Paper to be advised.

Shakeeb will be presenting

(1) Estimating High dimensional monotone index models by iterative convex optimization; and

(2) On optimal set estimation for partially identified binary choice models.

Here is the schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19yAXbaJWko_UNrgwuktv3INE3rSueMLWviHEcgHYicM/edit#gid=0

This seminar is via Zoom ; Meeeting: ID 914 3179 9075 ; Passcode: 069191

Title and abstract of the paper: Capitalism with Compassion: The Effect of Introducing Market-Based Wages on Attitudes Towards Free Markets and Socialism (Ran Abramitzky , Netanel Ben-Porath , Shahar Lahad, Victor Lavy, Michal Palgi)

Abstract - We study the effects of labor market liberalization on attitudes towards free-market capitalism and socialism, exploiting a sharp reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted away from equal sharing into market-based wages. Our identification strategy relies on the sharp and staggered implementation of this reform in different kibbutzim. We measure attitudes towards a market economy, capitalism, and socialism in surveys one of us (M. Palgi) has conducted annually over the past 25 years. The reform led to increased support of free-market policies such as full privatization and differential wages. It decreased support of socialist policies such as the joint ownership of production means and the Marxist principle from the ability to needs. Simultaneously, the reform also increased support for the safety net to support weak members through mutual assurance. These effects appear to be driven by an increase in living standards and work ethics that resulted from the reform. To study behavior associated with the attitudes we study, we document that the reform led to a shift in political preferences, resulting in a decreased support to left-wing political parties and increased support for center parties in national elections. Overall, we conclude that introducing market-based wages led to a shift in attitudes towards a market economy with compassion, revealing a change from their traditional democratic socialist model to a social democratic model.

The title and abstract of Sarthak's talk are:

Title: The effect of increasing academic competition on student welfare

Abstract: The college admissions competition is arguably the most high-stakes contest in the young person’s life. Moreover, this competition usually takes the form of a rank order contest, which are characterised by the arms race phenomenon. In such settings, the precise mechanism through which students are assigned available college seats have important implications for the choice of pre-college effort, and eventually, for the mental health of college aspirants. I study the case of the 2008 expansion in affirmative action policy in India that reserved 27% of all seats in higher education for students belonging to a particular caste group. Using nationally representative data, I analyse the potential effects of this policy on chosen levels of pre-college year of schooling across different social groups, and on the count of suicides “due to failure in examinations” between 2001-2019.

Economic History of Developing Regions Virtual Seminar

In cooperation with Economic History of Developing Regions.

If you would like to be on the email list, please email J.Fenske@warwick.ac.uk.

Paper to be advised.

Ivan is presenting the following papers:

Larsen and Thorsrud (2019), The value of news for economic developments, Journal of Econometrics.

Larsen , Thorsrud and Zhulanova (2021), News-driven inflation expectations and information rigidities, Journal of Monetary Economics.

Title: The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation

CAGE lunchtime chat: Untangling the Budget

CAGE will be hosting a lunchtime chat to provide an opportunity to discuss what the Chancellor’s Budget actually means.

Dr Arun Advani, CAGE Impact Director, and Dennis Novy, CAGE Associate, will be speaking.

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/92586736133?pwd=UjZpL2tlSGlaaDBIOEIwdW80TVljQT09

Meeting ID: 925 8673 6133 Passcode: 281202

We have a limited number of slots for one-on-one meetings, which you can sign up using the following link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aKL06L-18ptjGVGAgwSgEaCJYvEasIT3KTHgzTBa4l0/edit?usp=sharing

Seema will present: Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question women's agency index

The Title of Song Yuan's presentation is Reallocation and Assets of Bureaucrats : Evidence from India (Amit Chaudhary and Song Yuan)

Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will be presenting The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics (with Samuel Engle, Jussi Keppo, Marianna Kudlyak, Elena Quercioli and Andrea Wilson)

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

Fuller details to be advised.

Bogdan presentation titled Policy intervention and the signal value of prices under rational inattention.

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

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

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).

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

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.