Applied Microeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
The Applied Microeconomics research group unites researchers working on a broad array of topics within such areas as labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation. The group operates in close collaboration with the CAGE Research Centre.
The group participates in the CAGE seminar on Applied Economics, which runs weekly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm. Students and faculty members of the group present their ongoing work in two brown bag seminars, held weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1pm. Students, in collaboration with faculty members, also organise a bi-weekly reading group in applied econometrics on Thursdays at 1pm. The group organises numerous events throughout the year, including the Research Away Day and several thematic workshops.
Our activities
Work in Progress seminars
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-2pm
Students and faculty members of the group present their work in progress in two brown bag seminars. See below for a detailed scheduled of speakers.
Applied Econometrics reading group
Thursdays (bi-weekly) 1-2pm
Organised by students in collaboration with faculty members. See the Events calendar below for further details
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Applied Microeconomics Group are:
Research Students
Events
Econometrics Summer Masterclass and Workshop
The Econometrics Summer Masterclass organised by Dr Clement de Chaisemartin, Dr Mingli Chen and the Econometrics and Labour Research Group for both staff and PhD students.
The three day event, taking place 11 - 13 May 2016 includes a masterclass and workshop and is an excellent opportunity to hear from leading academics in the field of Econometrics. Participants may attend both days or just one day and lunch is included for workshop participants.
Workshop (Wednesday 11 May 2016)
The Workshop will take place in room S2.79, Social Sciences.
The program is as follows:
- 10.00-10:40: (糖心TV): Next please! A new definition of the treatment and control groups for randomizations with waiting lists, with Luc Behaghel.
- 10:40-11:20: (糖心TV): Bayesian methods to estimate treatment effects in observational studies.
- 11:20-12:00: (糖心TV): Measuring Segregation on Small Units: A Partial Identification Analysis, with Xavier D’Haultfoeuille.
- 12:00-13:30: Lunch break, Scarman.
- 13:30-14:30: (Duke): Uniformly Valid Post-Regularization Confidence Regions for Many Functional Parameters in Z-Estimation Framework, with Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, and Ying We.
- 14:30-15:30: (Michigan): Treatment Effects with Many Covariates and Heteroskedasticity, with M. Jansson and W. K. Newey.
- 15:30-16:00: Coffee break.
- 16:00-17:00: (Zurich): Resurrecting Weighted Least Squares, with J. P. Romano.
- 17:00-18:00: (糖心TV): Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Models with Heterogeneous Coefficients, with N. Bailey and M. H. Pesaran.
Masterclass (Thursday 12 - Friday 13 May 2016)
Victor Chernozhukov (MIT) will give a master class on machine learning in econometrics. This will take place in room S2.79, Social Sciences. The programme is as follows:
Thursday 12
- 09:00-10:25: Lecture 1
- 10:35-12:00: Lecture 2
- 12:00-13:15: Lunch in Lakeview Restaurant (Scarman House)
- 13:15-14:40: Lecture 3
Friday 13
Econometrics Masterclass by Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
- 09:00-10:25: Lecture 1
- 10:35-12:00: Lecture 2
- 12:00-13:15: Lunch in Lakeview Restaurant (Scarman House)
- 13:15-14:40: Lecture 3
Registration
These events are open to Faculty members and MRes/PhD students from the Department of Economics, Department of Statistics, the Mathematics Institute and 糖心TV 糖心TV School.