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
AMES (Applied Microeconomics Early Stage) Workshop - Shruti Agarwal and Chris Burnitt (PGRs)
Two 30 minutes presentations.
i) Shruti will present Public Access, Feasible Choice, and Social Sorting
Exposure to out-group peers in childhood can shape trust, cooperation, and shared norms. Schools are a primary venue for such contact, but sorting across schools within local markets determines who meets whom. This paper estimates the causal effect of increased nearby public-school access on caste segregation across public primary schools. Using geocoded administrative data from rural India over 13 years, I construct distance-based local education markets and measure within-market segregation and peer exposure. I exploit a national reform that tightened proximity standards, using baseline eligibility for the reform as an instrument for realised local access. IV estimates indicate that expanding nearby public-school access increases segregation across public schools. Mechanism evidence is consistent with re-sorting across incumbent public schools: enrolment shifts away from mixed-composition schools, the cross-school distribution of composition becomes more dispersed, and students鈥� exposure to out-group peers declines, widening exposure gaps. The results suggest that supply-side expansions in public provision can raise segregation by creating new margins for same-group sorting within the public sector.
ii) Chris will present Failure to launch political campaigns: The impact of candidate dropout on electoral campaigns and voter preferences.