Spring 2022 Seminar

Schedule

Unless noted in bold below, all seminars take place at 3 pm UK time on Thursdays. Please note that titles are subject to change. Speakers denoted with an asterisk (*) will take place on Zoom. In-person seminars in St Andrews (COVID conditions permitting) will be live-streamed.

If you would like to be on our seminar E-mail list, please contact David Jaeger.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
20.1	No seminar
27.1	Claudia Olivetti*	Dartmouth College and NBER	“Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility“
03.2	Antonella Bancalari	University of St Andrews and IFS	“Resource Windfalls and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Peru“
10.2	Petra Moser*	New York University and NBER	“Women in Science: Lessons from the Baby Boom“
17.2	Markus Gehrsitz	University of Strathclyde and IZA	“Does a Spoonful of Sugar Levy Help the Calories Go Down? An Analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy“
24.2	No seminar: Spring Break
03.3	Valeria Rueda	University of Nottingham and CEPR	“Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market“
10.3	Peter Hull*	Brown University and NBER	“Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement“
17.3	Sir Richard Blundell	University College London, IFS, IZA, and CEPR	“Wage Progression, Human Capital and Labour Market Inequality”
24.3	Sara Heller*	University of Michigan and NBER	“Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago”
31.3	Sarah Cattan	IFS and IZA	“Social Networks, Elite Education and Intergenerational Mobility“
07.4	Philip Oreopoulos*	University of Toronto, IZA, and NBER	“What Does a Good Teacher Sound Like? Using Audio Files to Predict Teacher Effectiveness“
14.4	Melanie Lührmann	Royal Holloway, University of London and IFS	“Local Economic Conditions and Subjective House Price Expectations“
12.5	Tim Moore	Purdue University and NBER

Also of Interest

The School of Economics and Finance Seminar will host several speakers of interest to applied microeconomists this semester. The seminar meets from 11:15 to 12:30 UK time on Tuesdays, online on Zoom unless note.. For more information about attending these seminars, please contact Irina Merkurieva.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
08.2	Catia Batista	NOVA and IZA	“Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce ‘Backway’ Migration?”
22.3	Margherita Fort	University of Bologna, IZA, and CEPR	“Multi-cutoff RD designs with observations located at each cutoff: problems and solutions”
29.3 (in person)	Cevat Giray Aksoy	King’s College London, EBRD, and IZA	Cancelled, to be rescheduled in Fall 2022.

Previous Seminar Schedules