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Occasional Seminars Allievi Program Defense Sessions July 2014

10.00  Aleksandra Kolndrekaj "School attendance and child labor as an informal insurance device. An empirical research in Tanzania" 11.00  Vito Musci "Optimal filtering one-dimensional diffusive signals " 12.00  Valerio Perrone "Learning and Generalization in a Perceptron with Discrete Synapses: a Statistical Physics Approach"

Seminars in Statistics Michael J. Daniels (University of Texas at Austin)

A Flexible Bayesian Approach to Monotone Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies with Informative Missingness with Application to An Acute Schizophrenia Clinical Trial We develop a Bayesian nonparametric model for a longitudinal response in the presence of nonignorable missing data. Our general approach is to first specify a {em working model} that flexibly models the missingness…

Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: Richard Disney (IFS)

CeRP Seminar: "House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labor Supply" Sala Rossa abstract We examine the impact of housing wealth on labor supply using data on exogenous local variation in house prices merged into household panel data for Britain. Our estimates are conditioned on variations in local labor demand and income expectations as these may co-determine…

Seminars in Economics Ilse Lindenlaub (EUI)

"Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application" abstract This paper studies multidimensional matching between workers and jobs. Workers dier in manualand cognitive skills and sort into jobs that demand dierent combinations of these two skills.To study this multidimensional sorting, I develop a theoretical framework that generalizes theunidimensional notion of assortative matching. I derive the equilibrium in…

Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2014 Vilfredo Pareto Conference: “Politicians’ Selection and their Career Patterns”

at 12:00 p.m. Vilfredo Pareto Lecture Antonio MerloUniversity of Pennsylvania The Devil is in the Detail: The Industrial Organization of the Political Sector ***** at 3:00 p.m. Edoardo GrilloUnicredit & Universities Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto Lying or not Lying? Hidden Costs of Raising Voters' Expectations   https://www.facebook.com/events/876618299020863/