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


1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	CAGE-AMES - Riccardo Di Leo (PGR) via Microsoft Teams Title: 鈥�You and whose army? Institutional trust and the end of military draft in Europe. (Work in Progress)鈥�, joint with Vincenzo Bove (糖心TV) and Marco Giani (King's College). Abstract: Some pundits and political leaders believe that the widening distance between the citizen and the state could be tackled by reintroducing military conscription. Our empirical analysis, however, shows that doing so would likely produce the opposite effect. We compare the attitudes of cohorts of militaries vs civilians across 15 European democracies and show that institutional trust is significantly higher in the latter group. To deal with selection bias, we exploit quasi-random variation of military conscription policies, and hold women (who are exempted from conscription) as a counterfactual for the attitudinal patterns captured by our RD estimates. Further analysis suggests that this result is consistent with a bottom-up ``group thinking'' mechanism, rather than with a top-down ``authoritarian legacy'' one. More information \| Tags: CAGE-AMES Workshop \|
1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	MIMA (Microeconomics Reading Group in Macroeconomic Theory) - Ivan Yotsov (PGR) via Zoom Fuller details to be advised. More information \| Tags: MIMA (Microeconomics Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory) \|
3pm - 4:15pm Export as iCalendar	CEPR Webinar: The Political Economy Webinar Series - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics) will be held on the first Wednesday of every month from September through to December 2020 at 15:00 London time. The format of the webinars will be as follows: the speaker will have 60 minutes to present their research. During those 60 minutes, questions will be limited to clarifying questions. After that, there will be 15 minutes for general questions and discussions. This series of webinars is organised by the CEPR Political Economy Group together with the Research and Policy Network on Populism and Research and Policy Network on Conflict. More information \| Tags: Political Economy and Public Economics Seminar \|
3pm - 4:30pm Export as iCalendar	Seminar in Economic Theory - Pawe Dzewulski (Sussex) via Zoom Paper to be announced. More information \| Tags: CRETA Seminar \|

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