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), Urbanization and urban divergence: France 1760 - 2020 (joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Clément Gorin, and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud).

5 February 2025	13:30	Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto), The Opioid Epidemic: Causes and Consequences (joint with Victoria Barone).

6 February 2025	13:30	joint MadMac - Milagros Paniagua (Ministerio de Hacienda, AEAT), Distributional impact assessment at the Spanish Tax Agency using big data and artificial intelligence.

13 February 2025	13:30	Jean-William Laliberté (University of Calgary), Parental Income in the Labor Market.

27 February 2025	13:30	David Green (University of British Columbia), The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution (joint with Pierre Brochu, Thomas Lemieux, and James Townsend).

6 March 2025	13:30	CANCELLED Camille Landais (LSE), Gender Without Kids.

27 March 2025	13:30	Lu Han (Wisconsin School of Business), Renter Mobility and Housing Affordability.

Third term
22 May 2025	13:30	Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), How Does Political Affiliation Affect Economic Expectations? (joint with Olivier Armantier, Gizem Kosar and Wilbert van der Klaauw).

29 May 2025	13:30	Jeffrey Liebman (Harvard Kennedy School), The Chelsea Eats Program: Experimental Impacts.

5 June 2025	13:30	Nina Buchmann (Yale University), Paternalistic Discrimination (joint with Carl Meyer and Colin D. Sullivan).

19 June 2025	13:30	Luis Armona (Harvard Kennedy School), TBA.

26 June 2025	13:30	David Martínez-Miera (UC3M), What Divides Us Can Kill Us: Political Polarization, Human Capital Allocation and Hospital Outcomes (joint with Carlos Sunyer).