Title of paper to be advised.

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Wayne Geerling (Monash University) and Jadrian Wooten (Penn State)
Chair: Parama Chaudhury (UCL)

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(Paper available here)

Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

Organiser of T&L Seminars (2021-22) : Dr Subhasish Dey

1-1:30pm - Emil Kostadinov : Title of talk is Good Practices for RAE Projects
1:30-2pm - Bishnupriya Gupta : Title to be confirmed.

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Title of paper to be advised.

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Title: Black-White Economic Progress: The Impact of the Boll Weevil

Organisers: Bishnupriya Gupta & Claudia Rei

This seminar is joint with Bristol University and will be hosting today's event.

There will be two presentations at this seminar:

1-1:30pm James Fenske "Cynicism, Irrelevance, and Visibility"

1:30-2pm Dennis Novy “Teaching International Trade”

T&L Seminar organiser (2021-22) - Dr Subhasish Dey

Title of paper to be advised.

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Title “Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”

 Organisers: Bishnupriya Gupta & Claudia Rei

Title to be advised.

CWIP Workshop organiser - Dr Andreas Stegmann

Title - Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply (joint work with Barbara Boelmann and Uta Schönberg).

Abstract:

Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions after she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labor market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more traditional male breadwinner-model. After reunification, these two cultures were suddenly brought together, with consequent increased social interactions between East and West Germans through migration and commuting. Zooming in on East and West Germans who migrated across the former inner-German border, we document a strong asymmetry in the persistence of the culture in which women were raised. Whereas East German female migrants return to work earlier and work longer hours than their West German colleagues even after long exposure to the more traditional West German culture, West German migrants adjust their post-birth labor supply behavior nearly entirely to that of their East German colleagues. West German return migrants continue to be influenced by the more gender egalitarian East German norm even after their return to the West, pointing towards the importance of learning from peers. Finally, taking advantage of differential inflows of East German migrants across West German workplaces in the aftermath of reunification, we show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces “native” West German mothers to accelerate their return to work after childbirth, suggesting that migration might be a catalyst for cultural change.

Seminar organisers: Manuel Bagues and Ludovica Gazze

Title: Agenda-manipulation in ranking, joint with Gregorio Curello (University of Bonn).

Ingrid Kvangraven (King's College London)

Carolina Alves (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Ramin Nassehi (UCL)

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Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes 

Title of paper to be advised.

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Mikhail is a visiting fellow in Behavioural Science for the duration of this term, so this will be great opportunity to meet Mikhail and learn more about his research interests.

An invitation link will be added on the day. The talk is entitled Context effects in preferential and perceptual choice. A link to the abstract and the working paper can be found here

Title - Labor Market Beliefs and the Gender Wage Gap.

This seminar is joint with Bristol University and Warwick will be hosting today's event.

Title : Bounded Rationality, Complexity and Optimal Incentives (joint with David Huffman and Collin Raymond)
The abstract is:
This paper provides empirical support for the importance of contract complexity, and heterogeneity in worker bounded rationality, for understanding optimal incentives. Specifically, the paper shows that an important aspect of a workplace incentive scheme – dynamic incentives in the form of the so-called ratchet effect – can be a shrouded attribute that some workers neglect due to complexity. In field experiments within a firm, and in online experiments with real effort tasks, many workers make choices consistent with being unaware of dynamic incentives. Changing the contract to make the dynamic incentives more transparent, or looking at the sub-sample of workers with high cognitive ability, a response to dynamic incentives emerges. The results have several implications: a potential optimal degree of complexity; heterogeneous effects of incentives depending on worker cognitive ability; framing and structure of incentives may matter through the channel of complexity; incentive effects may change over time if learning reduces complexity; firms may want to tailor incentives to the cognitive sophistication of their particular workforce.

Title to be advised.

Organiser: Bruno Souza (PGR)

Organiser (2021-22): Dr Subhasish Dey

The title of talk is Moodle Design and Editing 2021/22

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Title of paper to be advised.

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Léo Czajka (UCLouvain): Inequality, redistribution, and growth: Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019

Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/81709269937?pwd=Qkh6b0ZPYW9NZGtOd0pOSGFHMEhYdz09

Joseba will be visiting the department for this Seminar, Federico Rossi is hosting this visit.

Title Automation Potential and Diffusion

Abstract: We introduce a novel methodology to measure the invention and diffusion of labor-replacing technology in the US economy. First, we measure the relevance of US patents introduced from 1920-2018 to work tasks performed by human workers using a natural language processing algorithm. After controlling for the confounding effects of the evolution of language, we obtain a measure that we call the \textit{automation potential} of newly introduced technology: the potential for that technology to eventually replace human workers in the performance of tasks. In a local projections framework, we estimate the impulse response of task hours worked to an automation potential shock and find negative effects, especially at longer horizons, suggesting i) that our measure captures the development of labor-replacing technology, and ii) that such technology diffuses gradually into the economy.

Title: Rural migrants, urban living conditions and spatial equilibrium (with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg)

Abstract: This paper provides new theory and evidence on how the consumption patterns of rural migrants and their sensitivity to living conditions affect the distribution of activity across Chinese cities. We first present two stylized facts on rural-urban migrants in China. (i) Rural migrants sort into large cities that offer high wages but also that suffer from high living costs and low amenities. (ii) Migrants are less sensitive to bad living conditions in cities, especially when tighter registration requirements make it harder for them to settle there. We then develop a quantitative spatial model in which migrants partly consume and enjoy amenities in their origin locations. Our quantitative model of location choice explains why migrants choose large cities with high wage and low living conditions, which further increases congestion in these cities. Consumption imbalances have a significant impact on the allocation of workers between rural areas and cities. They also have an impact on their allocation across cities and migration restrictions may backfire: when migrants are not allowed to settle at destination, they become less sensitive to local living conditions and the largest cities grow even more.

Title to be advised.

Seminar organisers: Manuel Bagues & Ludovica Gazze

Title: Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences

Title: "Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium" (with H. Zhou)

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