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.

The seminar will take place on MS Teams

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Title of paper to be advised.

This seminar is via Zoom, details to follow.

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.

This seminar is via Zoom, details to follow.

Title “Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”

 Organisers: Bishnupriya Gupta & Claudia Rei

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).

Title of paper to be advised.

This seminar is via Zoom, details to follow.

Ingrid Kvangraven (King's College London)

Carolina Alves (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Ramin Nassehi (UCL)

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Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes 

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

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 (2021-22): Dr Subhasish Dey

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

This seminar is via MS Teams

Title of paper to be advised.

This seminar is via Zoom, details to follow.

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 to be advised.

Seminar organisers: Manuel Bagues & Ludovica Gazze

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

Ahmed Saade (King's College London)
Aoife Horan (UCL)
Eman Abdulla (Warwick)
Stefano Cellini (Surrey)

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Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

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

This seminar is via Zoom, details to follow.

Fuller details on DR@W Forum https://warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/behaviour-brain-society/draw/forum/

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

Title to be advised.

Seminar organisers: Manuel Bagues & Ludovica Gazze

Title of paper: Market-Based Mechanisms (with Francisco Poggi)

Organiser: Dr Subhasish Dey

NSS based study is the title of the talk.

1-1:30pm - Steve Proud
1:30-2pm - Guglielmo Volpe.

The seminar will take place on MS Teams

The POLECON webinar takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at 3 pm (UK time).

This series of webinars is organised by the CEPR Political Economy Group together with the Research and Policy Network on Populism and Research and Policy Network on Conflict. REGISTER

Steven Callander (Stanford University) will present a paper titled: Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach.
The paper is co-authored with Dana Foarta (Stanford University) and Takuo Sugaya (Stanford University).
The session will be moderated by Helios Herrera (University of Warick and CEPR).

Title: Experience of social mobility and support for redistribution: Beating the odds or blaming the system?

This is via Zoom link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/84025020086?pwd=QnVmalZPR3ZmWWxiZVdyN1k2NWxKUT09