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Seminars in Statistics James Scott (University of Texas at Austin)

False discovery rate smoothing Many approaches for multiple testing begin with the assumption that all tests in a given study should be combined into a global false-discovery-rate analysis.  But this may be inappropriate for many of today's large-scale screening problems, where test statistics have a natural spatial lattice structure (voxels in the brain, distance along…

Seminars in Politics and Society Sebastien Lechevalier (CRJ-EHESS, Paris)

"Revisiting cross-national variations in preference for redistribution. Attitudes to inequalities, social beliefs, and welfare systems" abstract There are significant differences across countries in terms of redistribution by the government and they may correspond to underlying dissimilarities in preference for redistribution across the population of these countries. In particular, previous literature has compared the US and…

Seminars in Economics Ryan McDevitt (Duke University)

"The Elasticity of Demand for Alternative Financial Services: Evidence from Check-Cashing Price Changes in the South Bronx" Abstract Using proprietary data from customers’ transactions, we estimate the elasticity of demand for check-cashing services.  Our identification strategy exploits two key features of the data: one bank unilaterally reduced its check-cashing fees while its nearby competitors maintained…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) CINTIA SECOND CONFERENCE on aging, pensions, retirement and long term care

“Towards a greater financial inclusion: Gender perspectives on savings, borrowing and insurance” The conference will start on Monday, November 24 at 6 pm, with a plenary lecture held by Axel Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), and will continue on November 25 with paper presentations. The conference will end with the Sixth Onorato Castellino Lecture.

Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Journey to the centre of the EU: Does Europe have a core, and does it matter?" abstract What kind of ‘core’, if any, does Europe have? This question has gained new urgency in light of the EU’s ongoing crises, which are reshaping the integration project and leading to a renewal of political discourses around the…