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
Economic History Workshop - Andrei Markevich
Workshop organiser: Yannick Dupraz
Title of paper: "Democratic Support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An Empirical Investigation of 1917 Constituent Assembly Elections" (co-authored with Paul Casta帽eda Dower).
Abstract - Scholars have long-debated the causes of popular support for the Russian Revolution. We systematically investigate cross-district variation in Bolsheviks鈥� popularity using voting outcomes of the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections, occurring right after the Bolsheviks seized power and drawing on an electorate of sixty million males and females. We find that the Bolsheviks managed to mobilize more popular support in districts with a greater presence of industrial workers and historically private land, which the Bolsheviks redistributed to peasants, and in districts with garrisons and military hospitals. We provide evidence that the underpinnings of this support conflicted with the Bolsheviks鈥� vision for reform, making for an unsteady coalition and forewarning the autocratic command economy to come.