Applied Economics Seminar Series

A seminar series designed specifically for applied economics researchers to network and collaborate.

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Dr Andrea La Nauze

Hey! Governor! Leave Them Kids Alone: Political Influence During Childhood

11 October 2024 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Federico Masera, University of New South Wales

A $100,000 Marshmallow Experiment: Withdrawal and Spending Responses to Early Retirement-savings Access

4 October 2024 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Steve Hamilton, George Washington University

Short-term Mortality Impact of Public Pension Programs: Evidence from South Korea

3 October 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Prof Seonghoon Kim, Singapore Management University

Cultural Exception? The Impact of Price Regulation on Prices and Variety in the Market for Books

1 August 2024 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Prof Tommasso Valletti, Imperial College London

Aid for Incumbents: The Electoral Consequences of COVID-19 Relief

2 May 2024 9:00am10:00am
Presented by Prof Jefferey Clemens, University of California, San Diego

Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs

19 April 2024 11:30am1:00pm
Presented by A/Prof Jason Kerwin, University of Minnesota

CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions

11 April 2024 11:00am12:30pm
Presented by Prof Hitoshi Shigeoka, University of Tokyo

Education and Wartime Mobilization: Evidence from Colonial Korea during WWII

28 March 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Prof Sangyoon Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Political Consequences of Vaccines: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Eligibility Rules

14 March 2024 1:00pm2:30pm
Presented by Prof Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Work2vec: Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia

29 February 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Presented by Dr Sarah Bana, Chapman University

Drained Away: Oil Lost from First Nations Reserves

23 November 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Lucija Muehlenbachs, University of Calgary

The Virtuous Cycle between Skills and Technology

9 November 2023 2:00pm3:30pm
Presented by Prof Sascha Becker, Monash University

Unobserved Networks and Common Factors in Macroeconomic Fluctuations

12 October 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Jorge Miranda-Pinto, The University of Queensland

Are Targeted Marketing Schemes Effective in Stimulating Retirement Savings?

14 September 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Cain Polidano, The University of Melbourne

“Growing Pains” in China’s Social Security System

17 August 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Xincheng Qiu, W.P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Energy Prices and Electric Vehicle Adoption

11 May 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Associate Professor Erich Muehlegger, University of Calinfornia, Davis.

“Workhorses of Opportunity:” Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility

27 April 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Greg Howard, University of Illinois.

How do Behavioral Approaches to Increase Savings Compare? Evidence from Multiple Interventions in the U.S Army

30 March 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by A/Prof Bill Skimmyhorn, Raymond A. Mason School of Business.

Network Regulation under Electoral Competition

16 March 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Magnus Soderberg, Griffith University.

Does the Origin of the Seller Matter? Casual Evidence from Real-Estate Advertisements

2 March 2023 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Dr Sofie Waltl, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER).

Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement

3 November 2022 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Professor Ashley C. Craig, University of Michigan.

Applied Economics Seminar Series

3 November 2022 9:30am11:30am
Presented by Ashley Craig

Applied Economics Seminar Series

27 October 2022 9:30am11:30am
Presented by Jim Sallee

Applied Economics Seminar Series

13 October 2022 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Alice Solda

Unpacking P‐hacking and Publication Bias

29 September 2022 9:30am
Presented by Lester Lusher, University of Hawaii

Applied Economics Seminar Series

29 September 2022 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Lester Lusher

The Medical Brain Drain - Assessing the Location Preferences of Medicine Students

23 September 2022 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Dr Yuanyuan Gu, Macquarie University

Applied Economics Seminar Series

1 September 2022 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Jie Gong

The Returns to an Additional Year of Education for College Graduates

1 September 2022 9:30am
Presented by Jie Gong, National University of Singapore

Ride-Sharing and the Geography of Consumption Industries

18 August 2022 9:30am
Presented by A/Prof Jordan Norris, New York University | Abu Dhabi

Applied Economics Seminar Series

18 August 2022 9:30am11:00am
Presented by Jordan Norris.

Water markets can accelerate groundwater depletion and increase surface water availability

26 May 2022 9:30am10:30am
Presented by Sheila Olmstead from The University of Texas at Austin.

Revisiting the gap between the willingness to pay and willingness to accept for public goods

12 May 2022 6:00pm7:00pm
Presented by Daniel Rondeau from the University of Victoria

Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

31 March 2022 9:00am10:30am
Presented by Maya Rossin-Slater from Stanford University, School of Medicine.
Applied economics seminar series

No evidence that siblings’ gender affects personality across nine countries

3 March 2022 9:30am11:30am
Presented by Dr Jan Feld, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The effect of changes in the skill premium on college degree attainment and the choice of major

3 February 2020 12:00pm2:00pm
Speaker: Professor Victor Lavy, University of Warwick, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

28 November 2019 1:30pm
Presented by Carol Propper (with Katharina Janke and Raff Sadun)

Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

21 November 2019 12:00pm
Presented by Professor Andrea Ichino, European University Institute and CEPR
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Service Level Provision in Municipalities: A Flexible directional Distance Composite Indicator

24 October 2019 12:00pm
Presented by Dr Giovana D’Inverno, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Residential Investment in Australia and Domestic Market Incentives

5 September 2019 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Maria Yanotti, University of Tasmania
Screens

Capital and Uncertainty – How Large Capital Investment Decisions are made within a Firm

22 August 2019 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Ian Runge, The University of Queensland.
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The Long Run Political Consequences of Integration Through Busing

15 August 2019 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Dr Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland.

Not All Management Training is Created Equal: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program

27 June 2019 12:00pm
Presented by Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles, with Nicola Bianchi

Economic Development, The Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease

13 June 2019 12:00pm
Presented by Swapnil Singh, Bank of Lithuania

Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

13 May 2019 10:00am
Presented by David Dickinson, Appalachian State University

A Kinky Consistency: Experimental Evidence of Behavior Under Linear and Non-Linear Budget Sets

4 April 2019 12:00pm
Presented by Dr Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, University of California LA, with Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato.
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Are Efficient Bargaining Power Disparities Unfair? An Experimental Test

14 March 2019 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Aaron Nicholas, Deakin University.
Applied economics

Applied Economics Seminar Series: Christopher Jepsen

11 October 2018 12:00pm1:15pm
Christopher Jepsen | University College Dublin
Applied economics

Applied Economics Seminar Series: Marian Vidal-Fernandez

4 October 2018 12:00pm1:15pm
Marian Vidal-Fernandez | University of Sydney
Applied economics

Applied Economics Seminar Series: Nicole Black

13 September 2018 12:00pm1:15pm
Nicole Black | Monash University

Applied Economics Seminar Series: Travers Barclay Child, CEIBS

6 September 2018 12:00pm1:15pm
Travers Barclay Child | China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Applied economics

Applied Economics Seminar with Chihiro Shimizu

7 December 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Chihiro Shimizu | National University of Singapore
Applied economics

Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

30 November 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Dr Klaus Zimmermann | Maastricht University
Applied economics

An Experimental Implementation of Cooperative Games

29 November 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Ailin Leng | The University of Queensland
Applied economics

The Difference Approach to Productivity Measurement and Exact Indicators

3 November 2017 4:00pm5:00pm
Erwin Diewert | The University of British Columbia
Applied economics

True overconfidence, revealed through actions: An experiment

21 September 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Stephen Cheung | University of Sydney
Applied economics

The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice and Occupational Segregation

7 September 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Jan Feld | Victoria University of Wellington
Applied economics

Impact Evaluation and Production Frontier Methods in Education

5 September 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Gabriella Sicilia | Autonomous Univ of Madrid
Applied economics

Confidence Intervals for Efficiency Scores in Non-convex Technologies

7 August 2017 12:00pm7 September 2017 1:00pm
Luiza Bădin | Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Applied economics

Taxational resource curve – evidence from China

13 April 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Shawn Chen | University of Western Australia
Applied economics

Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in Tutorial Teaching

6 April 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Nicolas Salamanca Acosta | University of Melbourne
Applied economics

Investing when risk and ambiguity create opportunities for exploitation – the basic mechanism and the case of ageing investors

9 March 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Jonas Fooken | Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, University of Queensland
Applied economics

Regulatory tournaments and social norms

6 October 2016 12:00pm2:00pm
Dietrich Earnhart | University of Kansas
Applied economics

Partial Identification of the Return to Schooling

5 May 2016 12:00pm2:00pm
Juergen Meinecke | Australian National University
Applied economics

Fast and Accurate Computation of Marginal Likelihood

21 April 2016 12:00pm2:00pm
Dr Reza Hajargasht | University of Melbourne
Applied economics

Reconciling Output Gaps: Unobserved Components Model and Hodrick-Prescott Filter

14 April 2016 12:00pm2:00pm
Joshua Chan | Australian National University
Applied economics

On measuring regional or global growth and inflation

2 December 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Bert Balk | Erasmus University
Applied economics

Rents and the means of protection

26 November 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Arye Hillman | Bar-Ilan University
Applied economics

Negotiating the gender wage gap

15 November 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Katrien Stevens | University of Sydney
Applied economics

Mothers' employment and children's educational gender gap

12 November 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Xiaodong Fan | University of New South Wales
Applied economics

Piecewise Cobb-Douglas environmental envelopments: Directional

29 October 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Israfil Roshdi | The University of Auckland Business School
Applied economics

Measuring industry productivity across time and space and cross country convergence

26 October 2015 10:00am12:00pm
Erwin Diewert | University of British Columbia/University of New South Wales
Applied economics

Eliciting utility curvature and time preference

16 October 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Stephen Cheung | University of Sydney
Applied economics

Modeling cross correlation across major financial markets: a threshold approach

1 October 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Nektarios Aslanidis | Universitat Rovila Virgili
Applied economics

Political glass ceiling in Japan

13 August 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Haishan Yuan | The University of Queensland
Applied economics

Institutional complementarity across countries in bilateral FDI

29 June 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Pao-Li Chang | Singapore Management University
Applied economics

Empirical relevance of ambiguity in first price auction models

18 June 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Dong-Hyuk Kim | Vanderbilt University
Applied economics

Nonlinear pricing with loss aversion

11 June 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Catarina Roseta Palma | ISCTE
Applied economics

Credit, inequality and trade

29 April 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Sugata Marjit | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Applied economics

Globalization and product reshuffle

8 April 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Tuan Anh Luong | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Applied economics

Applied Economics Seminar

20 February 2015 12:00pm2:00pm
Derek Hewady | CGIAR
Applied economics

Tools, fertilizer or cash? Exchange asymmetries in productive assets

21 January 2015 12:00pm1:00pm
Stein T Holden | Norwegian University of Life Sciences