The CC-ME hosts a Microeconometric Seminar Series to promote discussions with external researchers from academia and other institutions. Moreover, it is intended to disseminate advanced research methodologies and topics in the field of microeconomic evaluation.
Presentations are held in either webinar or hybrid format.
Please contact JRC-S3-EVENTS@ec.europa.eu if you wish to participate.
| 07 January | Luca Facchinello, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy | PFAS Exposure and Cognitive Development: Evidence from an Italian Environmental Incident |
| 21 January | Augusto Cerqua, UniRoma | Causal inference and policy evaluation without a control group |
| 04 February | Pedro Luis Silva, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) | When Girls Enter STEM |
| 11 February | Ana Costa-Ramon, Department of Economics & Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development | (Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply |
| 18 February | Ilaria Prometti, University of Pavia | Narratives, Accents, and Health: Tailored Norm-Nudges and Children Bedtime Disparities |
| 11 March | Lukas Laffer, Matej Bel University | Testing identification in mediation and dynamic treatment models |
| 18 March | Michela Boldrin, uni bocconi | Taming Tech Giants’ Algorithms: What do consumers know (and want)? An analysis of the Amazon Buy-Box case |
| 01 April | Rolf Strietholt, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Hamburg | TBS |
| 08 April | Alberto Montagnoli, University of Sheffield | Pricing Potential: Understanding the Value of Unrealised Housing Energy Efficiency |
| 06 May | Marco Francesconi, Essex University, UK | Parental Leave from the Firm's Perspective |
| 20 May | Erich Battistin, University of Maryland | The Long Term Eects of Teacher Wage Dierentials |
| 27 May | Miguel Angel Borrella Mas, Universidad de Navarra | How do Labels and Vouchers Shape Unconditional Cash Transfers? Experimental Evidence from Georgia (with Jaime Millán-Quijano and Anastasia Terskaya) |
| 03 June | Louis Volante, Brock University | The Impact of the Pandemic and School Closures on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive learning outcomes |
| 24 June | Michel Serafinelli, Essex University, UK | Fossil Fuel Communities |
| 17 September | Corinna Ghirelli, Bank of Spain | The impact of El Niño and La Niña on Euro area inflation |
| 30 September | Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University. | Cancelled - An information theory about sexual harassment |
| 08 October | Juan Delgado, GAMES Economics (Global Analysis of Market Economics and Strategies) | International Outcomes of Venture-funded Companies: The Role of Acquisitions |
| 15 October | Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona | News Consumption, Multi-homing, and Advertising Strategies |
| 21 October | Ludovico Carrino, University of Trieste | Measuring Social Inclusion in Europe: a non-additive approach with the expert-preferences of public policy planners |
| 05 November | Massimo Riccaboni, IMT Lucca | Founding conditions, learning and firm survival |
| 26 November | Georgios Chrysanthou, University of Dundee | Two-step Parametric Estimation of Binary Treatment Effects in the Presence of Misclassification and Endogeneity |
| 03 December | Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Climate change and migration: the case of Africa |
| 10 December | Giuseppe Migali, Lancaster University and Magna Graecia University | Spatial Variations in the Impact of Covid-19 on the Educational Gender Gap in English Secondary Schools |
| 23 January | Rosalia Greco, Bank of Italy - Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research | New evidence on State aid for firms in Italy |
| 30 January | Lia Pacelli & Roberto Leombruni, University of Turin | Severe Work Disabilities and Long-Lasting Losses |
| 06 February | Lidia Farrè, Universitat de Barcelona | Paternity leave and child development |
| 20 February | Federica Origo, University of Bergamo | Gender stereotypes and childrens’ performance in elementary schools |
| 28 February | Lorena Popescu, University of Milan-Bicocca | Chill in the air and cold front on health: exploring the effects of PM2.5 in Italy |
| 05 March | Antonio Musolesi, University of Ferrara | A Semiparametric Panel Data Model with Common Factors and Spatial Dependence |
| 11 March | Ludovico Carrino, University of Trieste | Does subsidized long-term care at home improve psychological wellbeing? New evidence on causal effects from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe |
| 19 March | Francesco Trentini, University of Milan-Bicocca | The European Skillscape. An atlas of regional skill specialisation in Europe |
| 26 March | Philipp Mennig, Technische Universität München | Yield and profitability impacts of reducing fertilisation in nitrate-polluted areas: Evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design in Bavaria, Germany |
| 04 April | Emma Duchini, University of Essex | School takeovers, leadership change, and personnel policy |
| 09 April | Michele Bernasconi, Ca'Foscari University of Venice | Quadratic welfare functions for social mobility |
| 16 April | Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University | The value of learning history |
| 23 April | Pieter Bakx, Erasmus University Rotterdam | Do delayed admissions to nursing homes increase hospital use? |
| 30 April | Gabriel Facchini, Royal Holloway, University of London | Geographical Mobility as a Bridge to Opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service |
| 07 May | Agnes Charpin, Université libre de Bruxelles | Government-Subsidised Household Production Activities and the Gender Gap in Labour Supply |
| 14 May | Daniel Michael Kreisman, Georgia State University (currently visiting professor at University of Milan) | Open the flood gates or skim the cream? Selective vs. open enrollment policies and the race for talent in Italy |
| 16 May | Tommaso Agasisti, Politecnico di Milano | Policy responses to COVID-19 and the efficiency of Italian universities |
| 20 May | Alexandra de Gendre, University of Melbourne | Same-Sex Role Model Effects in Education |
| 30 May | Maarten Lindeboom, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Why life gets better after age 50, for some: mental well-being and the social norm of work |
| 04 June | Michele Belloni, University of Turin | Labour Market Institutions and Long Term Adjustments to Health Shocks: Evidence from Italian Administrative |
| 11 June | Massimiliano Bratti, University of Milano | "Shocks" to student mobility costs and universities' enrollments |
| 17 June | Marco Sanfilippo, University of Turin | Government Demand and Firms Growth |
| 12 January | Fabio Berton, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin | Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD |
| 17 January | Michela Tincani, Department of Economics, University College London | The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices |
| 24 January | Clement de Chaisemartin, Department of Economics, Sciences PO | Two-Way Fixed Effects and Differences-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: A Survey |
| 30 January | Federico Tagliati, ADG Economics and Research, Banco de España | Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia |
| 07 March | Liran Einav, Stanford University (USA) | Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening |
| 21 March | Blanka Imre, DIW Berlin | Marital Property Regimes and Investments |
| 28 March | Stetter Christian, ETH Zurich | Identifying heterogeneous impacts of agri-environmental schemes using generalized random forests |
| 11 April | Michal Kolesár, Princeton University (USA) | The Fragility of Sparsity |
| 18 April | Pedro de Souza, Queen Mary University of London (UK) | Econometrics of Networks with Limited Access to Network Data |
| 26 April | Sauro Mocetti, Banca d'Italia | Tax evasion and competition: evidence from Italy |
| 02 May | Judit Vall Castelló, Universitat de Barcelona | Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence |
| 10 May | Catia Nicodemo | School Starting Age and ADHD |
| 16 May | Massimo Anelli, Università Bocconi | Robots Replacing Trade Unions: Novel Data and Evidence from Western Europe |
| 23 May | Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University | Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects |
| 30 May | Enrico Vanino, University of Sheffield | Catapulting into the Innovation System: Direct and Indirect Effects of Sectoral Public Support for Private Innovation |
| 06 June | Michela Giorcelli, UCLA | The Effects of Managerial Education on Manager Career |
| 20 June | Francesca Zantomio, Università di Venezia | Disability Insurance targeting and behavioural responses to benefit generosity: evidence from Italian administrative records on CVD shocks |
| 27 June | Francesca Borgonovi, University College London | Inequalities in educational achievement: lessons from the pandemic to build system-level resilience |
| 19 September | Natalia Fabra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Renewable energy and storage: friends or foes? |
| 17 October | Lorenzo Neri, University of St Andrews | Should you Meet The Parents? The impact of information on non-test score attributes on school choice |
| 07 November | Lia Pacelli & Roberto Leombruni, University of Turin | Severe Work Disabilities and Long-Lasting Losses |
| 14 November | Lorenzo Neri, University of St Andrews | Knocking it down and mixing it up: the impact of public housing regenerations (joint with Hector Blanco) |
| 21 November | Valentino Dardanoni, University of Palermo | On the Anatomy of Production Function |
| 12 December | Daniela Sonedda, University of Insubria | The heterogeneous costs of job loss when employment protection is eroded |
| 19 December | Enrico Rettore, University of Padova | Using complementary sources of data to estimate the causal effect of temp contracts on subsequent labor market outcomes |
| 11 January | Simona Iammarino, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science | The Material Basis of Modern Technologies - A Case Study on Rare Metals |
| 18 January | Philipp Boeing ZEW, Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research | Missapropriation of R&D subsidies: Estimating treatment effcts with one-sided noncompliance |
| 25 January | Marco Mariani IRPET, Regional Institute for Economic Planning of Tuscany | Direct and spillover effects of a new tramway line on the commercial vitality of peripheral streets. A synthetic-control approach |
| 08 March | Arthur Van Soest, Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University | Evidence of Behavioural Life-Cycle Features in Spending Patterns after Retirement” joint work with Johan Bonekamp |
| 15 March | Paolo Falco, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen | As long as they are cheap: experimental evidence on the demand for migrant workers |
| 23 March | Pedro S. Martins, Nova School of Business and Economics | Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts: Theory and Evidence |
| 03 May | Joan Costa-i-Font, LSE Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science | Are long term care subsidies productive? |
| 11 May | Alberto Batinti, Department of Health Management & Policy, University of New Hampshire | Does democracy make taller men? Cross-country European evidence |
| 20 May | Paolo Naticchioni, Department of Political Science and CREI, University of Roma Tre | Friday Morning Fever. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Sick Leave Monitoring in the Public Sector |
| 10 June | Nuno Crato, ISEG, Cemapre, University of Lisbon | A few things statistical analyses of PISA, TIMSS, and other ILSA studies really say about education |
| 14 June | Valeria Cirillo, Department of Economics and Mathematics, University of Bari Aldo Moro | Digital technologies, labor market flows and investment in training: Evidence from Italian employer-employee data |
| 28 June | John Van Reenen, Department of Economics, London School of Economics | OPENing up Military Innovation: An Evaluation of Reforms to the U.S. Air Force SBIR Program |
| 08 July | Pedro H.C. Sant'Anna, Microsoft Research & Department of Economics,Vanderbilt University | Efficient Estimation for Staggered Rollout Designs |
| 21 July | Jochen Kluve, KfW Development Bank - School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 15 years of ALMP meta analyses: what have we learned on methods, governance, and results? |
| 28 July | Charitini Stavropoulou, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London | The Impact of Public Funding on Early Career Researchers: An Analysis of the UK’s Medical Research Council Schemes |
| 20 September | Loris Vergolini, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna | Incentivizing family savings as way to fight educational inequality. Preliminary results from an RCT in italy |
| 27 September | Elena Villar, Department of Economics and Finance, Catholic University of Milan | The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Taxing Waste |
| 28 September | Vito Peragine, Department of Economics and Mathematics, University of Bari | Intertemporal Inequality of Opportunity |
| 4 October | Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis |
| 6 October | Simone Angioni, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari | How to manage and extract data from the ElasticSearch infrastructure. The Orbis case study |
| 10 November | Edoardo Ciscato, Department of Economics, KU (Katholieke Universiteit) Leuven | Assessing racial and educational segmentation in large marriage markets |
| 18 November | Antonio Di Paolo, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics, University of Barcelona | Earthquake exposure and schooling: impacts and mechanisms |
| 5 December | Francesco Principe, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova | Too Much Too Young: Relative Age and Adolescent Risky Behaviours |
| 20 December | Tommaso Valletti, Department of Economics and Public Policy, Imperial College Business School | Market power and political power |
| 12 January | 14.30 | Vincenzo Carrieri, Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro | Health's Kitchen: TV, Edutainment and Nutrition |
| 20 January | 14.30 | Matthieu Chemin, McGill University | Legal Knowledge, Property Rights, and Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya |
| 26 January | 14.30 | Stefano Gagliarducci, University Tor Vergata | Faith and Assimilation: The Italian Immigration to the US, with Marco Tabellini |
| 01 February | 14.30 | Janne Tukiainen, University of Turku | Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential segregation, political representation and local public goods |
| 09 February | 14.30 | Dario Guarascio, Sapienza University of Rome | Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks |
| 23 February | 14.30 | Ludger Woessmann, University of Munich and ifo Center for the Economics of Education | Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects |
| 02 March | 14.30 | Gianmarco Daniele, University of Milan | Corruption under Austerity |
| 09 March | 14.30 | Silvana Robone, Università degli studi dell'Insubria | The effect of minimum wages on health in China |
| 16 March | 14.30 | Arnstein Aassve, Bocconi University | The Impact of COVID-19 Policy Responses on Mental Well-being: Evidence from 27 European Countries |
| 23 March | 14.30 | Roland Rathelot, University of Warwick | Job search and labour market tightness during the COVID crisis |
| 13 April | 14.30 | Skerdilajda Zanaj, University of Luxembourd | The solution of the immigrant paradox: aspirations and expectations of children of migrants |
| 20 April | 14.30 | Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC Paris | Sectoral effects of social distancing |
| 27 April | 17.30 | Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis | Integration of immigrants in Europe: policies and dynamics |
| 25 May | 14.30 | Daniela Piazzalunga, University of Trento | Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies |
| 08 June | 14.30 | Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich | Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? |
| 06 July | 14.30 | Andrea Albanese, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research | Massive hiring subsidies for disadvantaged youths after the Great Recession |
| 14 September | 14.30 | Tomaso Duso, DIW Berlin | A Retrospective Study of State Aid Control in the German Broadband Market |
| 28 September | 14.30 | Michela Bia, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research | Double machine learning for sample selection models |
| 12 October | 15.30 | Kevin Denny, University College Dublin | Set identification of the effect of crime victimization on mental health & subjective well-being |
| 16 November | 14.30 | Erik Christian Montes Schütte, Aarhus University | Why is Machine Learning useful for Macroeconomic Forecasting? |
| 30 November | 14.30 | Gilberto Turati, Cattolica University | Corruption, mass media and medical staff behavior |
| 14 December | 14.30 | Michela Carlana, Harvard Kennedy School | Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on Educational Inequality, with E. La Ferrara |
9 June | 14.30 | Jonathan James, University of Bath | Do Strict Drink Drive Limits Save Lives? |
11 June | 14.30 | Mara Giua, Roma Tre University | It’s Not About The Money! EU Funds, Local Opportunities, And The Brexit Vote |
18 June | 14.30 | Emanuele Bracco, University of Verona | The Spillover Of Anti-Immigration Politics To The Schoolyard |
26 June | 14.30 | Yekaterina Chzhen, Trinity College, Dublin | Impacts Of A Cash Plus Intervention On Gender Attitudes Among Tanzanian Adolescents |
30 June | 14.30 | Anastasia Litina, University of Ioannina | Great Expectations: The Persistent Effect Of Origin Institutions On Immigrants’ Political Trust |
| 13 July | 11.30 | Ylenia Brilli, University of Verona | Influenza vaccination behavior and media reporting of adverse events |
| 8 September | 15:00 | Raf van Gestel, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam | The Value of Disease Eradication: an Application to the Double Burden of Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 15 September | 14.30 | Richard Rijnks, University of Groningen | The Groningen Social Assistance Experiments: The Effect of Choice, Obligations, and Tailored Supervision on Work and Well-Being |
| 22 September | 14.30 | Markus Jäntti, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University | Earnings and Income mobility in Sweden |
| 1 October | 14.30 | Libertad Gonzalez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain | How the covid-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain |
| 6 October | 14.30 | Lucia Rizzica, Banca d'Italia | The real effects of mafia: firm-level evidence |
| 13 October | 14.30 | Mikael Lindhal, University of Gothenburg | Estimating the returns to education using subjective expectations data |
| 27 October | 14.30 | Anna Raute, QueenMary University of London | Paid Parental Leave and Paternity Acknowledgement (joint work with Andrea Weber and Galina Zudenkova) |
| 30 October | 14.30 | Olle Folke, Uppsala University | Politicians’ Neighborhoods: Where do they live and does it matter? |
| 4 November | 14.30 | Augusto Cerqua, University of Rome Sapienza | I will survive! The impact of place-based policies when public transfers fade out |
| 11 November | 11.00 | Daniel Borup, Aarhus University | Now- and Backcasting Initial Claims with High-Dimensional Daily Internet Search-Volume Data |
| 18 November | 14.30 | Gabriella Conti, University College London | Health Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting Programs by Nurses: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial |
| 25 November | 14.30 | Andrea Ichino, European University Institute | Economic consequences of geographic sorting based on honesty (joint work with Massimo Anelli (Bocconi) and Tommaso Colussi (Cattolica)) |
| 1 December | 14.30 | Daniela Vuri, Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata” | Home Sweet Home: the Effect of Sugar Protectionism on Emigration in Italy, 1876-1913 |
| 10 December | 14.30 | Robert Lieli, Central European University, Budapest | Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects with High Dimensional Data |
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