Our Seminars & Workshops
Seminars
Workshops
Tue 28 May, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Leeat Yariv (Princeton)S0.20Title to be advised. |
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Wed 29 May, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Jiaqi LiS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Divorce Expectation, Human Capital, and Life Cycle of Female Labor Supply Abstract: There is a puzzle in economics and sociology that Black women have a higher labor supply than white women in the US. This paper shows the gap is driven by married Black women with high wages returning to work quickly after childbirth. I develop a life cycle model of female labor supply, human capital, consumption, and savings with marriage uncertainty. The structural model demonstrates that Black women stay in the workforce to maintain human capital and hedge against marital instability. Furthermore, this paper shows structural estimates of human capital depreciation in the labor literature are likely biased without sample selection correction for exclusive restriction. Title: Minimum Wage, Marriage, and Fertility Abstract: Exploiting state-varying minimum wage in the US from 1975 to 2016, this paper shows the causal effect of minimum wage on marriage, divorce, and fertility. An increase in state minimum wage by 1 dollar significantly increases the marriage rate by 0.6 percentage points, reduces the divorce rate by 0.4 percentage points, and increases the fertility rate by 0.5 percentage points. I develop an equilibrium life cycle model of marriage, fertility, labor supply, and consumption to decompose the causal effects by complementarity in leisure time among partners, and substitutability in child production. This paper demonstrates that labor market policy has significant spillovers on the marriage market. |
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Wed 29 May, '24- |
Teaching & Learning Seminar - Nahid Farnaz (York)S0.18Title: Enhancing Learning Through Group Work: Challenges and Strategies Abstract: Group work is a powerful pedagogical tool that promotes active learning, collaboration, and critical thinking skills among students. This seminar explores some effective strategies for implementing group work in educational settings along with the challenges associated with integrating group work into formative and summative assessments. |
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Thu 30 May, '24- |
Seminar - Julien LabonneS0.20Title: How Does Social Protection Affect Local Politics? (joint with Tatsuya Koyama and Pablo Querubin) Host: Andreas Stegmann |
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Thu 30 May, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - Thierry Mayer (Sciences PO)S0.09Title: Gravity of Violence |
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Mon 3 Jun, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi)S2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic, co-authored with E.Berkes, D.Coluccia, and G Dossi.
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Mon 3 Jun, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)S0.10Title: Testing Inequalities Linear in Nuisance Parameters (with Gregory Cox and Yuya Shimizu) at the econometrics seminar. Abstract- This paper proposes a new test for inequalities that are linear in possibly partially identified nuisance parameters, called the generalized conditional chi-squared (GCC) test. It extends the subvector conditional chi-squared (sCC) test in Cox and Shi (2023, CS23) to a setting where the nuisance parameter is pre-multiplied by an unknown and estimable matrix of coefficients. Properly accounting for the estimation noise in this matrix while maintaining the simplicity of the sCC test is the main innovation of this paper. [How? New variance formula? Rank condition?] As such, the paper provides a simple solution to a broad set of problems including subvector inference for models represented by linear programs, nonparametric instrumental variable models with discrete regressor and instruments, and linear unconditional moment inequality models. We also derive a simplified formula for computing the critical value that makes the computation of the GCC test elementary. |
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Tue 4 Jun, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - to be advisedS0.09Title to be advised. |
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Tue 4 Jun, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - to be advisedS0.09Title to be advised. |
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Tue 4 Jun, '24- |
Applied Economics/Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Zoe CullenS0.10Title: Pushing the Envelope: A Field Experiment in Negotiations (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson) What role does negotiation play in the job market for professionals? Does it affect the allocation of labor and split of surplus? In a field experiment with over 3,000 mid-career professionals actively seeking offers, we establish new facts about how people negotiate and the causal impact of negotiation on employment terms. We use experimental results and detailed offer data to propose a model of portfolio bargaining.
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Wed 5 Jun, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS0.09Title to be advised. |
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Wed 5 Jun, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Giacomo Lanzani (Harvard)S0.10Title: Dynamic Concern for Misspecification Abstract: We consider an agent who posits a set of probabilistic models for the payoff-relevant outcomes. The agent has a prior over this set but fears the |
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Thu 6 Jun, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Saraswata Chaudhuri (McGill)S0.18Title: More powerful Difference-in-difference (co-authored with my student Yang Ning). |
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Mon 10 Jun, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Marco Tabellini (HBS)S2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates (with Marguerite Obolensky, Charles A Taylor).. |