Archives for IRES
March 19, 2019
IRES Lunch Seminar
Mathilde Valero (AMSE)
Mathilde Valero
(AMSE)
will give a presentation on
Household Income Shocks and Sibling Composition: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Abstract: Exploiting exogenous variation in drought conditions across districts in Tanzania, this paper investigates the effects of climate change on...
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March 14, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Regina Riphahn ( Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Regina T. Riphahn
(Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Will give a presentation on
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Abstract: This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships...
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March 12, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
John Roemer
John Roemer
(Yale University)
will gave a presentation on
How we cooperate: A theory of Kantian optimization
Abstract: Economic theory has focused almost exclusively on how humans compete with each other in their economic activity, culminating in general equilibrium...
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March 07, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Matthias Doepke
Matthias Dopeke
(Northwestern University)
will give a presentation on
Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe
Abstract: Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a sharp rise in the college wage premium....
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March 05, 2019
IRES Lunch Seminar
Alexandros Theloudis
Alexandros Theloudis
(LISER and University College London)
will give a presentation on
Family Time Allocation Over the Last Half Century
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