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Seminars in Politics and Society Daniel Lichter (Cornell University)

"At the Starting Line: Rural Poverty and Inequality among Hispanic Newborns" Abstract The recent movement of Hispanics into rural immigrant destinations has sometimes deflected attention from another major source of rural population growth – fertility. High rates of Hispanic fertility raise an important question: Do Hispanic newborn babies start life’s race behind the starting line,…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Child-Collegio Carlo Alberto-University of Turin Workshop: “Parental and Public Investments and Child Outcomes”

9.45 Coffee and Welcome Address 10.00 Ken Wolpin (UPenn) Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom: Understanding the Results from the ALI experiment (with Petra Todd)Discussant Mario Pagliero (University of Turin and CHILD-CCA) 10.45 Christopher Flinn (NYU) Transfers to families with children and child outcomes (with Daniela Del Boca and Matt Wiswall)Discussant Marco Cosconati (Bank…

Seminars in Economics Alberto Manconi (Tilburg University)

"Do Short Sellers Care About Corporate Hedging?" abstract We study the relationship between corporate hedging and short selling, using a novel data set on short sales of US equities over the period 2002-2009, and hand-collected data on corporate hedging. We document that hedging is associated with lower uncertainty, i.e., lower analyst forecast dispersion and greater breadth of ownership. This should…

Seminars in Politics and Society Emmanuele Pavolini (Università di Macerata)

"Child care in Italy: are there social class differences in the access to services?" abstract Child care has become increasingly central in the debate about the transformation and the recalibration of the welfare state. If the welfare state debate until the 1990s was mainly centered around policy fields such as pensions and unemployment benefits (Esping-Andersen,…

Geoffrey Parsons Miller (New York University Law School)

"Intellectual Hazard: How Conceptual Biases in Complex Organizations Contributed to the Crisis of 2008" Abstract This paper identifies an important but previously unrecognized systemic risk in financial markets: intellectual hazard. Intellectual hazard, as we define it, is the tendency of behavioral biases to interfere with accurate thought and analysis within complex organizations. Intellectual hazard impairs…

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Nicoletta Corrocher (Università Bocconi)

"Innovation and stringency of environmental regulation in waste management: a patent-based analysis" abstract This work aims at empirically testing the (narrow version of the) Porter hypothesis, by analyzing the relationshipbetween stringency of environmental regulation and innovation in a cross-country setting (EU countries) with reference to waste management, which is an increasingly important issue in the EU environmental policy agenda. To address thisquestion, patent applications from the waste management category of the WIPO…

Seminars in Economics Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton)

"Measuring the Bias of Technological Change" Abstract When technological change occurs, it can increase the productivity of capital, labor,and the other factors of production in equal terms or it can be biased towards a specificfactor. Whether technological change favors some factors of production over othersis an empirical question that is central to economics. The literatures…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Lecture Celebrating 10 Years of IEL: “Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being”

Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell Law School & IEL) Welcoming address Roberta Meo, Mayor of the City of Moncalieri Elisa Luciano, Università di Torino, Master in Finance & IEL Giovanni Battista Ramello, Università del Piemonte Orientale & IEL Coordinator Chair Gianmaria Ajani, Università di Torino, Dean of the Law School & IEL Discussant Angelo Cappetti, Unione Ex-convittori…