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Economics Seminar Series Calendar

Seminars are held on Thursdays in CA004, Cairnes Building from 1pm, unless otherwise indicated.

If you are interested in joining the seminar series, please email us at economics@universityofgalway.ie

Seminars in Semester 1 2024-25

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 12th (Week 1)	Aidan Kane	University of Galway, Discipline of Economics	Extracting economic data from historic maps: applications to Ireland in the 1840s
September 19th (Week 2)	Roberta Ziparo	Aix-Marseille University	"Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Indonesia
September 26th (Week 3)	Daragh O'Leary	University of Galway, Discipline of Management	“The Regional Prevalence of High-Growth Firms & Start-Up Survival and Employment”
October 3rd (Week 4)	Ronan Mahon	University of Galway, Discipline of Economics,	“Recommendations for the use of Early Cost-effectiveness Analysis to inform the health technology development process with an application to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma”
October 10th (Week 5)	Helmut Rainer	University of Munich	“Diversity and Cooperation”
October 17th (Week 6)	Darragh Flannery	University of Limerick	“Does homework improve student achievement"
October 24th (Week 7)	Anne Nolan	ESRI	“Health Information and Health Behaviours: Does New Information on Hypertension Status Matter?”
October 31st (Week 8)	Asif Khan	University of Galway	“Assessing Public Preferences for Deep-Sea Ecosystem in Context of Deep-Sea Mining: A Norwegian Choice Experiment”
November 7th (Week 9)	Paolo Crosetto	French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)	“External Validity of Risk Elicitation: Measurement Error”
November 14th (Week 10)	Fabrice Kampfen	UCD	"How Effective is Population-Based Screening for Hypertension in South Africa? A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design"
November 21st (Week 11)	Garreth Gibney	University of Galway, Discipline of Economics	“Avoidance Behaviours and Constraints: Temperature and Labour Supply in the UK”
November 28th (Week 12)	Sunčica Vujić	University of Antwerp

Seminars in Semester 1 2023-24

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 7th (Week 1)	Guy Michaels	London School of Economics	Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam
September 14th (Week 2)	Asif Khan	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	Quantifying Individuals’ Willingness-to-Pay for Improved Air Quality in Delhi India: Comparing Contingent Valuation and Discrete Choice Experiment Estimates"
September 21st (Week 3)	Uta Bolt	University of Bristol	What is the Source of the Health Gradient? The Case of Obesity
September 28th (Week 4)	Agnese Romiti	University of Strathclyde	"Beliefs on Children's Human Capital Formation and Mothers at Work", which is joint work with Cesarine Boinet, Jonathan Norris and Zhan Shi
October 5th (Week 5)	Felipe Aguiar	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	"Farmers’ Expectations on Climate Action: Evidence from an Information Experiment"
October 12th (Week 6)	Pete Lunn	ESRI	"Belief Updating Among Researchers and Policymakers in Response to New Evidence"
October 19th (Week 7)	John Cullinan	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	The Commuting Paradox for Female College Students"
October 26th (Week 8)	Conal Duddy	University College Cork	"Egalitarian random assignment"
November 2nd (Week 9)	Féidhlim McGowan	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	Salience and Status: Insights from random variation in car licence plate formats"
November 9th (Week 10)	Hamideh Mohtashami Borzadaran	University of Birmingham	A healthy start for healthy start vouchers?", which is joint with Johannes Lohse and Emma Frew
November 16th (Week 11)	Neil Cummins	London School of Economics	Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021", which is joint with Greg Clark
November 23rd (Week 12)	Davide Romelli	Trinity College Dublin	"Warning words in a warming world: central bank communication and climate change” (with Emanuele Campiglio and Jérôme Deyris)
November 30th (Study Week)	Daragh Clancy	Central Bank of Ireland	“The Macroeconomic Effects of Global Supply Chain Reorientation”

Seminars in Semester 2 2023-24

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 11th (Week 1)	Alan Fernihough	Queens University Belfast	"Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century"
January 18th (Week 2)	Tom McDermott	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	'Weather shocks and household impacts: Nigeria’s 2012 floods'
January 25th (Week 3)	Rob Gillanders	Dublin City University	"Health Sector Corruption and Access to Healthcare in Africa"
February 1st (Week 4)	Daragh O'Leary		Unemployment & Entrepreneurship: The Role of Education"
February 8th (Week 5)	Matthias Perry	University of Surrey	"Household Responses to Trade Shocks"
February 15th (Week 6)
February 22nd (Week 7)	Matthew Collins	Discipline of Economics	The intergenerational persistence of intimate partner violence
February 29th (Week 8)	Cloé Garnache	Oslo Metropolitan University	Sticky Asset Prices
March 7th (Week 9)	Eleonora Fichera	University of Bath	“The Low Emission Zone impacts on physical health and wellbeing in England using survey and administrative data”
March 14th (Week 10)	Eoin McLaughlin	Heriot-Watt University	“Rethinking the geography of distress in nineteenth century Ireland: Excess mortality and the Land War”
March 21st (Week 11)	Vincent Munley	Leigh University	From the locker room to the classroom – gender roles and team interdependence as determinants of peer learning participation: evidence from NCAA Division 1 student-athletes"
March 28th (Week 12)	Laura Muñoz-Blanco	University of Exeter	"The Final Mile against Polio: Reaching the-Hard-to-Reach"
April 11th (Study Week)	Aidan Kane	Discipline of Economics, University of Galway	"Public finance in independent Ireland"