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
CAGE-AMES - Silvia Granato (Research Center of the European Commission)
The title and abstract of paper:
"The Causal Effect of Study Abroad on Students' Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Data on Erasmus Applications鈥� (with Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Sylke Schnepf)
ERASMUS is one of the most popular programmes financed by the European Union. It offers scholarships to higher education students funding a period of study at a foreign institution. This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect of participating in the programme on students' academic outcomes, using rich administrative data from one of the largest public universities in Italy. We rely on a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design methodology exploiting the scholarships allocation mechanism: applications to each host institution-specific call are assigned a score and ranked, and the last student who is offered one of the available scholarships determines the cut-off score. Our results show that studying abroad with an Erasmus scholarship has on average a positive, albeit modest in magnitude, effect on the final graduation mark for undergraduate students, while it has no impact on the time to graduation. The impact on the final graduation mark is remarkably stronger for graduates in the scientific and technical fields (STEM), and for students going on Erasmus earlier in their careers, for whom we also observe a reduction in time to graduation. Finally, the positive effect on the final graduation mark appears to be driven by certainprogramme characteristics, namely lower relative quality of the foreign host institution as measured by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, and a longer duration of the stay abroad.