Pinger, University of Cologne
Title: The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Term 3
04 April 2022
Presenter: Sascha O. Becker, Monash University
Title: Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
02 May 2022
Presenter: Pedro Portugal, Bank of Portugal
Title: The returns to schooling unveiled
16 May 2022
Presenter: Georgia Papadogeorgou, University of Florida
Title: Causal inference with spatio-temporal data
23 May 2022
Presenter: Peter Levell, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Title: Alternative Margins of Adjustment to Trade Shocks
30 May 2022
Presenter: James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
Title: Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services
13 June 2022
Presenter: Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: TBC
Academic Year 2020-2021
Term 2
22 February 2021 - online
Presenter: Giulio Zanella, University of Bologna
Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation
08 March 2021 - online
Presenter: Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics (PSE-INRA)
Directing Job Search: a Large Scale Experiment
29 March 2021 - online
Presenter: David Schönholzer, Stockholm University
Term 3
19 April 2021 - online
Presenter: Karol Jan Borowiecki, University of Southern Denmark
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450
26 April 2021 - online
Presenter: Pierre Mouganie, American University of Beirut
The Impact of Religious Diversity on Students' Academic and Behavioral Outcomes (with S. Canaan and A. Deeb)
31 May 2021 - online
Presenter: Enrico Cantoni, University of Bologna
Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S. (with V. Pons)
7 June 2021 - online
Presenter: Ulf Zölitz, University of Zurich
Peers Affect Personality (with X. Shan)