2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003
First term
31 October 2008:
Begoña Alvarez (Universidad de Vigo), Exploiting subjective information to understand the demand for health care in poor children (joint with Marcos Vera-Hernández).
7 November 2008:
Sergi Jimenez-Martín (UPF), Trade-off between formal and informal care in Spain (joint with Cristina Vilaplana Prieto).
24 November 2008:
Steven Stern (University of Virginia), Marriage, divorce, and asymmetric information (joint with Leora Friedberg).
5 December 2008:
Lidia Farré (Universidad de Alicante), The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes and its implications for female labor force participation (joint with Francis Vella).
Second term
13 March 2009:
Marta Reynal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Political leaders, development and conflict (joint with Tim Besley and Jose G.Montalvo).
Third term
22 April 2009:
Stephen Ryan (MIT), Monitoring works: getting teachers to go to school (joint with Esther Duflo and Rema Hanna).
26 May 2009:
Dan Ackerberg (UCLA), The buy-it-now option, risk aversion, and impatience in an empirical model of eBay bidding (joint with Keisuke Hirano and Quazi Shahriar).
26 June 2009:
Aitor Lacuesta (Banco de España), Micro-evidence of the brain gain hypothesis: The case of Cape Verde (joint with Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente).
First term
5 October 2007:
Claudia Olivetti (Boston University), Gender roles and technological progress (joint with Stefania Albanesi).
19 October 2007:
Jose V. Rodriguez-Mora (University of Southampton), Intergenerational mobility and the informative content of surnames (joint with Maia Guell ).
23 October 2007:
Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario), The changing role of family income and ability in determining educational achievement (joint with Philippe Belley).
23 November 2007:
Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), The determinants of pricing in pharmaceuticals: Are U.S. prices really higher than those of Canada? (joint with Sergi Jiménez-Martín).
12 December 2007:
Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Spring cleaning: Rural water impacts, valuation, and institutions (joint with Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel and Alix Peterson Zwane).
Second term
18 January 2008:
Irma Clots (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), The effect of language at school on identity and political outlooks .
28 March 2008:
Lola Collado (Universidad de Alicante), Social mobility in Spain since the late 19th century .
Third term
18 April 2008:
Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labour supply? (joint with Christian Dustmann).
30 May 2008:
Pedro Portugal (Bank of Portugal), Increasing the legal retirement age: The impact on wages, worker flows and firm performance (joint with Alvaro A. Novo).
30 June 2008:
Hugo Benítez-Silva (SUNY-Stony Brook and IAE-Barcelona), Retirement and social security reform expectations: A solution to the new early retirement puzzle (joint with Debra S. Dwyer, Frank Heiland and Warren C. Sanderson).
First term
29 September 2006:
Marco Francesconi (University of Essex), Love at first sight: Evidence on mate selection from speed dating (joint with Michèle Belot).
3 November 2006:
Julio Cáceres (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Divorce laws impacts on mothers and children well-being .
24 November 2006:
Daniel Miles (Universidad de Vigo), Can we teach civic attitudes?
Second term
26 January 2007:
Alfonso Sánchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Social security and the search behaviour of workers approaching retirement (joint with J. Ignacio García Pérez).
2 February 2007:
Paul Devereux (University College Dublin), Older and wiser? The effects of birth order and family size on IQ (joint with Sandra E. Black and Kjell G. Salvanes).
2 March 2007:
Ghazala Azmat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra ), Privatization, competition and the decline of workers share in GDP: A cross-country analysis of the network industries (joint with Alan Manning and John Van Reenen).
23 March 2007:
Rocío Sánchez Mangas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Balancing family and work: the effect of cash benefits for working mothers (joint with Virginia Sánchez Marcos).
Third term
13 April 2007:
Ernesto Villanueva (Banco de España), The effects of the introduction of tax incentives on retirement savings (joint with Juan Ayuso and Juan F. Jimeno).
23 April 2007:
Guglielmo Weber (University of Padova and IFS), How large is the retirement consumption drop in Italy? (joint with Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini and Enrico Rettore).
4 May 2007:
Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam), Estimates of the effect of parents schooling on childrens schooling using censored and uncensored samples .
8 June 2007:
1 Day PEW (CEMFI), PEW conference .
First Term
21 October 2005:
Tommaso Nannicini (EUI), Sensitivity of matching estimators to
unconfoundedness. An application to the effect of temporary
work on future employment
4 November 2005:
Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Do men and women-economists choose the same
research fields?: Evidence from top-50 departments
17 November 2005:
Joe Altonji (Yale University), Modeling Earnings
Dynamics.
2 December 2005:
Nuria Rodriguez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Evaluating the effectiveness of active labor market
programs in Romania .
Second Term
27 January 2006:
Robert Breunig (Australian National University), A couples-based approach to the problem of
workless families
17 February 2006:
Marcos Vera (UCL), Medium- and long run effects of nutrition and
child care: Evaluation of a community nursery programme in
rural Colombia
10 March 2006:
Manuel F. Bagues (Univerdad Carlos III de Madrid), What determines success in public exams?
Third Term
12 May 2006:
Laura Crespo Azofra (Universidad de Alicante -
CEMFI), Parental care-giving and employment status of
European mid-life women
26 May 2006:
Anna Sanz de Galdeano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Moral hazard and the demand for health
services: A matching estimator approach
2 June 2006:
Ernesto Villanueva (Banco de España), Does limited access to mortgage debt explain
why young adults live with their parents?
First Term
Sara de la Rica (Universidad del País Vasco),
The effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages: Evidence
from matched employer-employee data
10 December 2004:
Ernesto Villanueva (UPF), Intervivos transfers and bequests
in three OECD countries.
Second Term
Thierry Magnac (Universitè de Toulouse), Formal
and informal risk sharing in LDCs: Theory and empirical evidence
11 March 2005:
Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Single
mothers and incentives to work: The French experience .
17 March 2005:
Jishnu Das (The World Bank), Teacher
shocks and student learning: Evidence from Zambia , (joint with
Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana and Pramila Krishnan) .
Third Term
Vicente Cuñat (UPF), Executive
compensation and competition in the banking and financial sectors
22 April 2005:
Barbara Petrongolo (LSE), Unequal
pay or unequal employment: A cross-country analysis of gender gaps (joint with Claudia Olivetti).
20 May 2005:
José Ignacio García Pérez (Centro de Estudios
Andaluces and Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Unit
labour costs and the use of permanent contracts across Spanish regions:
Do regional wage subsidies work?
17 June 2005:
PEW Day-Conference - Program
and Participant
list .
First Term
15 November 2002:
Juan F. Jimeno (Universidad de Alcalá, FEDEA, CEPR and IZA),
Employment consequences
of restrictive permanent contracts: Evidence from Spanish labor market
reforms (joint with Adriana Kugler and Virginia Hernanz).
29 November 2002:
F. Alfonso Arellano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Evaluación de programas de formación ocupacional: El caso de España
Second Term
17 January 2003:
Begoña Cueto (Universidad de Oviedo), Una
evaluación comprehensiva de las subvenciones al autoempleo
14 February 2003:
Vincenzo Andrietti (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid),
Evaluating pension portability peforms. The tax reform act of 1986
as a natural experiment .
28 February 2003:
Adriana Kugler (Universitat Pompeu Fabra),
Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for
Soviet inmigrant physicians in Israel (joint with R. Sauer).
4 March 2003:
Bruno Crépon (CREST),
Evaluation of the effects of payroll tax subsidies for low wage
workers on firms level decisions .
Third Term
24 April 2003:
Darren Lubotsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The labor market
effects of welfare reform
7 May 2003:
Anna Sanz de Galdeano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid),
Health insurance and job mobility: Evidence from Clinton´s second
mandate .
4 June 2003:
Rubén Hernández-Murillo (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis),
Racial
profiling or racist policing?: Testing in aggregated data
