Cory will be presenting: Long-Run Agglomeration: Evidence from County Seat Wars, joint with Amrita Kulka

This Economtrics Seminar is hosted by Bristol

Speaker: Rosa Matzkin (UCLA)

Title talk: Multivariate Nonseparable Hedonic Models

Zoom link: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6467737869?pwd=VERhbGN5Y1YrclVHVVhORVBSRzhPZz09

Pass-code: 479893

Meeting ID: 646 773 7869

Schedule of the day: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19yAXbaJWko_UNrgwuktv3INE3rSueMLWviHEcgHYicM/edit#gid=0

Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University) will be presenting Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective

Title: Robots, Offshoring and Welfare with Rosario Crino', Gino Gancia and Ioannis Papadakis

Title - Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States

Victor will present the paper Gifted Children Programs’ Long-Term Impact: Higher Education, Earnings, and the Knowledge-Economy (Joint with Yoav Goldstein).

Abstract: We estimate the short-run and longer-term effects of gifted children programs (GCP) in high schools in Israel. The program tracks the most talented students into gifted children classes, starting 10th grade. They receive more resources in smaller classes, a unique curriculum, access to high-quality teachers, and courses in universities. We use test scores in exams that measure intelligence and ability to select a comparison group of equally gifted students from other cities where GCP was not offered at the time. Based on administrative data, we follow 13 cohorts of GCP participants who graduated high school in 1992-2005. We measure treatment effects on outcomes, ranging from high school to the labor market in their 30s and 40s. The evidence on the impact of GCP on academic achievements in high school is mixed. Four of the seven compulsory subjects (bible and civic studies, math, and Hebrew) are significantly negatively impacted. It is positive in history and literature, and in English, computer science, and physics, it is zero. The effect on the average composite score is negative, driven mainly by the impact on boys. However, all these estimates are relatively small, implying a tiny effect size. These results stand in contrast to the abundance of educational resources enjoyed by GCP participants, in addition to better peers in terms of SES background and outcomes. We discuss in this context the potential adverse effect of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect. In the longer run, we find meaningful positive effects of GCP on higher education attainment. All gifted children achieve a BA degree, but a much higher share of GCP participants graduate with a double major. The effect of getting a MA and Ph.D. is also positive; for the latter, it is statistically significant, with an effect size of a 25 percent increase. Examining choice of field of study shows that gifted children in GCP study more math, computer, and physical sciences but engage much less in engineering programs. The net effect on STEM degrees is, therefore, zero. However, among GCP participants, a much higher share graduates with two STEM majors. This evidence, along with the significant effect on a double major, suggests that GCP enhances the impact of “multipotentiality,” which characterizes many gifted adolescents. We find no effect of GCP on employment and earnings. Nor do we find that they work more than other equally talented children in the various sectors of the knowledge economy: hi-tech manufacturing, hi-tech services, R&D firms, and academic institutions. We examine marriage and family formation patterns as mediating effects and find no discerned GCP effects either. We used different samples based on the age at which students took the intelligence and ability test to match a control group to the treatment group. Our results are fully robust to variations in the sample we use. In the short-term, medium-run, and into adulthood, these comprehensive sets of results are not qualitatively different for females and males gifted children who participated in GCP. Analyzing treatment heterogeneity by giftedness level allows us to compare our results to earlier studies that used regression discontinuity designs to identify GCP effects on students who are only marginally eligible for such programs. We find meaningful differences in treatment effect between marginal and inframarginal gifted children, suggesting that it is essential to examine GCP’s impact over the whole spectrum of Giftedness.

This CWIP workshop is via Microsoft Teams

CAGE Economic History Workshop, 5 and 6 May 2021, 3-5pm.

Online Event held via Zoom

Please join us for this event which takes place over two days. We have an exciting programme planned.

Huyen  will be presenting “The (Great) Persuasion Divide? Gender Disparities in Debate Speeches and Evaluations”

This webinar is via Zoom, here is the Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/81695388850?pwd=KzY5Zi9NNGhBTkhnbEE0TlZZZ1VCZz09 

Title of paper is Divisible Updating

If you wish to meet Martin after the seminar please sign up here

CAGE Economic History Workshop, 5 and 6 May 2021, 3-5pm.

Online Event held via Zoom

Please join us for this event which takes place over two days. We have an exciting programme planned.

Dimitris will be presenting Technological Innovation and Labor Income Risk

Speaker and title to be advised.

#EconTEAching chat with:

Jo Blanden (Reader in Economics, Surrey)
Jonathan Boymal (Deputy Dean - Learning and Teaching, RMIT University)
Eric Golson (Deputy Head School of Economics, Surrey)
Chaired by Cloda Jenkins (CTaLE, UCL)

Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

To attend the Zoom meeting, please register here before Monday 10th May 2021 (after this date, contact the organiser if you wish to attend on Zoom).
The session is live-streamed on YouTube.

The title of talk is: Gender Differences in Early Educational Choices: The Case of Mathematical Olympiad Participants

Abstract: Gender differences in preferences and beliefs at high school and university levels have been identified as the main factor explaining low participation of women in science. However, little is known whether these differences are induced at earlier ages and how. In this paper, I aim to explain this issue by studying gender differences in early school choices based on data of mathematical Olympiad’s participants in Slovakia. In particular, I use Olympiad’s awards as an external signal of talent that drives the decision to move a 6th grade child from a regular elementary school to a selective school. To establish causality, I exploit discontinuities in the award function in order to estimate the effect of receiving an award at 5th grade on the probability of moving from a regular to a selective school the year after, and to inspect whether this effect is different for girls and boys.

The weekly CAGE-AMES workshops are via Microsoft Teams on this link for the entire term.

Paper to be advised.

Title: Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth

Haoluan will present: “Flood Your Neighbors: Spillover Effects of Levee Building”

Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/87208468841?pwd=VUh1ODNiQzZCVnlXOTVkaENKMjM0QT09

Paper to be advised.

Title to be advised

Link to Teaching excellence event: Everyday Excellence in an Extraordinary Year (warwick.ac.uk)

Steffie Paredes-Fuentes, Nick Jackson, Atisha Ghosh and Caroline Elliott are all involved in this event in different ways.

This half day workshop-style event organised by WIHEA's Teaching Recognition and Reward Learning Circle, aims to take us from the Warwick (and sector) understanding of teaching excellence (i.e., where policy is made, awards granted etc.) to the idea of the ‘Everyday Excellence’ we all embody in our teaching practice, most particularly in the challenging circumstances of the last 12 months.

This Econometrics Seminar is hosted by Bristol.

Title - Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Theory and Evidence from UK Business Rates

Abstract - We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates in the UK using regression kink and regression discontinuity designs. We exploit exogenous variations in commercial property tax rates from three different reliefs in the UK business rates system: small business rate relief (SBRR),retail relief and empty property relief. A simple theoretical framework predicts: (i) relationships between rateable values and taxes, and vacancies; (ii)that SBRR has a sorting effect on the mix of businesses in small properties. Findings consistent with the theory suggest that SBRR increases the likeli-hood that a property is occupied by a small business, reduces the likelihood that it is occupied by a large business, and reduces the overall likelihood of being vacant. We estimate that the retail relief reduces vacancies by 39%,and SBRR relief by up to 37%.

Emily will be presenting "Breastfeeding: Trends and Selection, 1950 - 2015"

Revolution in progress? The future of remote work in the UK

What is the future of the commuting, 9–5 office workplace model what existed before the pandemic? In this webinar, CAGE Director Mirko Draca will introduce new research that points towards the '80-20' labour market, where around 20–30% of workers will be working remotely for some part of their week.

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#EconTEAching chat with:

John Mitchell, Fiona Truscott, and Luke Olsen (UCL)
Chaired by Parama Chaudhury (CTaLE, UCL)

Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

To attend the Zoom meeting, please register here before Monday 24th May 2021 (after this date, contact the organiser if you wish to attend on Zoom).
The session is live-streamed on YouTube.

Title of paper: Timely Persuasion (with Deepal Basak)

Title: Policymakers' uncertainty, joint with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon, and Song Xiao