CC-ME Seminar Series | Knowledge for policy

Microeconomic Evaluation

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.

13 January	Valentin Cocco, Centre international de recherche sur l’environnement et le développement	Manipulating the Common Agricultural Policy: a RDD evaluation of Green Payments on Ecological Focus Areas in France
20 January	Sergi Basco, Universitat Barcelon	Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network: Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
10 February	Javier Viviens, European University Institute	Difference-in-Differences and Changes-in-Changes with Sample Selection
03 March	Tommaso Agasisti, Politenico Milan	Enhancing Student Resilience Through Socio-Emotional Skills: Evidence from PISA 2022
17 March	Marica Valente, University of Innsbruck	Quantifying Informal Farm Employment From Migration Waves
24 March	Annika Herr, Leibniz University Hannover	Concentration and Prescribing Behaviour in Primary Care
14 April	Nicolas Ziebarth, ZEW Mannheim	Private vs. Public: Firm Responses to New State Entitlement Program
21 April	Stuart McIntyre, University of Strathclyde	From Custody to Community: Post-release Supervision and Re-Offending
28 April	Jochen Kluve, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Linking KfW-Financed Aid Projects and FDI: Global Evidence at the Sub-national Level
05 May	Hertweck Friederike, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research	The effect of computer science at higher education institutions on local labour markets
18 May	Alex Bryson, University College London	Rising Despair among the Young: The Importance of Survey Mode
19 May	Alex Bryson, University College London	The Gender Wage Gap among Those Born in 1958: A Matching Approach
09 June	Giovanni Gallo, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia	The cost of superstition on academic performances

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 Read the dedicated Blog post
04 February	Pedro Luis Silva, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES)	When Girls Enter STEM Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
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	Beyond Correlations: How Assessment Design Shapes Meaningful Impact Evaluation
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
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)
28 May	Erich Battistin, University of Maryland	The Long Term Eects of Teacher Wage Dierentials
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	Coal Phaseout and Local Jobs
02 July	Michael Jetter, University of Western Australia	Demobilizing Rebels: Identities, Emotional Cues, and the FARC

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 Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
23 April	Pieter Bakx, Erasmus University Rotterdam	Do delayed admissions to nursing homes increase hospital use? Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog Post
28 March	Stetter Christian, ETH Zurich	Identifying heterogeneous impacts of agri-environmental schemes using generalized random forests Read the dedicated Blog Post
11 April	Michal Kolesár, Princeton University (USA)	The Fragility of Sparsity Read the dedicated Blog Post
18 April	Pedro de Souza, Queen Mary University of London (UK)	Econometrics of Networks with Limited Access to Network Data Blog post: CC-ME Seminar Series with Sauro Mocetti
26 April	Sauro Mocetti, Banca d'Italia	Tax evasion and competition: evidence from Italy Read the dedicated Blog Post
02 May	Judit Vall Castelló, Universitat de Barcelona	Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence Read the dedicated Blog Post
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 Read the dedicated Blog Post
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 Read the dedicated Blog Post
06 June	Michela Giorcelli, UCLA	The Effects of Managerial Education on Manager Career Read the dedicated Blog Post
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 Read the dedicated Blog Post
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

30 September	Carlos Velasco, University Carlos III	Instrumental variable estimation via a continuum of instruments with an application to estimating the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption
28 October	Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University	Incentives and Self-Selection in Grant Applications Across Fields and Programs
11 November	Joshua Tucker, NYU	From Search Engines to Answer Engines: Testing the Effects of Traditional and LLM-Based Search on Belief in Misinformation
18 November	Letizia Gambi, Faculty of Economics and Business KU Leuven	The Effect of a School District Consolidation Policy on Student Achievement and Staff Absenteeism
25 November	Patrick Premand, World Bank	Medium-term impacts of dual apprenticeship for youth
02 December	Catherine Van der List, University of Essex	Reshaping the Economy? Local Reallocation Effects of Place-Based Policies (with Sarah Fritz)
09 December	Sergi Basco, Universitat de Barcelona	Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network: Evidence from Multinational Enterprises

17 September	Corinna Ghirelli, Bank of Spain	The impact of El Niño and La Niña on Euro area inflation Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
15 October	Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona	News Consumption, Multi-homing, and Advertising Strategies Read the dedicated Blog post
21 October	Ludovico Carrino, University of Trieste	Measuring Social Inclusion in Europe: a non-additive approach with the expert-preferences of public policy planners Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post
03 December	Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Climate change and migration: the case of Africa Read the dedicated Blog post
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 Read the dedicated Blog post

Originally Published \| Last Updated	26 May 2020 \| 15 Apr 2026
Knowledge service \| Metadata	Microeconomic Evaluation

More information and links