Further details to be advised.

This workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams

Title: “You and whose army? Institutional trust and the end of military draft in Europe. (Work in Progress)”, joint with Vincenzo Bove (Warwick) and Marco Giani (King's College).

Abstract: Some pundits and political leaders believe that the widening distance between the citizen and the state could be tackled by reintroducing military conscription. Our empirical analysis, however, shows that doing so would likely produce the opposite effect. We compare the attitudes of cohorts of militaries vs civilians across 15 European democracies and show that institutional trust is significantly higher in the latter group. To deal with selection bias, we exploit quasi-random variation of military conscription policies, and hold women (who are exempted from conscription) as a counterfactual for the attitudinal patterns captured by our RD estimates. Further analysis suggests that this result is consistent with a bottom-up ``group thinking'' mechanism, rather than with a top-down ``authoritarian legacy'' one.

Paper to be announced.

This Econometrics seminar is hosted by Bristol.

Title of talk: Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures, https://chenzi-xu.com/docs/reshaping_global_trade_Xu.pdf

Tradition and Mortality: Evidence from Twin Infanticide in Africa

Abstract: Mortality of twins relative to singletons is no greater today among African ethnicities that once practiced twin infanticide. We introduce data on historic twin infanticide and merge it with birth records from 23 African countries. We use the full sample, a border sample of adjacent societies with and without past twin infanticide, and a sample of twins. All three samples provide no evidence that past twin infanticide predicts greater differential twin mortality today. Twin infanticide and negative attitudes towards twins were suppressed by Africans, missionaries, and colonial governments. Where these channels were weak, we find evidence of greater twin mortality today.

Paper to be announced.

Two presentations - 30min each:

- Livia Silva-Paranhos (PGR) is presenting 'Global footprints of Monetary Policies', from Miranda-Agrippino, Nenova and Rey, 2020

- Riccardo Degasperi (PGR) is presenting 'Monetary Policy and its transmission in a globalized world', from Ca'Zorzi et al 2020

Kyle will be presenting paper titled Measuring the Effects of Firm Uncertainty on Economic Activity: New Evidence from One Million Documents

If you would like to meet Kyle, please contact Dennis Novy.

Title - Urban Public Works: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Simon Franklin)

Abstract: Public works are common anti-poverty policies around the developing world. They generate employment and build public infrastructure, and have direct effects on program beneficiaries as well as equilibrium effects, which affect the entire population. This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of an urban public works program, Ethiopia's PNSP. We take advantage of its random roll-out across neighborhoods of Addis-Ababa to show that the program increased local wages and improved local amenities. We then use unique data on city-wide commuting flows to calibrate a spatial equilibrium model and compute the welfare effects of the program on the poor.

Paper to be announced.

Edoardo and Zoe will be presenting the paper "Trade and labor market dynamics: General equilibrium analysis of the China trade shock". Caliendo, Dvorkin, and Parro. Econometrica 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA13758

Title: Mismatch Cycles

If you would like to meet with Ana, please sign up here

Marta will be presenting: Borders within Europe, with Jaume Ventura and Ugur Yesilbayraktar.

Title of the talk: Heterogeneous Production Functions and Panel Data

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Please only sign up for the slots allocated to Warwick.

Further details to be advised.

This workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams

Title: Political Representation of Immigrants in the UK

Abstract: I analyse how changes in the share of the commonwealth (CW) and non-commonwealth (NCW) immigrants in a constituency affect how members of parliament address them in the UK parliament. Since the birth of the modern Commonwealth of Nations in 1949, the immigrants from CW countries in the UK have a right-to-vote in the national elections while all other immigrants do not have this enfranchisement power. I find an increase in the share of CW immigrants to a constituency leads to MPs addressing immigrants in the parliament in positive sentiment. In contrast, an increase in the share of NCW immigrants leads to a decrease in the parliament days in which MPs discuss them. The political power of immigrants, election period, and party ideology does not explain these findings. I find an empowerment effect due to the enfranchisement best explains these differences. Using the European social survey, I find first-generation CW immigrants without UK nationality are 30% more likely to have taken a socio-political action (signing petition, boycotting products, etc.) as compared to a similar sample of NCW immigrants.

Paper to be announced.

Livia Silva Paranhos (30 mins)
Edoardo Tolva (30 mins)

A conversation with Antonio Mele (LSE), Denise Hawkes (Greenwich, RES), and Darshak Patel (Uni of Kentucky) on careers in Economics Education (Teaching-focussed at Warwick) in the UK and US. The panellists will bring their experience in this pathway, explain what this type of career entails, what they enjoy and what needs to be improved. We will discuss on the future of this pathway and answer attendees queries.

If you want to attend the event on Zoom, register here (please register by 30 Nov 2020)
You can also follow the event on YouTube 

Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes (in conjunction with CTaLE, UCL).

About the panel:

Denise Hawkes is Professor and Head of Department at the University of Greenwich. She is the chair of the Royal Economic Society Education and Training committee and was served as EdD Programme Leader from 2013-2018 and the Academic Head for Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer from 2017-2018 within the Centre for Doctoral Education at the UCL Institute of Education where she is currently Visiting Professor.

Antonio Mele is Associate Professorial Lecturer in Economics at LSE. He previously held positions at the University of Surrey and Nuffield College (Oxford). Antonio teaches Quantitative Methods

Darshak Patel is a Senior Lecturer of Economics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at The University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics. Darshak is a recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the College of Business and Global Affairs in 2015 at University of Tennessee Martin, a two time recipient of A Teacher Who Made a Difference in 2015 and 2017, a recipient of Gatton College’s Award for Teaching Excellence and Faculty of the Year award in 2019 and UK Alumni Association 2020 Great Teacher Award.

Paper to be announced.