Past Conferences and Seminars

Sep

12:00

The Economic Research Center (CIE), invites you to the seminar: "Management Consultancy in the Public Sector: Evidence from Greece" coauthored with Renata Lemos and Ioanna Pantelaiou.

Presented by: Alessandra Fenizia (GWU)

The seminar will take place on September 11, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in Santa Teresa´s Seminars Room.

Abstract

Improving management is challenging, particularly in the public sector, where incentives are often weak. This paper examines whether management consultancy can help overcome this challenge. We designed a management intervention aimed at reducing dropout rates and implemented it in randomly selected vocational schools in Greece. The intervention reduces student dropout by approximately 13%. The primary mechanism appears to be changes in management practices, particularly those related to apprenticeship assignments and a clearer delineation of responsibilities. The treatment effects persist one year after the end of the intervention. These findings suggest that management consultancy can be an effective tool for improving organizational performance beyond the private sector.

Sala de Seminarios, Santa Teresa

Sep

12:00

CIE Seminar-Kensuke Teshima (Doshisha)

The Economic Research Center (CIE), invites you to the seminar, presented by: Kensuke Teshima (Doshisha)

Will take place on September 4th, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in Santa Teresa´s Seminars Room

Sala de Seminarios, Santa Teresa

Aug

12:00

CIE Seminar-Eric Lewis (BYU)

The Economic Research Center (CIE), invites you to the seminar: "Rebuilding After the Storm: Firm Turnover and Consumer Welfare After Hurricane Harvey".

Presented by: Eric Lewis (BYU)

The seminar will take place on August 28, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in Santa Teresa´s Seminars Room

Sala de Seminarios, Santa Teresa

Aug

14:00

Brown Bag CIE- Luz Marina Arias

The Economic Research Center (CIE), invites you to the Brown bag: "Leveraging the Agrarian Reform: Colonial Ecosystems

and Literacy Gains in Mexico"

Presented by: Luz Marina Arias

Will take place on August 25, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Santa Teresa´s Seminars Room.

Abstract:

This article shows that the Mexican agrarian reform|long judged to have hindered rural development-|brought literacy gains to excluded communities. Using a di erence-in-di erences design with continuous treatment intensity and municipal census data (1900{1960), I show that land grants between 1916 and 1940 reduced illiteracy|but only in two of four colonial ecosystems

de ned by pueblo ethnic identity and proximity to haciendas circa 1800. I argue that the reform was a bundled reform|land granted together with schools, credit, and infrastructure|that reduced illiteracy where it relieved a locally binding constraint. In municipalities with Indian pueblos far from haciendas, the constraint was linguistic and economic isolation; the policy's

integration components raised the returns to schooling. In mestizo-close municipalities, the constraint was hacienda labor dependency; redistribution freed households to gain from preexisting structural advantages. A cochineal-region placebo con rms the mechanism is speci c to the hacienda{pueblo symbiosis. The analysis shows how colonial institutions shape the reach of policy and the geography of development.

Sala de Seminarios, Santa Teresa

Apr