The UCL Department of Economics announces research seminars for March 24 - 28 2025

CReAM Seminar
Speaker: Natalie Bau, UCLA.
Title: 'The Long-Term Effects of School Quality in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From 15 Years of Data'.
Date: Monday 24 March, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Bedford Way (26) 305 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): m.vera@ucl.ac.uk, f.gerard@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series; Seminar signup.

Human Capital and Labor Markets Research Seminar
Speaker: Weilong Zhang, University of Cambridge.
Title: 'Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings: Understanding the Mechanisms'.
Date: Tuesday 25 March, 1430-1530hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): rozeena.newell@ifs.org.uk.

THEBES Research Seminar
Speaker: Kirby Nielsen, California Institute of Technology.
Title: 'When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods' (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim, Aldo Lucia, and Charles D. Sprenger).
Date: Tuesday 25 March, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, B03 Ricardo LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organisers: duarte.goncalves@ucl.ac.uk, d.kattwinkel@ucl.ac.uk.

Macro Seminar
Speaker: Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern.
Title: 'Behavioral Sticky Prices'.
Date: Wednesday 26 March, 1300-1430hrs. 
Venue: G21 Ramsay LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): a.olivi@ucl.ac.uk, l.rachel@ucl.ac.uk.

IFS Seminar
Speaker: Marianne Bitler, UC Davis.
Title: 'Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data'.
Date: Wednesday 26 March, 1230-1345hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): rozeena.newell@ifs.org.uk.

Applied Micro Research Seminar
Speaker: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University.
Title: 'Demand for Urban Exploration: Evidence from Nairobi'.
Date: Thursday 27 March, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): joao.granja@ucl.ac.uk.

PhD Research Seminar
Speaker: Federico Pessina, UCL.
Title: 'Firm growth with product space'.
Date: Friday 28 March, 1200-1300hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, B03 Ricardo LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): lyujia.liu@ucl.ac.uk.

IFS-UCL-LSE DEV Research Seminar
Speaker: Maurice Kulger, George Mason University.
Title: TBD.
Date: Thursday 27 March, 1400-1500hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): britta_a@ifs.org.uk.
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                                                         Events

Festival of Early Stage Researchers 
Date: Tuesday 1 April and Wednesday 9 April
Info: Calling all doctoral researchers and early career academic and research staff. You are invited to the Festival of Early-Stage Researchers (FESR), taking place between Tuesday 1 April and Wednesday 9 April. The annual Festival of Early-Stage Researchers (FESR) celebrates the invaluable contribution UCL’s early-career researcher (ECR) community makes towards research and innovation and is an integral part of your career development journey at UCL. Co-organised by doctoral and early career researchers, the exciting festival programme includes interactive workshops, expert panels, networking opportunities and our community celebration. Join the festivities and enhance your professional and personal skill sets, prepare for career next steps, share experiences, and build your cross-disciplinary connections. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with researchers from across UCL and take an active part in one of the UK's biggest researcher communities!
Link: see the full programme and register for festival events.

Applied Micro Research Conference
Topic: Inequality, Minimum Wages and Allocation of Labor
Date: Friday 9 May
Venue: B03 Ricardo LT, Drayton House
Organisers: Attila Lindner, Pedro Carniero
Programme:
10:05: Welcome
Session 1: Inequality
10:10 – 11:00: Lucas Conwell and Gabriel Ulyssea: Slums and Income Mobility
11.00 - 11.50: Michela Tincani: How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions
Session 2: Methods
13:00 – 13:50: Marcos  Vera Hernandez: More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile
13:50 – 14:40pm: Hyejin Ku:  Gender Differences in Education Migration
Session 3: Minimum Wages
15:00pm – 15:50pm: – Jonas Hjort: Footloose Enough? Multinationals, Domestic Firms, and Job Creation in Developing Economies as Wages Rise
15:50pm – 16:50pm – Attila Lindner: Heterogeneous Effects of Minimum Wage Policies
Drinks: Euston Tap