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Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2012 Vilfredo Pareto Conference: “Work/Family: Women, Youngsters and their Labor Market Participation”

at 12.15 p.m. Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago "The Effects of Affirmative Action on Women's Labor Market and Family Choices:   Evidence from the Norwegian Board Quota" Lecture video at 3.00 p.m. Ainhoa Aparicio-Fenoll, Collegio Carlo Alberto "Being young in Southern Europe: Temporary labor contracts, school dropouts and late emancipation" Lecture video

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Marco Corsino, Università di Bologna

"External collaborations, on-the-job autonomy and the propensity to use patents to create new firms" abstract We analyze patent spinoffs by looking at the organizational characteristics of the parent organization, i.e. the firm where the patented invention has occurred. Understanding the origin of new technology ventures is important because they are the engine of creative destruction…

Seminars in Statistics Fabrizia Mealli (University of Florence)

Using secondary outcomes and covariates to sharpen inference in randomized experiments with noncompliance Restrictions implied by the randomization of treatment assignment on the joint distribution of a primary outcome and an auxiliary variable are used to tighten nonparametric bounds for intention-to-treat effects on the primary outcome for some latent subpopulations, without requiring the exclusion restriction…

Sarah Brown (University of Sheffield)

"The Saving Behaviour of Children: Analysis of British Panel Data" Abstract We explore the influences on the saving behaviour of children aged 11 to15 using panel data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey Youth Questionnaire. Our empirical findings suggest that parental allowances/pocket money exert a moderating influence on the probability that a child will…