KTI szeminárium: Hermann Zoltán - A COVID időszak hatása az iskolai teszteredményekre

2023.03.02.

Hermann Zoltán, Boza István: A COVID időszak hatása az iskolai teszteredményekre Absztrakt : Azt vizsgáljuk, hogy a COVID időszak, az iskolabezárás és az online oktatásra való átállás, milyen változásokkal járt a tanulói teszteredményekben, és ezek a változások milyen iskolai jellemzőkkel függtek össze. Becsléseinkhez az Országos Kompetenciamérések egyéni szintű adatait használjuk fel. Először részletesen bemutatjuk, hogy hogyan […]

KTI Szeminárium: Amanda De Pirro - With a Little Help From My Enemy: Intellectual Property Rights in Fascist Italy

2023.02.23.

Amanda De Pirro – With a Little Help From My Enemy: Intellectual Property Rights in Fascist Italy  Absztrakt : Anecdotal evidence suggests that intellectual property recognition is often a politically driven mechanism. In this paper, I use novel data from the Fascist period in Italy to investigate the link between local political support and the granting of […]

KTI Szeminárium: Felix Weiss: Does a bridge close the gap? The role of travel distance to university for inequality in higher education choices. Results from a natural experiment.

2022.12.15.

Abstract : Geographical distance between young adults residence and the nearest university is known be related to enrolment in higher education. At the same time, participation in higher education and. the field of study choices depend on social origins. We hypothesize, that less privileged students more often live further away from higher education and that […]

KTI Szeminárium: Francesca Leombroni: Extra-curricular internships and sorting by socio-economic status

2022.12.08.

13.00-15.00 KTI Szeminárium: Francesca Leombroni: Extra-curricular internships and sorting by socio-economic status This paper investigates whether, and due to which channels, university students from different socioeconomic backgrounds differ in their propensity to choose an internship as their access point to the labor market. After presenting evidence that individuals from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to start […]

KTI Szeminárium: Alison Schultz - Guns and Kidneys: How Transplant Tourism Finances Global Conflict

2022.12.01.

13.00-15.00 Abstract This paper investigates the impact of organ trafficking on local conflict using georeferenced data on conflict events and hand-collected data on local transplant infrastructure in eight countries known for illegal transplanting. I exploit exogenous variation in kidney demand measured by the number of U.S. waiting list patients, their payment capacity, and their physical […]