Activities
Friday, April 26 2024
Dia · Setmana
13:30
Presentation Thomas Gautier
Description:
Next April 26 at 1:30 p.m., Thomas Gautier's presentation will take place in seminar room B3-112-C.
Date: Friday 26, April2024 - 13:30h
End date: Friday 26, April2024 - 14:30h
Monday, April 29, 2024
14:45
Presentation Julia Cagé
Description:
Next April 29 at 2:45 p.m., Julia Cagé's presentation will take place in the IAE seminar room.
Julia is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) seed grant for a five-year project on "Campaign finance, information and influence: a comprehensive approach using computer science tools and individual-scale data"
She is also co-director of the "Evaluation of Democracy" research group at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) and researcher at the Economic and Political Research Center (CEPR) (Economic History, Industrial Organization and Public Economy Programs) .
In addition, she is the leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on "Media Plurality".
Date: Monday 29, April2024 - 14:45h
End date: Monday 29, April2024 - 15:45h
Thursday, May 2, 2024
14:20
Presentation Nicolas Oviedo-Dávila
Description:
Next May 2 at 2:20 p.m., the presentation of Nicolas Oviedo-Dávila will take place. Nicolas is a PhD student in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). Previously, he worked as an investment banker for 5 years, before moving to development finance in the Infrastructure and Energy Division of IDB Invest (Inter-American Development Bank) in Santiago de Chile.
The topic he will discuss is entitled "Incentive Contracts and Peer Effects in the Workplace"
Date: Thursday 2, May2024 - 14:20h
End date: Thursday 2, May2024 - 15:20h
Friday, May 3, 2024
11:30
Presentation Mattias Folkestad
Description:
Next May 3 at 11:30am, the presentation of Mattias Folkestad "Teacher at day, suffragist at night" will take place. Mattias is a doctoral student in economics at the IIES. He has a background in politics as an economic policy advisor in the Swedish Parliament and was previously president of the Swedish Federation of Student Unions.
Date: Friday 3, May2024 - 11:30h
End date: Friday 3, May2024 - 12:30h
Monday, May 6, 2024
14:45
Presentation Lena Hensvik
Description:
On May 6 at 2:45 p.m., the presentation of Lena Hensvik (Uppsala University) will take place at the IAE Seminar Room.
Her research focuses on the labor economy, with a current interest in job search, worker-company mating and wage determination.
Date: Monday 6, May2024 - 14:45h
End date: Monday 6, May2024 - 15:45h
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
13:30
Presentation Sara Ayllón Gatnau
Description:
Next May 7 at 1:30 p.m., Sara Ayllón Gatnau's presentation will take place in seminar room A.Sara is an associate professor at the University of Girona and an IZA research grantee. He works on a variety of topics, including the economics of poverty and inequality, the economics of the family, and the economics of labor. You can find more information by visiting his personal web page.
The title of his presentation is "Subsidized school meals and children's educational performance: the case of Barcelona".
This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates of the impact of a resource-based program subsidizing school lunches on educational performance (scores of outstanding tests and annual grades). We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the entire universe of applications for the school lunch subsidy program. Using a regression discontinuity design we measure the effect of receiving a partial subsidy rather than none, while a difference-in-differences strategy allows us to account for the effect of receiving a full subsidy versus a partial subsidy. Our results indicate a positive overall effect of subsidies on the educational performance of all the subjects analyzed, but our estimates only reach conventional statistical significance for the Catalan language. The heterogeneous results indicate that the most benefited are boys from relatively poor backgrounds who attend large schools where their peers are, on average, more advantaged. The possibility to communicate and socialize during lunch with more linguistically competent children is probably the mechanism behind our main results.
Date: Tuesday 7, May2024 - 13:30h