Big Data Seminar

About the seminar

Description:
The Big Data seminar is an applied microeconomics seminar with a focus on empirical work using large data sets or unusual methods. We will have both external and internal speakers. Participants are encouraged to book 1 to 1 meetings with speakers close to their research.
Audience:
Senior and junior faculty members; PhD students; master students and research assistance are all welcome to the seminar.
Organizer(s):
Cäcilia Lipwoski, Luca Perdoni and Annalí Casanueva
Schedule:
Monday 11h-12h
Location:
Ifo institute, Poschingerstraße 5, Think Tank room.

Summer Term 2025

DateSpeaker (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
April 28Joonas Tuhkuri (Stockholm)Evolving Returns to Personality
May 5Hector Blanco (Rutgers, US)Local Effects of Bypassing Zoning Regulations
May 14 (Wednesday)Alex Eble
(Columbia)
Detecting the existence and impact of gender preference on career trajectories: Evidence from state administrative data
May 19Moritz Seebacher
(ifo)
May 27 (Tuesday)Ro'ee Levy
(Tel Aviv)
June 2Alexey Makarin
(MIT)
June 16Leander Andres
(ifo)
June 30Marie Theres Von Schickfus (ifo)

Winter Term 2024/25

DateSpeaker (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
October 28Cäcilia Lipowski
(ifo)
Expertise at Work: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts
November 4Filippo Pavanello
(ifo)
Co-benefits of Substance Abuse Regulation on Temperature and Intimate Partner Violence.
November 18Stephan Heblich
(University of Toronto)
Cool cities: The value of urban trees
December 2
Andreas Mense
(Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg)
Affordable Housing and Individual Labor Market Outcomes
December 9Edoardo Di Porto
(University of Naples Federico II)
Leave and let leave: the role of peers in fathers’ take up of prenatal leave.
Remarks: breaks from December 9th to February 10th and from April 14th to April 28th.