VATT Seminars

At these weekly seminars, VATT’s own researchers and outside speakers present their research findings and projects.

Seminars are held Thursdays from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM online. Registration is required. The registration link is available in connection with the seminar announcement on this page. Any questions regarding our seminar can be sent by email to events (at) vatt.fi.

Remember to also follow us on Twitter (@VATT_research) for updates regarding the seminars. The new official hashtag for the seminars is #vattseminar.

25.11.2021 Pierre Koning (VU Amsterdam)

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10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
18.11.2021 Aspasia Bizopoulou (VATT)

TBA

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
11.11.2021 Hannes Schwandt (Northwestern University)

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The seminar will exceptionally be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Finnish time.
04.11.2021 Sander Ramboer (VATT)

TBA

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
28.10.2021 Beatrix Eugster (University of St. Gallen)

TBA

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
14.10.2021 Pietro Biroli (University of Zürich)

Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom.

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
07.10.2021 Tuomas Kosonen (VATT)

Taxing the Sweet Tooth - Evidence on the Role of Substitution in Excess Burden

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
30.09.2021 Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)

Advice vs Cognition: What Matters for Job Search?

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
23.09.2021 Amelie Schiprowski (University of Bonn)

Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
09.09.2021 Raffaele Saggio (University of British Columbia)

Worker and Employer Heterogeneity in Hours Determination

The seminar will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Finnish time.
27.05.2021 Stefano Lombardi (VATT)

The costs of job loss across countries

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
20.05.2021 Andrés Barrios Fernandez (VATT)

Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital: Education Institutions and Access to the Elite (joint with Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
06.05.2021 Diego Battiston (University of Edinburgh)

Monitoring Workers through their Peers

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
29.04.2021 Floris Zoutman (NHH)

Payroll tax incidence in Norway: Evidence using a Dynamic Causal Forest

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
22.04.2021 David Seim (Stockholm University)

Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
15.04.2021 Aspasia Bizopoulou (VATT)

Do Second Chances Pay off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
25.03.2021 Tuomas Matikka (VATT)

Stairway to Heaven? Entrepreneurship, Income Dynamics and Inequality

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
11.03.2021 Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley)

Reservation Raises: The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin

Please note: The seminar will exceptionally be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
04.03.2021 Matteo Sandi (CEP, LSE)

School Indiscipline and Crime (with Tony Beatton and Michael P. Kidd)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
18.02.2021 Janne Tukiainen (University of Turku/VATT)

What Are the Priorities of Public Buyers? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Bureaucrats

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
11.02.2021 Alexander Willén (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

Postpartum job loss: transitory effect on mothers, long-run damage to children

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
04.02.2021 José Montalbán (Swedish Institute for Social Research SOFI)

Home Broadband and Human Capital Formation (joint with Sanchis-Guarner and Weinhardt)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
21.01.2021 Emily Nix (USC Marshall)

Do Richer Parents Cushion the Fall? Evidence on the Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income

3.30 PM - 4.30 PM
14.01.2021 Terhi Ravaska (VATT)

The effects of reducing working hours on health and early labour market exits

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
17.12.2020 Myra Mohnen (University of Ottawa)

Train to Opportunity: The Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility

3.30 PM - 4.30 PM
10.12.2020 Naomitsu Yashiro (OECD)

VATT Extra Seminar: Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland

2.30 PM - 3.30 PM
03.12.2020 Miriam Wüst (University of Copenhagen)

Nurses and parental health investments (with Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
26.11.2020 Meltem Daysal (University of Copenhagen)

Labor Market Effects of Life-Saving Treatments: The Case of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients (with William N. Evans, Mikkel H. Pedersen and Mircea Trandafir)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
05.11.2020 Mikko Silliman (Harvard University)

Informal social interactions, academic achievement, and behavior (with Matt Lenard)

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
08.10.2020 Cristina Bratu (Aalto University)

The intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives: evidence from Sweden

10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

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Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom.

Taxing the Sweet Tooth - Evidence on the Role of Substitution in Excess Burden

Advice vs Cognition: What Matters for Job Search?

Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments

Worker and Employer Heterogeneity in Hours Determination

The costs of job loss across countries

Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital: Education Institutions and Access to the Elite (joint with Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman)

Monitoring Workers through their Peers

Payroll tax incidence in Norway: Evidence using a Dynamic Causal Forest

Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence

Do Second Chances Pay off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students

Stairway to Heaven? Entrepreneurship, Income Dynamics and Inequality

Reservation Raises: The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin

School Indiscipline and Crime (with Tony Beatton and Michael P. Kidd)

What Are the Priorities of Public Buyers? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Bureaucrats

Postpartum job loss: transitory effect on mothers, long-run damage to children

Home Broadband and Human Capital Formation (joint with Sanchis-Guarner and Weinhardt)

Do Richer Parents Cushion the Fall? Evidence on the Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income

The effects of reducing working hours on health and early labour market exits

Train to Opportunity: The Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility

VATT Extra Seminar: Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland

Nurses and parental health investments (with Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani)

Labor Market Effects of Life-Saving Treatments: The Case of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients (with William N. Evans, Mikkel H. Pedersen and Mircea Trandafir)

Informal social interactions, academic achievement, and behavior (with Matt Lenard)

The intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives: evidence from Sweden