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Twelve PhDs, Post-Docs and Professors of the Department of Economics gave entertaining 5-minutes talks on a paper in their field in Economics. The slam wants to expose the audience to a great variety of policy-relevant topics that Economics is able to contribute to.
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Presenter and papers:
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Research Paper |
Presenter |
1 |
“From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms” by Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, and Stefano Fiorin |
Bruno Caprettini |
2 |
“Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals” by Heather Sarsons |
Dina Pomeranz |
3 |
“Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of ‘Teaching at the Right Level’ in India” by Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland, and Michael Walton |
Guilherme Lichand |
4 |
“The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland” by Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, Michael Siegenthaler, and Giovanni Peri |
Andrea Hofer |
5 |
“Maternal Depression,Women’s Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial” by Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko
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Pietro Biroli |
6 |
“The impact of trade on intra-industry reallocations and aggregate industry productivity” by Marc J. Melitz |
Federica Coelli |
7 |
“Power posing: brief nonverbal displays affect neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance.” by Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J., and Yap, A. J. |
Roberto Weber |
8 |
“Press Coverage and Political Accountability” by James M. Snyder Jr. and David Strömberg |
Matteo Greco |
9 |
“The Environment and Directed Technical Change” by Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hémous |
David Hémous |
10 |
“Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement” by Cantoni, Davide, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman, and Y. Jane Zhang |
Sara Bagagli |
11 |
“Civic honesty around the globe” by Alain Cohn, Michel André Maréchal, David Tannenbaum, and Christian Lukas Zünd |
Michel Maréchal |
12 |
“Killer Acquisitions” by Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer, Song Ma |
Regina Seibel |