Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
Monday Lunch Seminars Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
"A Test for Instrument Validity" Abstract This paper develops a specification test for instrument validity in the heterogeneous treatment effect model with a binary treatment and a discrete instrument. The strongest testable implication for instrument validity is given by the condition for non-negativity of point- identifiable complier’s outcome densities. Our specification test infers this testable…
Seminars in Economics Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain)
Seminars in Economics Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain)
"Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession: Evidence from Spain"
Seminars in Politics and Society Denish Walsh and Carol Mershon
Seminars in Politics and Society Denish Walsh and Carol Mershon
"Strategies for Diversifying Academe: Redressing Bias against Women and Minority Scholars in the Social Science Professions"
CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) Swellfer seminar: “Subjective well being between context and time”
Monday Lunch Seminars Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Trento and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Trento and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
“Norms, competition and visibility in contemporary science: the legacy of Robert K Merton” (Note: the seminar is on Friday) Abstract Can Robert K. Merton’s seminal work in the sociology of science still offer useful insights to understand key features, trends and challenges of science in contemporary societies? This paper focuses on two main topics. It addresses…