The UCL Department of Economics announces research seminars for Week 7 of Term 1 2024

CReAM Research Seminar
Speaker: Yannis Kastis, UCL.
Title: Job Market Practice: 'Organizational Practices and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Jewish Immigration and the Garment Sector in England’.
Date: Monday 4 November, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: South Wing, 9 Garwood LT - visit the location on a map.
Directions: Enter the main gate of UCL in Gower Street; go to the right corner at the far side of the quad; enter through the door with the plaque: Wilkins Building- South Cloisters; make a sharp right turn; go upstairs to the first floor; take the door to your left and walk along a corridor; the Garwood LT is at the middle of the corridor and the entrance is past the middle set of double doors.
Seminar organiser(s): m.vera@ucl.ac.uk, f.gerard@ucl.ac.uk.

CEMMAP Research Seminar
Speaker: Joerg Stoye, Cornell University.
Title: 'Robust Treatment Choice: A View From Partial Identification’.
Date: Tuesday 5 November, 1230-1330hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B20 Jevons- visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): daniel.j.lewis@ucl.ac.uk, b.deaner@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series; Seminar signup.

Human Capital and Labor Markets Research Seminar
Speaker: Anna Adamecz, UCL SRI.
Title: 'Conceptions, Births, and Abortions around Employment Shocks’.
Date: Tuesday 5 November, 1430-1530hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.

THEBES Research Seminar
Speaker: Chiara Aina, Pompeu Fabra.
Title: 'Tailored Stories: To what extent is it possible to manipulate beliefs by providing interpretations of unknown events?’
Date: Tuesday 5 November, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B03 Ricardo LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): duarte.goncalves@ucl.ac.uk, d.kattwinkel@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series. 

Macro Research Seminar
Speaker: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University.
Title: ' Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of a Nonlinear Phillips Curve’.
Date: Wednesday 6 November, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, BO6 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): a.olivi@ucl.ac.uk, l.rachel@ucl.ac.uk.

IFS Research Seminar
Speaker: Erika Deserranno, Northwestern/Bocconi.
Title: ‘Gender Disparities in the Welfare Effect of the Minimum Wage’.
Date: Wednesday 6 November, 1230-1345hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): rozeena.newell@ifs.org.uk.

Finance Research Seminar
Speaker: Maarten Meeuwis, WUSTL Olin
Title: ‘Time-Varying Risk Premia and Heterogenous Labor Market Dynamics’.
Date: Wednesday 6 November, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B20 Jevons - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): jihee.yoon@ucl.ac.uk.

IFS-UCL-LSE Research Seminar
Speaker: Michele Giannola, University of Naples/IFS.
Title: TBC
Date: Thursday 7 November, 1400-1500hrs. 
Venue: IFS 4th Floor South - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): britta_a@ifs.org.uk.

PhD Research Seminar
Speaker: Oliver Anderson, UCL.
Title: 'The long shadow of childhood economic disadvantage’.
Date: Friday 8 November, 1200-1300hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, Room 321 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): lyujia.liu.20@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar signup.