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  • Mon05Jun

    Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop

    9:00am - 5:00pm, S2.79

    Contact: Please email david.boll@warwick.ac.uk and andrea.guerrieri-d-amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.

    The programme is available here.

  • Tue06Jun

    CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.

  • Tue06Jun

    Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).

  • Wed07Jun

    CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Thu08Jun

    DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Mikhail Spektor (Department of Psychology)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    What is “context" and how to test for its effects

  • Thu08Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Fri09Jun

    Theory Workshop

    12:00pm, 1 day 2 hours,

    This is taking place in Scarman House

    Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta

  • Thu01Jun

    Spatial-Urban Reading Group - Zoe Zhang

    11:00am - 12:00pm, S2.77 Cowling Room
  • Thu01Jun

    Seminar - Gabriele Gratton

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79
  • Thu01Jun

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Pablo Beker

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79
  • Thu01Jun

    Macro/International Seminar - Anna Ignatenko

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Abstract - This paper disentangles the effects of seller’s and buyer’s market power in firm-to-firm trade. I incorporate oligopoly, oligopsony, and bilateral bargaining in a trade model, in which buyers and sellers differ in productivity, bargaining ability, and preferences. These market structures predict differential patterns of price variation across buyers. Testing these predictions, I find, in most markets, price variation is consistent with oligopolistic price discrimination. More productive buyers pay lower mark-ups because of their better outside options, rather than scale economies, oligopsony power, or bargaining abilities. Consequently, more productive buyers have higher gains from trade and cost shocks’ pass-through into prices.

  • Thu01Jun

    DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Giovanni Burro (IGIER, Milan)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS M1 / Zoom

    A memory walk down Wall Street: How personal memories influence stock investment and information processing

  • Thu01Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Mon05Jun

    Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop

    9:00am - 5:00pm, S2.79

    Contact: Please email david.boll@warwick.ac.uk and andrea.guerrieri-d-amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.

    The programme is available here.

  • Tue06Jun

    CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.

  • Tue06Jun

    Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).

  • Wed07Jun

    CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Thu08Jun

    DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Mikhail Spektor (Department of Psychology)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    What is “context" and how to test for its effects

  • Thu08Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Fri09Jun

    Theory Workshop

    12:00pm, 1 day 2 hours,

    This is taking place in Scarman House

    Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta

  • Tue13Jun

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Wed14Jun

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Joyee Deb

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Thu15Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Tue20Jun

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Thu22Jun

    DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Daniel Bennett (Monash)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS M1 / Zoom

    Take the money and run: investigating the decision to ‘cash out’ of a risky bet

  • Thu22Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Thu29Jun

    Behavioural Reading Group

    4:00pm - 5:00pm, S2.86
  • Wed04Dec

    CAGE Advisory Board

    12:45pm - 3:30pm, British Academy, London
  • Tue11Jul

    9th Annual Summer School - Human Emotions & Decision Making

    9:00am, 3 days 8 hours,
  • Thu13Jul

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    11:00am - 12:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue25Jul

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue15Aug

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue22Aug

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Thu14Sep

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue19Sep

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue10Oct

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)
    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining. Register for Live Chat
  • Tue24Oct

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)
    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining. Register for Live Chat
  • Thu16Nov

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    11:00am - 12:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)
    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining. Register for Live Chat
  • Tue13Jun

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue20Jun

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Thu13Jul

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    11:00am - 12:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue25Jul

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue15Aug

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue22Aug

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Thu14Sep

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue19Sep

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    10:00am - 11:00am, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue10Oct

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue24Oct

    Economics Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Thu16Nov

    Economics Undergraduate Live Chat

    11:00am - 12:00pm, Meet and Engage (Online)

    Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Tue06Jun

    CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.

  • Fri09Jun

    Theory Workshop

    12:00pm, 1 day 2 hours,

    This is taking place in Scarman House

    Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta

  • Tue06Jun

    Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).

  • Wed07Jun

    CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Wed14Jun

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Joyee Deb

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

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