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CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) SWELLFER Seminar: “Forms and dynamics of multiple well-being and deprivation in contemporary Switzerland”

Dr. Mario Lucchini Abstract This paper proposes the application of an innovative technique of clustering and projection – the Self-Organizing Map – in order to identify multidimensional patterns of well-being and deprivation in contemporary Switzerland. Starting from a rich set of non-monetary indicators from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), a topological map is extrapolated. This…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) TESORO PARLIAMONE… Non Può Finire Così!

TESORO PARLIAMONE 2014: three days of debates over the economy, the crisis and reforms. Tesoro Parliamone...Non Può Finire Così For the third year in a row, the students’ union Assemblea di Economia organizes at the Scuola di Management e Economia in Turin a cycle of debates with distinguished guests from the economic and political world.…

Seminars in Statistics Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, France)

Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo We develop a new class of algorithms, SQMC (Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo), as a variant of SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) based on low-discrepancy points. The complexity of SQMC is O(N log N) where N is the number of simulations at each iteration, and its error rate is smaller than the Monte…

Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)

"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…

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 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.…