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Seminar in Economics | The Impact of Divorce Laws in the Equilibrium in the Marriage Market with Ana Reynoso

2022-02-09, 15:30 - 16:45
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Ana Reynoso, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Michigan, who will be speaking on "The impact of divorce laws in the equilibrium in the marriage market". This paper investigates how the adoption of unilateral divorce affects the gains from marriage and who marries whom. Exploiting variation in the timing of adoption across the US states, I first show that unilateral divorce increases assortative matching among newlyweds.

Seminar in Economics | An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan with Alex Teytelboym

2022-02-02, 15:30 - 16:45
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Alex Teytelboym, University of Oxford, presenting "An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan". We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to address challenges of self-control. Our Tempered Thompson Algorithm balances the goals of maximizing the precision of treatment effect estimates and maximizing the welfare of experimental participants.

Seminar in Economics | Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes with Daniel Prinz

2022-01-26, 15:30 - 16:45
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Daniel Prinz, Institute for Fiscal Studies, presenting "Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes." We study the impact of a large payroll tax cut for both younger and older workers in Hungary. The results point to important heterogeneity in the incidence of payroll tax subsidies by firm type and highlight that payroll taxes can change the composition of jobs in the labor market.

Finansiering av hållbara städer: vilken roll spelar privat kapital?

2022-01-26, 12:15 - 13:30
Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) och Cleantech Scandinavia lanserar i detta seminarium en ny forskningsrapport som diskuterar det privata kapitalets roll för att finansiera hållbara städer, med fokus på svenska kommuner.

Seminar in Economics | Are Chemists Good Bankers? with Dita Eckardt, University of Warwick

2022-01-19, 15:30 - 16:15
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Dita Eckardt, University of Warwick, presenting "Are Chemists Good Bankers? Returns to the Match between Training and Occupation". Dita analyzes the returns to training-occupation combinations using administrative panel data on apprenticeships and employment for German workers, and identifies the returns using data on occupation-specific vacancies.