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08/05 9:45am-3:30pm: Computational History Workshop

Jane Snape — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:03:17 GMT

When: 9:45am - 3:30pm, Fri, 08 May '26

Where: Scarman Conference Centre (Space 43)

Date/Time: Friday 8th May 2026 - 9:45am to 3.30pm

Location: University of Warwick - Scarman Conference Centre (Room: Space 43)

Organised by: Mirko Draca (University of Warwick/CAGE)

Audience: Academics and Students (History and Economics in particular)

Join us to hear more about the launch of CAGE's new Computational History initiative, part of our latest round of ESRC funding. This programme has two central aims - harnessing the power of text data to open up new possibilities for historical research, and bringing together disciplines in a connected, organic way.

You'll also learn more about our major partnership with Living with Machines – the groundbreaking humanities research group based at the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute, led by Ruth Ahnert – and the opportunities this collaboration creates for future research.

There will be space to ask questions, connect with others working at the intersection of history and data, and explore how you might get involved.

Programme

Running order:

09:45 Arrival
09:55 Welcome from Mirko Draca (CAGE Centre Director)
10:00 Overview of Living with Machines (LwM) Project – Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London)
This paper will also cover two case studies on key work packages:
The Environmental Scan & Historical Language Models and ‘Atypical Animacy’
10:45 LwM and the Emergence of Computational Map Studies – Katherine McDonough (Lancaster University)
11:15 Coffee/Tea break
11:45 ‘Beyond the Tracks’ and LwM: People, place and railways – Joshua Rhodes (UCL)
12:15 Analysing Opposition to the New Poor Law Using Historical Newspapers – Eric Melander (University of Birmingham)
12:45 Lunch: Scarman Dining Room
13:45 Exploration & Exploitation in US Technological Change – Mirko Draca (University of Warwick/CAGE)
14:15 Quantifying Belief in God. The Long Run Decline of Sincere Faith in England 1300-1850 – Neil Cummins (LSE)
14:45 Coffee/Tea break
15:00 Multimodal LLMs for Historical Dataset Construction from Archival Image Scans: German Patents (1877-1918) – Niclas Grießhaber (University of Oxford)
15:30 Day ends

Registration: If you are interested in this event, please click the button below and fill out the registration form. We will get back to you to confirm your place as soon as possible.

Let us know at cage.centre@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window if you later discover you cannot attend so that your place can be offered to others.

08/05 10am-11am: Computational History Workshop

Jane Snape — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:02:52 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Fri, 08 May '26

11/05 2pm-3:30pm: Econometrics Seminar - Wendun Wang (EUR)

Jane Snape — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:20:13 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Mon, 11 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title: Recovering latent time-varying network in panel models

12/05 1pm-2pm: CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Johannes Brinkmann (PGR)

Jane Snape — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:32:52 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Tue, 12 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title to be advised.

12/05 2:15pm-3:30pm: Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Kelsey Jack (UC Berkeley)

Jane Snape — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:47:57 GMT

When: 2:15pm - 3:30pm, Tue, 12 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title: Health Insurance for Seasonal Savings: Evidence from Rural Côte d'Ivoire

Authors: Günther Fink, B. Kelsey Jack, Renate Strobl, Dao Daouda

Abstract: Households in low-income agricultural economies face large seasonal fluctuations in income and limited access to financial tools for smoothing consumption. In such settings, health insurance can serve not only as risk protection, but also as a state-contingent savings technology, transferring resources from high-income harvest periods to low-income lean periods. We study the rollout of Côte d'Ivoire's national health insurance scheme in a context with high morbidity, substantial out-of-pocket expenditures, and pronounced income seasonality---conditions under which the potential welfare gains from insurance are particularly large. Using a randomized subsidy design among 2,468 cocoa-farming households, we show that insurance demand is highly responsive to both price and cash-on-hand liquidity. Despite strong demand and actuarially favorable pricing, we find limited effects on health spending or consumption. We show that this disconnect arises from frictions in accessing benefits, including weak verification and reimbursement environments that limit providers' willingness to honor coverage without immediate proof. Our results highlight the importance of implementation, trust, and contract enforceability in determining the welfare impacts of social insurance.

13/05 4pm-5:30pm: CRETA Theory Seminar - Marilyn Pease (Indiana University)

Jane Snape — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:32:41 GMT

When: 4pm - 5:30pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Title: Follow the Leader? Coordination Motives in Sequential Information Acquisition (joint with Mark Whitmeyer)

14/05 11:15am-12:30pm: Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Francesco Trebbi (UoCalifornia, Berkeley)

Jane Snape — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:04:39 GMT

When: 11:15am - 12:30pm, Thu, 14 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title: Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in ElectionsLink opens in a new window (with Amanda de Albuquerque, Fred Finan, Anubhav Jha, and Laura Karpuska)

14/05 1pm-2pm: MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon)

Jane Snape — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:07:39 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Thu, 14 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title to be advised.

14/05 2pm-3:30pm: Macro/International Seminar - Olivia Bordeu (Berkeley)

Jane Snape — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:32:51 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Thu, 14 May '26

Where: S2.79

Title: Bank Branches and the Allocation of Capital across Cities (with Gustavo Gonzalez, Marcos Sora).

18/05 2pm-3:30pm: Econometrics Seminar - Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua)

Jane Snape — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:39:39 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Mon, 18 May '26

Where: S0.13

Title to be advised.

19/05 12pm-1pm: MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - Daniel Jaar (EUI)

Jane Snape — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:42:13 GMT

Jane Snape — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:37:07 GMT

When: 2pm - 3pm, Thu, 04 Jun '26

Where: S1.50

06/06 10am-11am: Economic Theory Workshop 2026

Jane Snape — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:25:55 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Sat, 06 Jun '26

The annual Economic Theory Workshop has been hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick for the last 13 years and is recognised as one of the top workshops in the world.

Date: Friday 5th June - Saturday 6th June

Location: Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick

This workshop provides the opportunity for leading Economic theorists to engage and discuss the latest ideas in economic theory and to foster collaborative research projects.

This event is open to Faculty members and MRes/PhD students from the Department of Economics.

Academic Lead: Professor Daniele Condorelli

Friday 30 May

09.00 - 10.00	Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv) Magical implementation.

Saturday 31st May

09.00 - 10.00	Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv) Magical implementation.

Registration

To book a place for this event, please complete the registration form. Places are limited so early booking is recommended and the registration form will close once this event has reached full capacity.

08/06 1pm-2pm: Economic History Seminar - Ferdinand Rauch (St Gallen)

Jane Snape — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:07:22 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Mon, 08 Jun '26

Where: S0.18

Title to be advised.