Our Seminars & Workshops
Seminars
Workshops
Thu 3 Oct, '24- |
PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 7 Oct, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Wayne Gao (UPenn)S2.79 |
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Tue 8 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Thiemo FetzerS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 8 Oct, '24- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Max Posch (Exeter)S2.79 |
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Thu 10 Oct, '24- |
PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Bernardo Silveira (UCLA)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 14 Oct, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Eleonora Guarnieri (Bristol)S2.79Title: Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats) Nearly half of all known languages in the world are under threat of extinction or are already extinct. What are the determinants of language extinction? In this paper, we uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its language’s risk of extinction: languages from more gender-equal societies face a higher likelihood of extinction compared to those from male-dominant societies. We measure language status and male-dominance using the Ethnologue and the Male Dominance Index (Guarnieri and Tur-Prats, 2023), respectively, for a sample of 4,763 languages in 172 countries. Our results show that the negative relationship between male dominance and language extinction holds even after accounting for fundamental determinants of economic development and societal collapse at the language-group level, such as geography, conflict exposure, climate variability, and historical factors, as well as after the inclusion of country fixed effects. We then investigate the impact of inter-group relationships in the context of colonialism by relating each indigenous group to its colonizer in a dyadic setting. We find that societies with more gender-equal norms than those of their colonizers are significantly more prone to language extinction. Cultural distance in gender norms from the colonizer is a stronger predictor of language extinction than the characteristics of either the colonizer or the indigenous group itself. |
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Tue 15 Oct, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop)S2.79 |
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Tue 15 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Alex ZhouS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 15 Oct, '24- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Mariaflavia Harari (UPenn)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 16 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Thu 17 Oct, '24- |
PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Volha Charnysh (MIT)S2.79Title to be advised |
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Mon 21 Oct, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 22 Oct, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop)S2.79 |
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Tue 22 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Francesco FerlengaS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 22 Oct, '24- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Arold Benjamin WilhelmS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 23 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Carolina Kansikas (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 23 Oct, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Philippe Jehiel (UCL)S2.79 |
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Thu 24 Oct, '24- |
PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Maggie Penn (Emory)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 24 Oct, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - Joan Monras (UPF)S2.79Title to be advised |
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Mon 28 Oct, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Guillaume Blanc (Manchester)S2.79Title: Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg) We argue that societies with higher fertility experience increased levels of emigration. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility created a large reservoir of surplus labor that could find better opportunities in the New World. We denote such migrations, from labor-abundant to land-abundant regions, as Malthusian migrations. Our results hold in a variety of datasets and specifications, across countries, regions, individuals, and periods. Using linguistic distance from French and twin births as instruments for fertility in crowdsourced genealogical data, we estimate a large effect of fertility on out-migration. Within households, later born children were more likely to migrate as fertility increased, particularly in regions with egalitarian inheritance. We develop a Malthusian model allowing for emigration as a way to escape population pressures, alleviating the negative effects of high fertility and contributing to the emergence of modern economic growth.
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Tue 29 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Sara SpazianiS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 29 Oct, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop)S2.79 |
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Tue 29 Oct, '24- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Abhijeet Singh (HHS).S2.79Title to be advised |
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Wed 30 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Wed 30 Oct, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Joel Flynn (Yale)S2.79Title: Optimally Coarse Contracts (joint work with Roberto Corrao and Karthik Sastry). |
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Thu 31 Oct, '24- |
PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Nina McMurry (Vanderbilt)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 5 Nov, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop)S2.79 |
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Tue 5 Nov, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Stefano CariaS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 5 Nov, '24- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Jacob Moscana (MIT)S2.79Title to be advised |
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Wed 6 Nov, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |