Seminars
Seminars
Occasional Seminars Seminars of the Research Project “Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts”
"Practices Around Parenthood" at Campus Luigi Einaudi Chair: Manuela Naldini (DCPS, University of Turin) Sveva Magaraggia (Dept. of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Rome III) The crisis in young parents’ experience: new opportunities of cultural innovation? María José González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Men Anticipating Fatherhood in Spain Sonia Bertolini, Rosy…
Seminars in Politics and Society Livia Olah (Stockholm)
"Gender Equality Perceptions, Division of Paid And Unpaid Work, And Partnership Dissolution In Sweden" at Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of women and men has come to prefer gender…
Job Market Seminars Matija Jancec (University of Maryland)
"The Costs of Adapting to a New Cultural Environment: Examining Immigrants' Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Virginia)
"Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing." Download the paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323775
Job Market Seminars Philipp Tillman (Chicago University)
"Entry into Electoral Races and the Quality of Representation" Abstract U.S. Congressmen are very likely to be reelected and survey evidence suggests that voters are satisfied with their representatives. On the other hand, a large political science literature interprets the high incumbent reelection rate as evidence of lacking entry by strong challengers, analyzing its sources, consequences, and potential cures.…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marco Simoni (LSE)
"Institutional Roots of Economic Decline: Lessons from Italy"
Job Market Seminars Sander Heinsalu (University of Yale)
"Noisy signalling over time" Download the paper http://sanderheinsalu.com/papers/Noisy%20signalling%20over%20time.pdf
Job Market Seminars Andreas Steinhauer (University of Zurich)
"Identity, Working Moms, and Childlessness: Evidence from Switzerland" Download the paper https://sites.google.com/site/andreassteinhauer/AndreasSteinhauerJMP.pdf
Occasional Seminars Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics Thesis Defense
Consuelo Nava "Some Advances in Bayesian Modeling and Computation" Andrea Venturini "Information Disclosure and Deliberation Between Strategic Agents" http://www.sde.unito.it/activities/meetings.htm#met_thes_def_20140203
Job Market Seminars Yikai Wang (University of Zurich)
"Will China Escape the Middle-income Trap? A Politico-economic Theory of Growth and State Capitalism" abstract Is China's rapid growth sustainable if the labor and capital market distortions persist? Will democratization occur given that Chinese middle-class are supportive of the regime? To answer the above questions, this paper proposes a politico-economic theory, as follows. In oligarchy,…
Seminars in Politics and Society Fabio Franchino (Università di Milano)
"The Design of Fiscal Governance Rules of the European Union"
Job Market Seminars Joan Monras (Columbia University)
"Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis"
Seminars in Statistics Hugo Maruri-Aguilar (Queen Mary University of London)
The algebraic method in experimental designs This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
Seminars in Statistics Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick)
Chain event graphs and the geometry of causation This seminar is part of the 3rd Carlo Alberto Stochastics Workshop
Occasional Seminars CeRP seminar: Margherita Borella
"Cognitve functioning and retirement in Europe"
Seminars in Statistics Bas Kleijn (University of Amsterdam)
Testability and consistency Bayesian consistency theorems come in (at least) three distinct types, e.g. Doob's prior-almost-sure consistency on Polish spaces, Schwartz's Hellinger consistency with KL-priors and the `tailfree' weak consistency of Dirichlet posteriors. In this talk we ask the question how these notions of convergence are related and argue that one characterises them most conveniently…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ljubica Nedelkoska (Zeppelin University and Harvard University)
"Learning by Problem-solving" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis") abstract We analyze the dynamics of learning by problem-solving at the job. We propose that the exposure to challenging job tasks increases skills and therefore work productivity. As a result, job complexity leads to higher wages. We test our hypotheses using a large panel of German…
Seminars in Economics Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)
"Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments" Abstract This paper examines prenuptial contracts that allow couples in Italy to choose, at virtually no cost, how their assets will be divided in case of divorce. Unique administrative data on marriages and divorces from 1995 to 2011 indicate that the majority of newlyweds (67% in 2011) choose…
Seminars in Statistics Li Ma (Duke University)
Adaptive testing of conditional association through recursive mixture modeling In many case-control studies, a central goal is to test for association or dependence between the predictors and the response. Relevant covariates must be conditioned on to avoid false positives and loss in power. Conditioning on covariates is easy in parametric frameworks such as the logistic…
Seminars in Statistics Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University)
Deviance Information Criteria for the frailty model We are concerned with model selection for the frailty model by use of the deviance information criterion (DIC). The DIC is a Bayesian model selection criterion proposed by Spiegelhalter et al. (2002). A difficulty in applying the DIC to the frailty model lies on the unspecified baseline hazard…