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Thu 3 Oct, '24
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PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 7 Oct, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Wayne Gao (UPenn)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Tue 8 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Max Posch (Exeter)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 10 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Bernardo Silveira (UCLA)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 14 Oct, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Eleanora Guarnieri (Bristol)
S2.79

Title: Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats)

Nearly half of all known languages in the world are under threat of extinction or are already extinct. What are the determinants of language extinction? In this paper, we uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its language’s risk of extinction: languages from more gender-equal societies face a higher likelihood of extinction compared to those from male-dominant societies. We measure language status and male-dominance using the Ethnologue and the Male Dominance Index (Guarnieri and Tur-Prats, 2023), respectively, for a sample of 4,763 languages in 172 countries. Our results show that the negative relationship between male dominance and language extinction holds even after accounting for fundamental determinants of economic development and societal collapse at the language-group level, such as geography, conflict exposure, climate variability, and historical factors, as well as after the inclusion of country fixed effects. We then investigate the impact of inter-group relationships in the context of colonialism by relating each indigenous group to its colonizer in a dyadic setting. We find that societies with more gender-equal norms than those of their colonizers are significantly more prone to language extinction. Cultural distance in gender norms from the colonizer is a stronger predictor of language extinction than the characteristics of either the colonizer or the indigenous group itself.

Tue 15 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Mariaflavia Harari (UPenn)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 17 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Volha Charnysh (MIT)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Mon 21 Oct, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Tue 22 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Arold Benjamin Wilhelm
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 23 Oct, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Philippe Jehiel (UCL)
S2.79
Thu 24 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - to be advised.
S2.79
Thu 24 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Seminar - Joan Monras (UPF)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Mon 28 Oct, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Guillaume Blanc (Manchester)
S2.79

Title: Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg)

We argue that societies with higher fertility experience increased levels of emigration. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility created a large reservoir of surplus labor that could find better opportunities in the New World. We denote such migrations, from labor-abundant to land-abundant regions, as Malthusian migrations. Our results hold in a variety of datasets and specifications, across countries, regions, individuals, and periods. Using linguistic distance from French and twin births as instruments for fertility in crowdsourced genealogical data, we estimate a large effect of fertility on out-migration. Within households, later born children were more likely to migrate as fertility increased, particularly in regions with egalitarian inheritance. We develop a Malthusian model allowing for emigration as a way to escape population pressures, alleviating the negative effects of high fertility and contributing to the emergence of modern economic growth.

 

Tue 29 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Abhijeet Singh (HHS).
S2.79

Title to be advised

Wed 30 Oct, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Joel Flynn (Yale)
S2.79

Title: Optimally Coarse Contracts (joint work with Roberto Corrao and Karthik Sastry).

Thu 31 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - to be advised.
S2.79
Tue 5 Nov, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Jacob Moscana (MIT)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Wed 6 Nov, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Maren Vairo (Wharton)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 7 Nov, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Ferenc Szucs
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 11 Nov, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Matthias Schief (OECD)
S2.79
Tue 12 Nov, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Ruben Durante (NUS)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Wed 13 Nov, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Gabriel Carroll (Toronto)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 14 Nov, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Austin L Wright (Chicago)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 14 Nov, '24
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Macro/International Seminar - Riccardo Trezzi (Geneva)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 14 Nov, '24
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QAPEC Seminar - David Levine (Royal Holloway UoL)
TBA

Title to be advised.

Mon 18 Nov, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsubashi)
S2.79

Title: Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms

Authors: Chiaki Moriguchi, Yusuke Narita, Mari Tanaka
Abstract: What happens if selective colleges change their admission policies? We study this question by analyzing the world's first implementation of nationally centralized meritocratic admissions in the early twentieth century. We find a persistent meritocracy-equity tradeoff. Compared to the decentralized system, the centralized system admitted more high-achievers and produced more occupational elites (such as top income earners) decades later in the labor market. This gain came at a distributional cost, however. Meritocratic centralization also increased the number of urban-born elites relative to rural-born ones, undermining equal access to higher education and career advancement.

Mon 18 Nov, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Kevin Dano (Princeton)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Tue 19 Nov, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Evan Rose (Chicago)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Wed 20 Nov, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Florian Brandl (Bonn)
S2.79

Title: The Social Learning Barrier

Abstract: We consider long-lived agents who interact repeatedly in a social network. In each period, each agent learns about an unknown state by observing a private signal and her neighbors’ actions in the previous period before taking an action herself. Our main result shows that the learning rate of the slowest learning agent is bounded independently of the network size and structure and the agents’ strategies. This extends recent findings on equilibrium learning by demonstrating that the limitation stems from an inherent tradeoff between optimal action choices and information revelation, rather than strategic considerations. We complement this result by showing that a social planner can design strategies for which each agent learns faster than an isolated individual, provided the network is sufficiently large and strongly connected.

Link: http://brandlf.com/docs/network-learning.pdf

Thu 21 Nov, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Hunter Rendleman (Harvard)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

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