Seminar Series
Research Seminar Series 2018-2019
Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in TRISS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 11 September | Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol) | East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighbourhood Sorting (joint with Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg) |
| 18 September | Nava Ashraf (London School of Economics ) | Women, Entrepreneurship and Institutions (Professor Nava Ashraf) |
| 25 September | David Yanagizawa Drott (University of Zurich) | Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia (joint with Leonardo Bursztyn and Alessandra L. Gonzalez) |
| 2 October | Dr Alan De Bromhead (Queens University Belfast) | Rise and Fall in the Third Reich: Social Mobility and Nazi Membership (joint with Matthias Blum) |
| 9 October | Morten Ravn (University College London) | Macroeconomic Fluctuations with HANK & SAM: an Analytical Approach (joint with Vincent Sterk) |
| *Friday 12 October* (TRISS Seminar Room 12:30-14:00) | Chris Blattman (University of Chicago) | The long term impacts of grants on poverty: 9-year evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program (joint with Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez) |
| 16 October | John Marshall (Columbia University) | Political information cycles: When do voters sanction incumbent parties for high homicide rates? (John Marshall) |
| 22 October | STUDY/REVIEW WEEK | |
| 30 October | Robert Sauer (Royal Holloway University of London) | The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match (joint with Dan Anderberg and Noemi Mantovan ) |
| 6 November | Helene Turon (University of Bristol) | Home production of childcare and labour supply decisions in a collective household model (Dr Helene Turon) |
| 13 November | Philippe Bacchetta (HEC Lausanne) | Puzzling Exchange Rate Dynamics and Delayed Portfolio Adjustment (joint with Eric van Wincoop) |
| 20 November | Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich) | Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile (joint with Maria Paula Gerardino and Stephan Litschig) |
| *Friday 23 November* (BESS Seminar Room, Arts Building 12:30-14:00) | Vernon Henderson (London School of Economics) | Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities (joint with Neeraj G Baruah and Cong Peng)
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| 27 November 2018 | Barra Roantree (ESRI) | Income tax and the careers of women (Barra Roantree) |
| 22 January | Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford) | Formal and Informal Firm Dynamics (Gabriel Ulyssea) |
| 29 January | Valeriya Dinger (University of Osnabrück) | Financial Globalization and Bank Lending: The Limits of Domestic Monetary Policy (joint with Jin Cao) |
| *Thursday 31 January* (Arts Building Conference Room, Ground Floor, Arts Building 12:30-14:00) | Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan) | Relational Contracting Inside the Firm (joint with Jean-Francois Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo)
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| 5 February | Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge University) | Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Cardiometabolic Disease - (joint with Nancy Luke, Anu Mary Oommen and Swapnil Singh) |
| 12 February | David Dorn (University of Zurich) | The Fall of the Labour Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms (joint with David Autor, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen) |
| 19 February | Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) | No Kin In The Game - Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress (Eoin McGuirk) |
| 26 February | Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation (joint with Josh Deutschmann, Molly Lipscomb and Jessica Zhu) |
| 4 March | STUDY/REVIEW WEEK | |
| 12 March | Jorge de la Roca (University of Southern California) | City of Dreams (joint with Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Diego Puga) |
| 19 March | Andrea Presbitero (IMF) | Financial Access Under the Microscope (joint with Sumit Agarwal, Thomas Kigabo, Camelia Minoiu and André F. Silva) |
| 26 March | Espen Henrikson (Norwegian Business School) | Demographic Obstacles to European Growth (joint with Thomas F. Cooley and Charlie Nusbaum) |
| 2 April | Sascha Becker (University of Warwick) | Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Sascha Becker) |
| 9 April | Leah Boustan (Princeton University) | The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War (joint with Katherine Eriksson and Philipp Ager) |
| *Tuesday 7 May, 12:30-14:00 | Nathan Nunn (Havard University) | Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (joint with Paola Giuliano) |
| *Monday 17 June, (Global Room, 1st Floor,Watts Building 12:30-14:00) | Ed Glaeser (Harvard University) | The Spatial Mismatch Between Innovation and Joblessness (joint with Naomi Hausman) |
All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TRISS unless otherwise indicated.