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 |
|---|---|---|
| 11 September | Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol) | East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood 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, Alessandra L. Gonzalez and David Yanagizawa-Drott) |
| 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 and Alan de Bromhead) |
| 9 October | Morten Ravn (University College London) | Macroeconomic Fluctuations with HANK & SAM: an Analytical Approach (joint with Morten Ravn and 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 Christopher Blattman, 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, Noemi Mantovan and Robert Sauer) |
| 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 Philippe Bachetta and Eric van Wincoop) |
| 20 November | Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich) | TBC |
| *Friday 23 November* 12:30-14:00 | Vernon Henderson (London School of Economics) | TBC
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| 22 January | Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford) | TBC |
| 29 January | Valeriya Dinger (University of Osnabrück) | TBC |
| *Thursday 31 January* 12:30-14:00 | Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan) | TBC
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| 5 February | Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge University) | TBC |
| 12 February | David Dorn (University of Zurich) | TBC |
| 19 February | Jorge de la Roca (University of Southern California) | TBC |
| 26 February | Laura Schecter (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | TBC |
| 4 March | STUDY/REVIEW WEEK | |
| 26 March | Espen Henrikson (Norweigen Business School) | TBC |
| 2 April | Sascha Becker (University of Warwick) | TBC |
| 9 April | Leah Boustan (Princeton University) | TBC |
| *Tuesday 7 May, 12:30-14:00 | Nathan Nunn (Havard University) | TBC |
All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TRISS unless otherwise indicated.