Econometrics & Applied Micro Seminars

Term 1

• 18 September 2023
  Presenter: Till Von Wachter (UCLA)
  Title: "UI Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002-2020"
  
  
• 2 October 2023
  Presenter: Matthijs Oosterveen (University of Lisbon)
  Title: "The Quality of School Track Assignment Decisions by Teachers"
  
  
• 16 October 2023
  Presenter: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)
  Title: "Balancing Unobservables: Large-Sample Properties of the Synthetic Control Algorithm"
  
  
• 23 October 2023
  Presenter: Erika Deserranno (Università Bocconi)
  Title: "Gender Disparities in the Impact of Minimum Wage on Similarly Situated Workers"
  
  
• 6 November 2023
  Presenter: Tommaso Nannicini (EUI - School of Transnational Governance)
  Title: "Fighting Populism on Its Own Turf: Experimental Evidence"
  
  
• 4 December 2023
  Presenter: Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
  Title: "The right timing matters: sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills"

Term 2

• 8 January 2024
  Presenter: Davide Viviano (Harvard University)
  Title: "On the design of network experiments"
  
  
• 29 January 2024
  Presenter: Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz)
  Title: "Diversity and discrimination in the classroom"
  
  
• 5 February 2024
  Presenter: Marianna Brunetti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
  Title: "A further look at the gender gap in Italian academic careers"
  
  
• 19 February 2024
  Presenter: Francesco Russo (Università di Napoli Federico II)
  Title: "Cultural Doorways in the Barriers to Development"
  
  
• 26 February 2024
  Presenter: Andrea Guariso (University of Milan-Bicocca)
  Title: "Reducing child mortality in the last mile: lessons from Uganda"
  
  

Term 3

• 25 March 2024
  Presenter: Bret McCully (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  Title: "The Democratic Transition and Structural Transformation"
  
  
• 22 April 2024
  Presenter: Fredrik Sävje (Yale University)
  Title: "A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments"
  
  
• 6 May 2024
  Presenter: Eric Auerbach (Northwestern University)
  Title: "Identifying Socially Disruptive Policies"
  
  
• 27 May 2024
  Presenter: Andrea Mercatanti (Università di Roma)
  Title: "A Bayesian Model for Estimating Spillover Effects in Unconventional Monetary Policy"
  
  
• 3 June 2024
  Presenter: Felix Weinhardt (European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder)
  Title: "Separate housework spheres"
  
  

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