Ben Brooks will be presenting, "A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design" (with Songzi Du)

This seminar is via Zoom : Meeting ID 826 9511 0678 ; Passcode SET2021

EconTEAching chat with Jessica Calarco (Indiana University), Karen Kufuor (Westminster University)

Chair: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

To attend the Zoom chat, please register here (or contact Steffie).
The event is also live-streamed on YouTube (CTaLE channel).

Felix Schaff (LSE): “Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)”

Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/87488770746?pwd=c0NLYkRldzhXYWF1VnZxemdJbFpoQT09

Paper to be advised.

Title of talk is: It Takes Two to Borrow: The Effects of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act on Homeownership and Mortgage Debt of Married Couples

This webinar is via Zoom

Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Mohammad Akbarpour, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimer and Olivier Tercieux) (slides)

Meeting ID 826 9511 0678 ; Passcode SET2021

Georgios will be presenting The Decision-Conflict Logit

This seminar is via Zoom

Meeting ID: 826 9511 0678
Passcode: SET2021

Paper to be advised.

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

Title of paper is Divisible Updating

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

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 

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.

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