Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (University of York)
Monday Lunch Seminars Sarah Grace See (University of York)
"Juggling Work and Family: The Effect of Flexibility on Mental Health" abstract Flexible working practices can help parents maintain work and family life balance that can lead to increased productivity and improved mental health and well-being. However, they can also lead to increased stress and are instead detrimental. Applying a regression discontinuity design, this paper…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Vincenzo Butticé (Politecnico di Milano)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Vincenzo Butticé (Politecnico di Milano)
"Organization and Finance of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Looking beyond the Surface" abstract In this paper we examine the association between the organization and the modes of financing of entrepreneurial ventures. By means of a mixed-methods study, we show that after receiving outside equity from external investors, entrepreneurial ventures’ top management teams becomes larger and more specialized.…
Seminars in Politics and Society Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
Seminars in Politics and Society Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
"Creating capabilities: Childcare policies in comparative perspective" Abstract This paper analyses childcare services in six countries, assessing this policy instrument’s potential to facilitate parents’ real opportunities to arrange childcare. It draws on Sen’s capability approach to investigate cross-national varieties of defamilialism and gender assumptions in a regime perspective. We seek to conceptualise and assess five…
Occasional Seminars Stefano Fenoaltea (CESMEP, Università Torino)
Occasional Seminars Stefano Fenoaltea (CESMEP, Università Torino)
"The Growth of the Italian Economy 1861-1913" at Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Seminars in Statistics Brunero Liseo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Seminars in Statistics Brunero Liseo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Modelling Preference Data with the Wallenius Distribution The Wallenius distribution is a generalisation of the Hypergeometric distribution where weights are assigned to balls of different colours. This naturally defines a model for ranking categories which can be used for classification purposes. Since, in general, the resulting likelihood is not analytically available, we adopt an approximate…