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Seminars in Economics Raquel Bernal (Universidad de los andes)

"The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Community Nurseries to Childcare Centers on Children in Colombia" abstract Colombia’s national early childhood strategy launched in 2011 aimed at improving the quality of childcare services offered to socio-economically vulnerable children, and included transferring children from small non-parental family daycare units into large childcare centers in urban areas.…

Monday Lunch Seminars Martina Viarengo (Graduate Institute Geneve)

"Nation-Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass Migration" Abstract By the mid-19th century, America was the best educated nation on Earth: significant financial investments in education were being undertaken and the majority of children voluntarily attended public schools. So why did American states start introducing compulsory schooling laws at this point in time?…

Seminars in Politics and Society Ute Klammer (Univ of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

"Gender, employment biographies and EU employment and social policy strategies" abstract Within the European Union, a number of demographic trends such as low fertility, rising life expectancy and the aging of the population have widely been discussed. Looking at the labour market, it can be observed that unemployment, the rise of precarious jobs and the…

Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Brusa (Temple University)

"Human Capital, Unemployment Risk, and Asset Prices" Abstract This paper relates the riskiness of human capital to uncertainty in the labour market and documents a role for unemployment as a determinant of human wealth. Starting from the labour market equilibrium outcome, I derive two unemployment-adjusted measures of labour income and rely on U.S. micro-level data…

Seminars in Politics and Society Alexandre Afonso (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlandes)

"Institutional Change in South European Labour Market Regimes After the Crisis" abstract This paper seeks to map and compare change in labour markets regimes in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece in the aftermath of the financial crisis. While the extent of austerity policies in terms of fiscal retrenchment in these countries has been the subject of much interest, we still…

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ben Jones (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)

"The Reverse Matthew Effect: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams" abstract Teamwork pervades modern economies, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain.  In the sciences, the canonical "Matthew Effect" suggests that eminent team members garner credit for great works at the expense of less eminent team members.  We study this phenomenon in reverse,…

Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"A Symmetric Model of Firms and Workers" Abstract In this paper we develop a model in which unemployed searchers may either encountera firm and be considered as a new employee or may generate a business idea in which case they begin their own firm. This is the first paper in which an equilibrium distribution of…

Seminars in Statistics Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)

Nonparametric Bayesian inference for discretely sampled diffusions We consider the nonlinear statistical inverse problem ofmaking inference on the unknown parameters of a diffusion processdescribing the solution of a stochastic differential equation. Theobservation regime is such that the process is sampled at discretetime points that are a fixed distance apart, and we investigate theasymptotic regime when…