Seitlicher Blick auf das D4 Gebäude.

Internal Economic Research Seminar

Thursday, May 23

18:00 - 19:30
Fireside chat with Nithin Umapathi (Senior Economist, Worldbank) “Navigating the Demographic and Technological Change: Insights from 15 Years of World Bank Policy Advice on Welfare and Labor”

Friday, May 24

09:30 - 10:15
Edoardo Cefala
“Determinants of the Belief in (Fake) News”

10:15 - 11:00
Francesco Scarazzato
“The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India”

11:30 - 12:15
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
“Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance”

12:15 - 13:00
Michael Pfarrhofer
“Nowcasting with mixed frequency data using Gaussian processes”

16:30 - 17:15
Stefan Halbauer
“Fathers’ Parental Leave and Job Separations in Austria”

17:15 - 18:00
Martin Halla
“Son Preference and Mental Health of Fathers”

Saturday, May 25

09:30 - 10:15
Klaus Ackermann (Monash)
“Counterfactual Predictions in Shared Markets: A Global Forecasting Approach with Deep Learning and Spillover” Considerations

10:15 - 11:00
Simon Heß
“Kinship Networks, Local Elections, and Female Representation: Evidence
from Nepali Voter Registration Data”

11:30 - 12:15
Tingmingke Lu
“High-Rise Housing and Urban Sustainability”