Econometrics & Applied Micro Seminars

Our seminars are held by world-famous scholars from around the globe

Econometrics/Applied Micro seminars take place on Mondays from 11:00 to 12:15, unless otherwise specified.

Term 1

15 November 2024 - Extra Session from 9:30 to 10:45
Presenter: Yiru Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "Phillips Curve across Space and Time"
18 November 2024
Presenter: Laura Panza (University of Melbourne)
Title: "Nation-building and mass migration: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine)"
25 November 2024
Presenter: Pietro Biroli (Bologna University)
Title: "Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not: Online Role Model Mentoring and Students’ Aspirations"
02 December 2024
Presenter: Weinstein Russell Michael (University of Illinois)
Title: "Workhorses of Opportunity”: Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility

Term 2

10 January 2025 - Extra Session from 9:15 to 10:45
Presenter: Steve Pischke (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Title: "Differences-in-differences for the 2020s"
20 January 2025
Presenter: Nicola Fontana (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: "When the Dictator is in Town"
17 February 2025
Presenter: Giacomo De Giorgi (Université de Genève)
Title: "Farming, Non-Farm Enterprises, and Migration under Incomplete Markets"
24 February 2025
Presenter: Kevin Munger (European University Institute)
Title: "Bounding Knowledge Decay From Agnostic Temporal Generalization"
17 March 2025
Presenter: Alessandra Voena (Standford University)
Title: "How Are Gender Norms Perceived?"
24 March 2025
Presenter: Toru Kitagawa (Brown University)
Title: "Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization"

Term 3

07 April 2025
Presenter: Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
14 April 2025 - Extra Session
Presenter: Linbo Wang (University of Toronto)
28 April 2025
Presenter: Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
12 May 2025
Presenter: Michele Giannola (University of Naples Federico II)
Title: The Effect of Center-Based Early Education on Disadvantaged Children’s Developmental Trajectories: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
02 June 2025
Presenter: Mara Squicciarini (Università Luigi Bocconi)
09 June 2025
Presenter: Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkley)

Term 1

18 September 2023
Presenter: Till Von Wachter (UCLA)
Title: "UI Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002-2020"
2 October 2023
Presenter: Matthijs Oosterveen (University of Lisbon)
Title: "The Quality of School Track Assignment Decisions by Teachers"
16 October 2023
Presenter: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)
Title: "Balancing Unobservables: Large-Sample Properties of the Synthetic Control Algorithm"
23 October 2023
Presenter: Erika Deserranno (Università Bocconi)
Title: "Gender Disparities in the Impact of Minimum Wage on Similarly Situated Workers"
6 November 2023
Presenter: Tommaso Nannicini (EUI - School of Transnational Governance)
Title: "Fighting Populism on Its Own Turf: Experimental Evidence"
4 December 2023
Presenter: Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
Title: "The right timing matters: sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills"

Term 2

8 January 2024
Presenter: Davide Viviano (Harvard University)
Title: "On the design of network experiments"
29 January 2024
Presenter: Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz)
Title: "Diversity and discrimination in the classroom"
5 February 2024
Presenter: Marianna Brunetti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Title: "A further look at the gender gap in Italian academic careers"
19 February 2024
Presenter: Francesco Russo (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Title: "Cultural Doorways in the Barriers to Development"
26 February 2024
Presenter: Andrea Guariso (University of Milan-Bicocca)
Title: "Reducing child mortality in the last mile: lessons from Uganda"

Term 3

25 March 2024
Presenter: Bret McCully (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Title: "The Democratic Transition and Structural Transformation"
22 April 2024
Presenter: Fredrik Sävje (Yale University)
Title: "A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments"
6 May 2024
Presenter: Eric Auerbach (Northwestern University)
Title: "Identifying Socially Disruptive Policies"
27 May 2024
Presenter: Andrea Mercatanti (Università di Roma)
Title: "A Bayesian Model for Estimating Spillover Effects in Unconventional Monetary Policy"
3 June 2024
Presenter: Felix Weinhardt (European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder)
Title: "Separate housework spheres"

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