📢 Department Seminar Alert
🎤 Ana Rodríguez-González (University of Barcelona)
📝 Non-Toxic Peers: Long-Run Returns from an Anti-Bullying Program
🕜 13:30–14:30 | 📍 Sala de Graus
#EducationEconomics #EconSeminar
Applied Lunch Seminar 🍽️📚
Pedro Silva (UAB)
"Income-Based Affirmative Action, Take-up Rate, and University Enrollment"
🗓 March 10, 2026
⏰ 13:30
📍 Seminari A
#ecconomics #education #econseminar
📢 Department Seminar
Jordi Jofre-Monseny (Universitat de Barcelona)
“When Leases get Longer: The Impact of Tenure Security in Rental Markets”
🗓 March 5, 2026
🕜 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
Everyone is welcome!
#economics #econseminar #rentalmarkets
🎓 PhD Thesis Defense
Ece Yagman
“Essays on Human Capital Formation: Socioemotional Skills, Gender Gaps, and Social Identity in Schools”
Director: Caterina Calsamiglia (Tutor: Xavier Ramos)
🗓 April 7, 2026 | ⏰ 14:00
📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat Economia i Empresa
💻 Also via videoconference
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar Alert!
👤 Speaker: Simone Moriconi (IESEG School of Management)
📚 Topic: "Migration policy backlash, identity and integration of second-generation migrants in France"
🗓️ Date: March 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 13:30
📍 Location: Seminari A
#economics #migration #econseminar
🚨 Department Seminar Alert 🚨
Mathias Thoening (University of Lausanne)
“Feeding the Tigers: Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka”
📅 February 26th, 2026
🕜 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Alejandro Gobierno García (PhD candidate at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on:
“The Impact of Interpersonal Trust on Firm Size”
🗓 February 24th, 2026
⏰ 13:30
📍 Seminari A
Looking forward to seeing you there!
🚨 Department Seminar Alert 🚨
🎙️ Marta Serra-Garcia (UC San Diego)
📌 The Attention–Information Tradeoff (paper enclosed)
📅 February 19th, 2026
🕜 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
💡 How does information transmission change when it requires capturing attention?
#Economics #Seminar
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar — Spring Term 2026 Kickoff!
We’re excited to welcome Rui Yang (UAB, PhD candidate) for our first seminar of the term:
🎤 “Gender Gap in the Creator Economy: Evidence from U.S. Top YouTubers”
📅 February 17th, 2026
🕜 13:30
📍 Seminari A
Everyone is welcome — see you there! 🍽️📊
Applied Lunch Seminar Alert 🍽️📊
Join us for Ilaria De Angelis (Bank of Italy):
“Moneyball for Public Policy: Micro-evidence on the Effectiveness of Public Guarantees and Grants in Italy”
📅 Dec 9, 2025
🕐 13:30
📍 Seminari A
Pleased to share that Kenneth Castillo-Hidalgo (@kcastillohidalgo.bsky.social), who completed his PhD in the Applied Economics Department, has published a chapter of his thesis in The Annals of Regional Science. 📘👏
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar
Join us for Maximilian Schäfer-i-Paradís (UAB):
“Keeping Up with the Joneses: Asset Investment during the South Sea Bubble”
🗓️ Dec 2, 2025
🕐 13:30
📍 Seminari A
Excited for our department seminar today! 🎓
Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto School of Business) will present:
“The role of firms in shaping the work, study, and graduation choices of student employees.”
📅 Nov 27, 2025
🕒 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
Excited for today’s Applied Lunch Seminar!
Ece Yagman (UAB) will present “Gender Gaps in Socioemotional Skills: Evidence from the Classroom.”
📅 Nov 25, 2025
🕒 13:30
📍 Seminari A
#seminar #gender #appliedeconomics
📢 Department Seminar Alert!
Audinga Baltrunaite (Bank of Italy)
“The Value of Words: Evidence from Non-Financial Disclosure Regulation”
🕒 13:30 • Sala de Graus
#seminar #research #economics #BankOfItaly
📢 New working paper out!
“Gender Gaps in Socioemotional Skills: Evidence from the Classroom”
by Ece Yagman (UAB)
📄 Read the working paper here: ddd.uab.cat/record/321410
#socioemotionalskills #genderequality #economicsofeducation #workingpaper #UAB #GEAR
📢 PhD Thesis Defense at UAB
Celebrating Diana C. Gutiérrez González 🎓, who successfully defended her PhD in Applied Economics!
Her dissertation: “Understanding the Effects of the Venezuelan Immigration in Colombia”
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar at UAB
Bruno Carvalho (Universidad de Alcalá) will present
“When Schools Close: Mothers' Burden, Bargaining Power and a Gender-neutral Policy”
🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 – 13:30
📍 Seminari A
📢 DEA Departmental Seminar
🗓️ Thursday, Nov 13 | 13:30–14:30
📍 Sala de Graus
🎙️ Jan Eeckhout (UPF, BSE)
📖 "The (Un)fortunate Poor"
#Economics #Seminar #Inequality #LaborEconomics
🎓 PhD Defense – Paloma Heredia Ruíz
Paloma successfully defended her thesis in Applied Economics, “Climate, Pollution and Technical Efficiency in Spanish Agriculture”. 🌱📊
Congrats to Dr. Heredia Ruíz on this achievement!
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar at UAB
Caroline Coly (UB) will present
“The Bystander Issue: Understanding the Role of Beliefs in Workplace Sexual Harassment”
🗓️ Nov 4, 2025 – 13:30
📍Seminari A
#EconSeminar #AppliedEconomics #BehavioralEcon
🎓 Job Market Candidate 2025/26 – PhD in Applied Economics (UAB)
The Department of Applied Economics at UAB is pleased to present our 2025/26 Job Market Candidate:
Ece Yagman
Job Market Paper: Gender Gaps in Socioemotional Skills: Evidence from the Classroom
Advisor: Caterina Calsamiglia
📢 Department Seminar
Join us for Rosa Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) presenting “Gender Differences in the Demand (and Supply?) of Broadcast Media Content”
📅 October 30, 2025 | 🕜 13:30 | 📍 Sala de Graus
📢 Join us for our next Applied Lunch Seminar!
Marcela Carvalho (London Business School) presents:
🧠 “Who gets the benefit of the doubt? CEO gender and news about firm performance”
📅 October 28th, 2025 – 13:30
📍 Seminari A
📢 Department Seminar Alert!
Join us for Andrea Ichino (EUI & Università di Bologna) presenting:
“College, cognitive ability, and socioeconomic disadvantage: policy lessons from the UK in 1960–2004”
🗓️ October 23rd, 2025
🕐 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
🎓 Applied Lunch Seminar
📅 Tuesday, Oct 21 | 13:30–14:30 | Seminari A
🎤 Pablo Brugarolas Navarro (Univ. of Girona)
🧩 When early gains fade: The limits of dynamic complementarity under austerity
#EconSeminar #EducationPolicy #AppliedMicro
🎓 PhD Thesis Defense
Diana C. Gutiérrez González (PhD in Applied Economics) will defend her dissertation:
“Understanding the Effects of the Venezuelan Immigration in Colombia”
📅 November 19, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa
👩🏫 PhD Director: Rosella Nicolini
📢 Department Seminar Alert:
Join us for a seminar by Vincente Salas (Universidad de Zaragoza):
🗓 October 16, 2025 – 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
📖 “Pass-through of policy interest rates and the market power of banks”
📢 Applied Lunch Seminar Reminder
Join us today, October 14th at 13:30 (Seminari A), for a talk by Dalila Figueiredo (Max Planck Institute) on
🧠 “Familiarity, Test Performance and Implications for Fairness.”
Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion!
#AppliedLunchSeminar
📢 Department Seminar alert!
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (UC Chile) [joint with UFAE] presents:
“(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa”
🗓️ October 9, 2025
🕐 13:30
📍 Sala de Graus
#EconSeminar #AppliedEconomics
