Applied Microeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
The Applied Microeconomics research group unites researchers working on a broad array of topics within such areas as labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation. The group operates in close collaboration with the CAGE Research Centre.
The group participates in the CAGE seminar on Applied Economics, which runs weekly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm. Students and faculty members of the group present their ongoing work in two brown bag seminars, held weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1pm. Students, in collaboration with faculty members, also organise a bi-weekly reading group in applied econometrics on Thursdays at 1pm. The group organises numerous events throughout the year, including the Research Away Day and several thematic workshops.
Our activities
Work in Progress seminars
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-2pm
Students and faculty members of the group present their work in progress in two brown bag seminars. See below for a detailed scheduled of speakers.
Applied Econometrics reading group
Thursdays (bi-weekly) 1-2pm
Organised by students in collaboration with faculty members. See the Events calendar below for further details
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Applied Microeconomics Group are:
Research Students
Events
Economic History Seminar - Stephan Heblich (Toronto)
Title: The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Grain Invasion (with Stephen Redding and Yanos Zylberberg).
Here is the abstract:
We provide new evidence on the income distributional consequences of trade using the
New World Grain Invasion in the 19th Century and variation in agroclimatic suitability for
wheat across locations within England and Wales. We show that this large-scale agricultural
trade shock led to structural transformation away from agriculture and a redistribution of
population from rural to urban areas. We develop a quantitative spatial model to rationalize
our empirical findings and evaluate the aggregate implications of this international trade
shock. We use our model to undertake counterfactuals for the Grain invasion, holding constant
other exogenous determinants of economic activity. We find modest aggregate welfare
gains combined with much larger income distributional effects, with geography an important
dimension along which these income distributional effects occur.