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
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Eleonora Alabrese (PhD)Cowling Room, S2.77The Work Programme, Benefit Sanctions and Protest Voting (joint with Thiemo Fetzer) Abstract: The Work Programme (WP) was an EU sponsored active labour market welfare-to-work programme in the UK introduced in June 2011 by the coalition government and affecting around 2 million individuals. Rewarded work programme providers helped welfare claimants finding a job through payment-by-result contracts. The program was radical in both scale and approach, caused a substantial public outcry, and lead to a substantial amount of media coverage questioning its effectiveness. This paper studies the WP and specifically focuses on intended and unintended effects. We exploit exogenous variation due to the random assignment of individual referrals to individual contractors. This generates, at a finer geographic level, excess referrals whereby a contractor has to handle out of chance more cases referred than they expected. This strengthens incentives to 鈥渟kim the cream鈥�. We document that excess referrals are strongly and causally associated with a subsequent increase in benefit sanction referrals, which in turn produce financial grievances. We further investigate whether these WP-induced benefit sanctions had an impact on political outcomes and broader social and economic outcomes such as local election support for UKIP, support for Leave, etc. The latter is not unlikely as the Work Programme made the European Union immediately salient for all WP participants as all letters and communication were mandated to be branded with the European Union flag, as it co-financed by the European Union cohesion fund. |
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CRETA Seminar - Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI)S2.79Title is Choice Simplification: A Theory of Mental Budgeting and Naive Diversification . Seminar organisers: Sinem Hidir & Costas Cavounidis |