Seminari - Dipartimento Scienze Economiche validi dal 14.06.2026 al 14.06.2027. https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=6886 Relatore: Maria Chaykina; Provenienza: University of Verona; Data inizio: 2026-06-16; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Riassunto: Many distributive decisions occur in dynamic settings, where payments are applied repeatedly, and individuals differ in how long they remain eligible. Examples include deferred compensation, pension accrual, bonus schemes, and insurance contracts. A distinctive feature of such settings is that two individuals can be treated identically in each period yet accumulate unequal total earnings because of different participation horizons. This generates a normative tension absent in one-shot redistribution problems. In this project, we ask: which principle constitutes a fair payment rule in such dynamic contexts? Are standard fairness ideals based on static environments predictive of intertemporal allocation decisions? We develop an incentivised laboratory experiment measuring distributive choices when inequality arises along two dimensions: contribution and participation time. The design isolates whether individuals treat each dimension as normatively relevant and quantifies the corresponding fairness views. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=6886 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=7042 Relatore: Lenka Slegerova; Provenienza: University of Verona; Data inizio: 2026-06-17; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Chiara Costi; Riassunto: This study estimates the causal effects of prenatal exposure to air pollution on newborn health using population-wide administrative data from Czechia covering more than 3 million births between 1994 and 2024, linked to daily measures of multiple air pollutants across the country. While a large literature documents associations between air pollution and adverse birth outcomes, establishing credible causal effects remains challenging due to residential sorting, confounding maternal characteristics, and high collinearity across pollutants. To address these challenges, we employ a sibling fixed-effects design that compares siblings born to the same mother under different levels of prenatal pollution exposure, thereby accounting for unobserved time-invariant maternal characteristics. Our preliminary results indicate that prenatal exposure to higher levels of air pollution reduces birth weight. We find negative effects across several pollutant categories, including gaseous pollutants, particulate matter, and heavy metals. Exposure to elevated pollution levels also increases the probability of low birth weight (below 2500 g), which affects more than 5% of newborns in the sample. The strongest effects are observed for heavy metals such as nickel and lead. Additional analyses are ongoing and include alternative newborn health outcomes based on Apgar scores as well as instrumental-variable approaches exploiting exogenous variation in meteorological conditions, including wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, and surface pressure. . Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=7042 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=6876 Relatore: Deniz Erdemlioglu; Provenienza: IÉSEG School of Management; Data inizio: 2026-06-23; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona; Referente interno: Cecilia Mancini. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=6876 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=7026 Relatore: Alejandro Medina; Provenienza: University of Verona; Data inizio: 2026-06-24; Ora inizio: 12.00; Note orario: Aula Vaona. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.dse.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=null&rss=0&id=7026