Our Seminars & Workshops
Seminars
Workshops
Tue 28 May, '24- |
Applied Economics/Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Lena Hensvik (Uppsala Universitet)S0.20Title: Outside Job Opportunities and the Gender Gap in Pay Abstract: A growing literature suggests that outside job offers are an important component of on-the-job wage growth. Such outside offers could contribute to the gender wage gap due to a differential arrival rate of (relevant) job opportunities and/or because of gender differences in negotiation. In this paper, we shed light on this source of gender wage inequality by empirically studying male and female wage and job mobility responses to the arrival of outside job opportunities that arise via family networks. We show in Swedish register data that such opportunities are associated with higher wages for men but not for women. However, women have higher job mobility in response to expansions in connected firms- particularly when those offer a shorter commute compared to the current employer. Together, our results are consistent with women being less likely to renegotiate in response to the arrival of job offers. The paper thus confirms in a broader setting that gender negotiation differences is an economically meaningful source of the remaining gender pay gap.
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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 - Lily Shevchenko & Benjamin Koch (PGRs)S0.09There will be two presentations: 1: Lily Shevchenko - Title: Does cancel culture work? Evidence from Reddit Abstract: How well can platforms police user behaviour? We look at the popular social media site, Reddit, where a mass ban of toxic communities occurred in response to a change in the site's conduct policy. We aim to see how the users of these communities changed their behaviour after the ban, as well as at the impact on the platform as a whole. 2. Benjamin Koch - Title: Smart or Corrupt? Informed Trading in the U.S. Congress Abstract: U.S. Committee members enjoy an information privilege in regard to emerging regulations due to their role in shaping legislation. This privilege allows for a better prediction of a company’s future profit. If a politician indeed capitalizes on this privilege by trading affected stock, it would constitute an abuse of office in violation of ethical and legal standards. The identification of information-conflicted trades is not straightforward. Committee members often have prior expertise in the industry the committee is supposed to oversee, and working on the committee further enhances their expertise. To tackle these issues, I link stock transaction records of politicians with information on congressional committees, bills, and stock prices of affected firms. First, I compare Congress members’ portfolio returns before and after they join committees in a difference-in-differences framework, differentiating between committee-associated and -unassociated sub-portfolios. I then contrast the change in returns when Congress members join and leave committees for each sub-portfolio. Second, I use public relevations of milestones of bills and examine the frequency and timing of a politician’s transactions anticipating stock price reactions. My novel approaches contribute to the public and academic debates on how politicians can privately benefit from public office and on the prevalence of insider trading by politicians. |
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Wed 5 Jun, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Giacomo Lanzani (Harvard)S2.79Title: 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 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).. |
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Tue 11 Jun, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - Ernil Sabaj (Warwick)S2.79Title: The effects of government spending under trend inflation: theory and empirics |
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Wed 12 Jun, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Elaheh Fatemi Pour and Anisha Garg (PGRs)S0.08There will be two presentations: 1. Elaheh Fatemi Pour - Title to be advised 2. Anisha Garg - Title: Safe Travels: Transport Advancement and Women’s Safety in India
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Tue 18 Jun, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - Angelica Martinez Levya (PGR)S2.77 Cowling RoomTitle to be advised. |
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Tue 25 Jun, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - to be advisedTBA |