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Department of Economics

Applied Economics Research Seminar Series

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Meet leading scholars from the field of applied economics

The Applied Economics Research Seminar Series showcases the latest thinking in applied economics.

Our Applied Economics Seminar Series aims to address some important questions in empirical economics. These talks will be delivered by scholars who bring together a wide array of expertise on issues affecting social and private behaviour. In particular, this series focuses on aspects such as supply and demand of labour services, distribution of income, human capital, labour mobility, productivity and technology, applied and policy issues in development, family, health, demographics, cities and regions.

This seminar series will normally be held on campus on Thursday afternoons at 2pm, from October through to April, but please check individual seminar events for finalised times and dates. This is an open seminar series and all levels of study and members of the public are welcome. In order to reserve your place, please contact our seminar organisers.

Upcoming seminars

Upcoming seminars will be added below when available.

Date	Seminar Title and Speaker
1 May 2025	Child skill production: Accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments by Lance Lochner
8 May 2025	Marta Santamaria
22 May 2025	Weathering Poverty by Clare Balboni
29 May 2025	Enrico Moretti

Seminar Organisers

Shunsuke Tsuda

Seminar Organiser,, Department of Economics

Dr Catherine Van Der List

Seminar Organiser, Department of Economics

Previous Seminars in the Applied Economics Research Series

Spring 2025

Seminar Title and Speaker

The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers by Silvia Vannutelli

Intergenerational mobility and assortative mating in the US by Jan Stuhler

Moving to Cleaner Skyes: Age-Specific Effects of Exposure to Pollution on Health and Human Capital by Aline Bütikofer

Sick of becoming a parent: The child penalty on mental ill-health by Erik Grönqvist

Autumn 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of Female Representation in Top Economic Journals by Patricia Funk

Accounting for Black-White wealth gaps: Earnings, demographics, and rates of return. by John Jones

Parental Income in the Labor Market by Jean-William P. Laliberté

Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers by Ling Zhong

The Impact of Unions on Nonunion Wage Setting: Threats and Bargaining by David Green

College, cognitive ability, and socioeconomic disadvantage: policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004 by Andrea Ichino

Summer 2024

Seminar Title and Speaker

Automation and Immigrants: Evidence from Local Labour Markets. by Anand Chopra

The Political Economy of Laws to ‘Protect’ Women by Matthias Doepke

Urbanisation and urban divergence: France 1760 – 2020 by Gilles Duranton

Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump’s Trade War by Dave Donaldson

Alberto Bisin

(Don't) Take it Easy: Which Job Offers Get Rejected and Why? by Jason Sockin

Spring 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Government Contracting and Living Wages > Minimum Wages by Nikhil Datta

Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs by Virginia Minni

Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective by Heitor Pellegrina

GDP or Life? Promotion Incentives of City Leaders and Workplace Accidents by Zihan Hu

Autumn 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

An empirical model of matching job applicants to vacancies by Robert Miller

Beyond the Boundaries: Firm-to-Firm Connections in a Frictional Labor Market by Oskar Nordstrom

Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers by Ian Burn

Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India by Alex Armand

The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Adolescents’ Mental Health by Ana Costa-Ramón

Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children by Ludovica Gazzè

Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes by Han Ye

Have Preferences Become More Similar Worldwide? by Uwe Sunde

The Labor Market Consequences of Living in Social Housing by Wolfgang Dauth

Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament by Andrea Weber

Summer 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent by Fabian Waldinger

Autumn 2022

Seminar title and Speaker

School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization by David Schönholzer

Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning by Laia Navarro-Sola

How Do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers by Damon Clark

Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Lifecycle Perspective by Eric French

Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era by Bhashkar Mazumder

Designing Cash Transfers in the Presence of Children’s Human Capital Formation by Joseph Mullins

House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling by Clara Martinez Toledano

The Demand Side of Africa's Demographic Transition: Desired Fertility, Wealth, and Jobs by Céline Zipfel

Prospering through Prospera: A Dynamic Model of CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico by Weilong Zhang

Fabian Lange

Summer 2022

Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe by Andrea Tesei
Arpanet and the reorganization of science by Christian Fons-Rosen
First generation elite: the role of school networks by Sarah Cattan

Spring 2022

Germs in the Family: The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread by Hannes Schwandt
Too Constrained to Grow. Analysis of Firms’ Response to the Alleviation of Skill Shortages by Sara Signorelli
Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion by Paolo Pinotti
The Effects of Salary Benchmarking by Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Pandemic Pressures and Public Health Care: Evidence from England by Thiemo Fetzner
Selection in Surveys by Magne Mogstad
Pandemic Shock and Economic Divergence: Political Economy Before and After the Black Death by Jeremiah Dittmar
Motherhood and the cost of interruptions during job search by Arnaud Phillipe
Displacement Effects in Manufacturing by Ines Helm

Autumn 2021

Household Labour Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform by Andrew Shephard

Sheepskin Effects and Wage-Setting Behavior: Evidence from Mozambique by David Jaeger

Training, Productivity and Wages by Dean Hyslop

The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES by Silvia H Barcellos

How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income by Michael Graber

As Long as They Are Cheap: Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Migrant Workers by Paolo Falco

Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size by Mark Rosenzweig

Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality by Michael J Böhm

Wage Posting vs. Wage Bargaining by Thomas Le Barbanchon

Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India by Irma Clots-Figueras

Politicians' Neighborhoods: Where do they live and does it matter? by Johanna Rickne

Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality between Workplaces by Olle Folke

Selection in Surveys by Magne Mogstad

Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany by Sebastian Findeisen

Spring 2021

Serial Entrepreneurship in China by Kjetil Storesletten on Thursday 25th March at 4pm (GMT)

Autumn 2020

With a Little Help: A Behavioural Intervention to Enhance Equity in Universal Childcare Take-Up by Henning Hermes on Thursday 8 October at 1pm (BST)

The Making of Social Democracy. The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 School Reform by Kjell Salavanes on Thursday 22nd October at 1pm (BST)