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In this paper, the authors uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its risk of cultural extinction.
Drawing on the complete British population censuses, the author documents asylum residents’ characteristics and confirm that women were disproportionately represented.
This paper proposes an autoregressive difference-in-differences model that explicitly incorporates serial dependence and enables the estimation of treatment effects many periods into the future.
In this paper, the authors provide novel approaches for modelling and forecasting the tail behaviour of time series.
This paper uses a rigorous instrumental variables approach with a machine learning component to examine the impact of facility-based delivery on child, maternal and household outcomes in Africa.
The authors' conducted a Randomized Control Trial to ask, can household welfare be improved with a universal program provided to everyone in a community?
Can strengthening local legal enforcement capacity increase the effectiveness of child marriage law.
Frank DiTraglia paper proposes a simple, novel, and fully-Bayesian approach to causal inference in a partially linear model with treatment D and control variables X
The authors formalize, under the name of games of addition, the strategic interaction between agents who sequentially take actions, but may also agree unan ask how do people come to think of themselves as having more or less in common with others?
The authors investigate whether an agency can increase employment by strategically coarsening information about workers’ skills and abilities to employers.
The authors discuss the Impact of Low Emission Zones on sick leave, mental well-being and health.
The authors ask how do people come to think of themselves as having more or less in common with others?
Moritz Lenel and Rohan Kekre study the source of exchange rate fluctuations using a general equilibrium model accommodating shocks in goods and financial markets.
Lory Barile and Atisha Ghosh estimate the relationship between different types of engagement activities in forums designed to facilitate peer assisted learning and students’ performance in an undergraduate second year course in economics.
The author(s) paper shows that tax revenue responses to changes in tax rates crucially depend on how the changes affect the marginal tax rate relative to the average tax rate.
sing data from the Annual Population Survey 2014-22, the authors' decompose the trends in the employment rates of disabled people, non-disabled people (and hence the disability employment gap) and working-age people overall.
In this paper, the authors find that the benefits of a low-cost early-life health intervention transfer from one generation to the next.
Andrea Tesei's paper investigates the effect of rising anti-immigrant sentiment in European democratic host countries on support for democracy in African migrants’ origin communities
Kim-Sau Chung paper studies a model where different citizens have different preferences over different public goods.
Kim-Sau Chung paper looks at Designing Open Source licences
Using an event studies design and newly constructed cross-country panel data, Alex Chan offers novel causal evidence on the impact of presumed consent laws on donation rates
Alex explains how and why he has used technology to have a positive impact on his teaching.
Mishel Ghassibe (et al) study intertemporal pass-through (iPT): the sensitivity of firms’ prices to changes in their expected future marginal costs
Kenichi Nagasawa's paper discusses developing a new identification strategy for treatment effects when noisy measurements of unobserved confounding factors are available.
The paper revisits whether global output is (Pareto) efficiently distributed across countries over time.
Audrey Hu's study addresses a theoretic-bandit problem involving a "safe" and a "risky" armacross countable periods.
The authors study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly refuse to viewtheir private signals.
Emir will be presenting the paper “Comparison of Signals” (see abstract below) in which he studies the comparison of signals beyond the usual “Blackwell” comparisons.
2nd Durham – York Biannual Macroeconomics Workshop
Zhijie Xiao's paper investigates robust inference procedures for treatment effects in panel data with flexible relationship across units via the random forest method.
Stephen Kastoryano's paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the underreporting of police killings.
Paul Johnson explores UK economy costs, government spending impact on welfare, education, health, and future prospects.