Session 1: DAGs and the Structural Causal Model: Introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 4 “Directed acyclical graphs”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.htmlComplementary reading: Pearl et al. 2016 "Causal inference in statistics: a primer", sections 1.4 and 1.5 (pages 24-32)
23/Sep - Emanuele Citera: The network origins of aggregate fluctuations: a demand-side approach13/Oct - Gustavo Pereira Serra: Household borrowing for Consumption and Investment in Human Capital: a neo-Kaleckian approach4/Nov - Vinicius Curti Cícero: Three essays on FDI and uneven development25/Nov - Guilherme Spinato Morlin: Inflation and conflicting claims in the open economy15/Dec - Yin Stan …
Michele Alacevich (Associate Professor of History, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Bologna) will discuss the history of development economics looking for analytical insights that can inform policy-making in the development field today. The focus will be on the political economy of development, and on how theoretical debates and the practice of development …
Ezra Karger, PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago will present his work: The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s. Abstract:Between 1890 and 1921, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of 1,618 public libraries in cities and towns across the United States. I link these library construction grants to census …
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What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, or Displacer?29 September, 11am ETLong Chen, Anton Korinek and John Van Reenen Discussants in follow-up session: Cecilia Rikap (CONICET, Argentina & Université de Paris and Université de Technologie de Compiègne,France), Veronica Robert (CONICET-UNSAM) Session detailsHuman societies have always coevolved with technology, but how can we think of technology? Is it …
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Session 2: Potential outcomes: introduction Reading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 5 “Potential outcomes causal model”)Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html
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Is this Time Different? Artificial Intelligence & Robots06 October, 12pm ETSidarth Suri, Jed Kolko, Fei-fei Li, Rob Johnson Discussant in follow-up session: Thomas Herndon, Shu Li Session detailsAre there aspects of modern technology, made possible by unprecedented computing power and connectivity, that make them distinctively different from previous eras? If so, what are the implications? …
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Session 3: Matching and subclassificationReading: Cunningham 2020 (Ch. 6 "Matching and subclassification")Available at: https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html
While the Recovery Fund seem to have given new impetus to the creation of EU-level policies to fight the pandemic, the German Constitutional Court ruling on the ECB actions during the Eurozone crisis has casted doubts on the capacity of the central bank to support the single currency.On May 5 the judges in Karlsruhe ruled …
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This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview In past decades, industrial strategy has received only marginal attention from academics and policy-makers in most advanced nations. But recently, interest has revived! The imminent climate crisis is forcing nation states to determine how they may respond, and collaborate, …
