Applied Microeconomics Seminar (AMiS)

This seminar series covers research topics in empirical microeconomics, including (but not restricted to) development economics, political economy, labor economics, and urban economics. Seminar organizers are Samuel Bentolila, Diego Puga and Tom Zohar.

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First term

19 September 2024

13:30

Nuria Rodriguez Planas (City University of New York), Motherhood and Domestic Violence: A Longitudinal Study Using Population-Wide Administrative Data (joint with Sanna Bergvall).

24 September 2024

13:30

Dean Yang (University of Michigan), War Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in India (joint with Aneesha Parvathaneni).

26 September 2024

13:30

Carlos Sanz (Banco de España), Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment (joint with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde).

31 October 2024

13:30

joint MadMac - Elizabeth Caucutt (Western University), Child skill production: Accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments (joint with Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins and Youngmin Park).

6 November 2024

13:30

Joan Monrás (CEMFI), Floating Population: Migration with(out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity (joint with Clément Imbert, Marlon Seror, and Yanos Zylberberg).

8 November 2024

13:30

Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario), Wage Dynamics and Returns to Unobserved Skill (joint with Youngmin Park and Youngki Shin).

21 November 2024

13:30

Ana Costa-Ramón (University of Zurich), (Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply (joint with Ursina Schaede, Michaela Slotwinski, and Anne Ardila Brenøe).

28 November 2024

13:30

Andrea Weber (Central European University), Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament (joint with Andre Diegmann and Laura Pohlan).

Second term

23 January 2025

13:30

Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania), Detecting traffic bottlenecks: Evidence from Manila (joint with Jonathan Hall y Yi Jiang).

13 February 2025

13:30

Jean-William Laliberte (University of Calgary), TBA.

20 February 2025

13:30

Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University), TBA.

6 March 2025

13:30

Camille Landais (LSE), TBA.

25 March 2025

13:30

joint MadMac - Alessandra Voena (Stanford University), TBA.

27 March 2025

13:30

Lu Han (Wisconsin School of Business), TBA.

Third term

10 April 2025

13:30

Liz Ananat (Columbia University), TBA.

29 May 2025

13:30

Mathilde Muñoz (UC Berkeley), TBA.

5 June 2025

13:30

Nina Buchmann (Yale University), TBA.

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