Research Seminars  2025

Tuesday, usually 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm, room D130 (any change mentioned below).  

The research seminar is organized by Prof. Christelle Dumas and Prof. Mark Schelker.

How to add the ecopol research calendar to your calendar:

• In Outlook: go to Calendar, then "Open calendar" (in Home), select "From Internet" and copy paste the link.
• In Google Agenda: click on the small arrow right to "Autres Calendriers/Other calendars", select "Ajouter par URL/Add by URL" and copy paste the following link. 

• May

  May 6,
  Presenter: Alexandra "Ali" Cirone, London School of Economics

  
  La Mobilière Lecture Series

  May 13,
    from 4:30pm - 5:45pm, room E230
  Presenter: Dr. Marica, Valente (Universität Innsbruck)
  Title: Quantifying Informal Farm Employment From Migration Waves

  Abstract:
  We introduce a “forensic” approach to detect and quantify firm-level informal employment caused by migration shocks. Focusing on agriculture and exogenous variation from the Arab Spring wave along southern Italian coasts, we use machine learning techniques to identify abnormal increases in reported labor productivity on vineyards exposed to the shock. Misreporting is heterogeneous and highest in small, remote farms. The migration shock causes a 6% rise in informal employment, corresponding to one job for every three farms on average, and 23,000 informal jobs over 2011-2012. Informal hiring increases farm profits, primarily due to labor costs reductions.
  
  

  May 20,
  Presenter: Claude Rasairo, IHEID 

  May 27,
  Presenter: Timo Schenk, Erasmus University