Departmental Seminars

Fall Term 2023

Tessa Conroy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Childcare Availability and Women’s Earnings in the U.S.
October 5th 2023 at 15:00, Zoom (on-line)

Thomas Siedler (Potsdam University)
A Library in the Palm of your Hand? A Reading Comprehension Intervention with Low-Income Children
October 19th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Cevat Giray Aksoy (EBRD and King's College London)
Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants
October 26th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)
From Paris with Love: Migration and the diffusion of modern fertility in Europe
November 2nd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The Persistence of Urban Decline: Evidence from France's Largest Coal Basin
November 6th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Gernot Muller (University of Tübingen)
The External Costs of War
November 9th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School)
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
November 16th 2023 at 15:00, Zoom (on-line)

Elisabetta Aurino (Universitat de Barcelona)
A ‘smart buy' for all? Unequal consequences of a messaging program for child education
November 23rd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Libertad Gonzalez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Partisan Abortions
November 30th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Spring Term 2023

Arno J. Van der Vlist (University of Groningen)
Public housing, waiting lists and lotteries: Quasi-natural experimental evidence from Amsterdam
February 2nd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Francesca Carta (Bank of Italy)
Minimum Income and Household Labour Supply
February 9th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI)
Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalitie
February 16th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute)
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
February 23rd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidasd de Los Andes)
Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire
March 2nd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Miren Lafourcade (University Paris-Saclay)
Place-Based Policies: Opportunity for Deprived Schools or Zone-and-Shame Effect?
March 9th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Francesco Amodio (McGill University)
Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development
March 16th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Pamela Campa (SITE - Stockholm School of Economics)
Gender and political coalitions
March 23rd 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Rémi Bazillier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Minimum Wages in Africa
April 13th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary, London)
Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics
April 20th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Mounir Karadja (Uppsala University)
City of My Dreams: Migration, Marriage, and Mobility in the Industrial Revolution
April 27th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Sonja Settele (University of Copenhagen)
Health or Health Care? What drives income-related differences in life expectancy in an equal access health care system?
May 4th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Thierry Blayac (Univeristé de Montpellier)
Carpooling pricing strategies in France: The driver versus the platform
May 11th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Enrico Cantoni (University of Bologna)
Where You Grow Up Shapes Your Political Behavior: Evidence from Childhood Moves
May 18th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin)
Cold Case: Death Investigations, Incentives and the Under-Reporting of Police Homicides
May 25th 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Sandy Dall'Erba    (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Instrumental variable network difference-in-differences (IV-NDID) estimator: model and application
June 1st 2023 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Fall Term 2022

Catalina Franco (Norwegian School of Economics)
Strategic Decisions Have “Major” Consequences:  Gender Differences in College Major Choices
October 6th 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain)
Dual returns to experience
October 13th 2022 at 15:00, online 

Railnald Borck (University of Potsdam)
Urban pollution: A global perspective
October 20th 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus.

Isabela Manelici (London School of Economics)
Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica
October 27th 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Mattia Borsati (University of Barcelona)
Structural change and commuting flows: evidence from Italy
November 3rd at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Almudena Sevilla (Queen Mary, University of London)
The gender Gap in Student Performance: The Role of Test-taking Environmental
November 17th 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Melanie Krausse (Leipzig University)
The Emperor's Geography-City Locations, Nature, and Institutional Optimization
November 24th 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Maria Börjesson (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute: VTI)
How expansion of road infrastructure and public transport provision impacts on car use?
December 1st 2022 at 15:00, Sala de Graus

Applied Lunch
Ponent    Filipo Tassiari
PhD student UB
Títol:    “Low emission zones and traffic congestion: evidence from Madrid Central”
Dia i hora:    10 de febrer de 2022, a les 13.30 hores
Lloc:    Sala de Graus
 

Applied Lunch
Ponent    Marc Rivas
PhD UAB
Títol:    “Un indicador integral para los sistemas agroalimentarios: La Soberanía Alimentaria como punto de partida" 
Dia i hora:    17 de febrer de 2022, a les 13.30 hores
Lloc:    Sala de Graus
 

Applied Lunch
Ponent    Filipo Tassiari
PhD student UB
Títol:    “Low emission zones and traffic congestion: evidence from Madrid Central” 
Dia i hora:     10 de febrer de 2022, a les 13.30 hores
Lloc:     Sala de Graus 
      
Applied Lunch
Ponent    Marc Rivas
PhD UAB
Títol    “Un indicador integral para los sistemas agroalimentarios: La Soberanía Alimentaria como punto de partida" 
Dia i hora     17 de febrer de 2022, a les 13.30 hores
Lloc     Sala de Graus 
      
Applied Lunch
Ponent    Elisa Failache
PhD UAB
Títol    “Exposure to High-Speed Internet and Early Childhood Development" (with Karina Colombo)
Dia i hora     24 de febrer de 2022, a les 13.30 hores
Lloc     Sala de Graus 
      
Departmental Seminar
Ponent    Matilde Pinto Machado
UC3M
Títol    “Teen childbearing in Latin America: the mother-daughter link" (with Ricardo Mora (uc3m) and Karen Olivo)
Dia i hora     3 de març de 2022, a les 15.00 hores
On line via Zoom
      
Departmental Seminar
Ponent    Massimo Morelli
Università Bocconi Milano
Títol    “TBA” 
Dia i hora     10 de març de 2022, a les 15.00 hores
Lloc     Sala de Graus 
      
Departmental Seminar
Ponent    Miriam Wüst
University of Copenhagen
Títol    “The long-run effects of longer follow-up. Evidence on the importance of childhood health interventions from a historical trial" (with Jenifer L. Baker, Lise G. Bjerregaard, Christian M. Dahl, Torben S. D. Johansen, Emil Nørmark Sørensen)
Dia i hora     17 de març de 2022, a les 15.00 hores
On line via Zoom

Ponent: Hugo Silva
Procedència: Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
Títol: "The Impact of Commuter Market Access on a City's Structural Density: Evidence from a Substantial Investment in Transport Infrastructure"
Dia: 24 de març de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus 

Ponent: Clara Martínez Toledano
Procedència: Imperial College London
Títol: "Wealth Inequality in Europe and the US: Understanding the Determinants"
Dia: 31 de març de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus

Ponent: Uwe Sunde
Procedència: University of Munich
Títol: "TBA"
Dia: 7 d´abril de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus 

Ponent: Tommaso Reggiani
Procedència: Cardiff University
Títol: "TBA"
Dia: 21 d´abril de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus

Ponent: Felipe Carozzi
Procedència: LSE
Títol: "TBA"
Dia: 28 d´abril de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus

Ponent: Jan Rouwendal
Procedència: VU
Títol: "TBA"
Dia: 5 de maig de 2022
Hora: 15.00 hores
Lloc: B3/012 Sala de Graus