Applied Microeconomics
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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
Monday, October 10, 2022
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Economic History Seminar - Eric Schneider (LSE)S2.79Title: Worldwide Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century Abstract: This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 877 historical child growth studies to reconstruct child stunting rates, the share of children who are too short for their age, for 121 countries from the earliest date possible to the present. This data complements and extends the modern Joint Malnutrition Estimates database of country-level stunting rates, which begins in the 1980s. We find that many European countries had stunting rates similar to current LMICs at the turn of the twenti- eth century, but child stunting fell in the early twentieth century reaching very low levels before World War II. Stunting rates were also very high in Japan and Korea. However, stunting rates were surprisingly low historically in the European settler colonies, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Historical comparisons of child stunting add a new dimension to the historical health transition and allow for more direct historical lessons for the fight against stunting today. |
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Economics PhD job talk session - Gianni MarcianteS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: When Nation Building Goes South: Draft Evasion, Government Repression, And The Origins Of The Sicilian Mafia Fields: Economic History, Political Economy Supervisors: James Fenske, Sharun Mukand |
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Econometrics Seminar - David Frazier (Monash)S2.79Title: Solving the Forecasting Combination Puzzle (with Ryan Zischke, Gael M. Martin and Donald Poskitt)
Abstract: We demonstrate that the so-called forecasting combination puzzle is a consequence of the methodology commonly used to produce forecast combinations. By the combination puzzle, we refer to the empirical finding that predictions formed by combining multiple forecasts in ways that seek to optimize forecast performance often do not out-perform more naive, e.g. equally-weighted, approaches. In particular, we demonstrate that, due to the manner in which such forecasts are typically produced, tests that aim to discriminate between the predictive accuracy of such competing combinations can have low power, and can lack size control, leading to an outcome that favors the simpler approach. In short, we show that this counter-intuitive result can be completely avoided by the adoption of more efficient estimation strategies in the production of the combinations, when feasible. We illustrate these findings both in the context of forecasting a functional of interest and in terms of predictive densities. |