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October 24, 2022
C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Getting to Net-Zero: A Canadian Perspective
The world needs to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century for a chance at limiting warming to less than 1.5°C. Last year, the Canadian government followed the lead of other nations and legislated a goal of net-zero by 2050. Achieving this goal requires shifting from incremental to transformational approaches…
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October 24, 2022
"The Making of a Public Sector Worker: The Causal Effects of Temporary Work Assignments to Poor Areas"
This paper analyzes how temporary work assignments to poor areas affect preferences, beliefs, and career choices. We exploit random variation in the assignment of healthcare workers within a one-year mandatory rural service program in Peru. We show that healthcare workers that were assigned to poorer areas are more altruistic…
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October 13, 2022
CITP Seminar: Can We Reconcile the Computer Science and Legal Views of Privacy?
Law and computer science interact in critical ways within sociotechnical systems, and recognition is growing among computer scientists, legal scholars, and practitioners of significant gaps between these disciplines that create potential risks for privacy and data protection. These gaps need to be bridged to ensure in the…
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Robertson Hall, Scudder Plaza fountain
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October 13, 2022
The Russian Invasion: A Roundtable Discussion with Visiting Scholars from Ukraine
Robertson Hall, Scudder Plaza fountain
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October 13, 2022
The Political Influence of City Employees: Civil Service Adoption in America
CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM Sarah Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science, Berkeley. The Political Influence of City Employees: Civil Service Adoption in America
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October 12, 2022
The Euro after Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine
Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of European Law at Dublin City University, in Ireland, where he is also the Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and the Director of the Law Research Centre. In academic year 2022/3 he is a Fellow in Law, Ethics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Federico holds a PhD degree in…
Economics of Climate Change poster, Oct. 11
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October 11, 2022
New Approaches to the Economics of Climate Change: Urgency, Scale, Opportunity
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics; and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Economics of Climate Change poster, Oct. 11
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October 11, 2022
CITP Seminar: Participatory User Data Collection and Potential Futures for Platform Accountability: The Case of Mozilla Rally
As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem. In this talk, the…
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October 11, 2022
Restrictions on Migration Create Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children’s access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a regression-discontinuity design based on school…
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October 10, 2022
Politics at Work
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more…