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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T160000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Forgotten Destinations: Ghost Towns\, Extinct Cities\, and Archaeological Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Ghost towns are places with visible infrastructure but no residents\, usually as a result of economic decline or natural disaster. Explore our collection of cartographic materials that showcase ghost towns\, ruins\, and other abandoned and destroyed locations around the world\, including some that were rebuilt. We'll have on display maps of mining camps in the West\, archaeological charts of ancient ruins in Mexico\, and more.\n\nJoin us in the Clark Library (on the 2nd floor of Hatcher) for Third Thursdays at the Library\, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections.\n\nWhile you’re here\, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the three Third Thursday Open Houses — the Clark Library\, International Studies\, and Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133533
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Maps,Library,Free
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20250312T160816
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Habit Formation in Labor Supply
DESCRIPTION:Among low income workers\, labor supply is often irregular: frequent shocks disrupt work spells\, absenteeism is high\, and many workers prefer flexible casual work to formal jobs. We examine the possibility that labor supply is habit forming—so that past labor supply levels affect preferences for future supply. We undertake a field experiment with casual urban laborers in Chennai\, India. We randomly provide some workers with small financial incentives for attendance over 7 weeks\, leading to a 23% increase in labor supply. We test for habit formation by examining subsequent impacts after the incentives are removed. First\, we see a persistent 16% increase in labor supply over the next 2 months\, resulting in a 11% increase in employment. Second\, treated workers exhibit a higher willingness to accept work contracts that are of longer duration and less flexible. They also self-report an increase in automaticity—suggesting a change in preferences. Third\, shocks that temporarily pull workers out of the labor market lead subsequent treatment effects to collapse to zero\; in the absence of these shocks\, we cannot reject that there is no decay in effects over time. Fourth\, in incentivized measures\, employers accurately predict treatment effects\, and prefer hiring workers who have been treated with a stronger habit stock in the past—findings that have relevance for understanding duration dependence and the “unemployment scar”. Finally\, in supplementary data from other settings\, we replicate short-run persistent effects of transitory labor supply shocks—indicating the broader generalizability of hysteresis in labor supply. Together\, our results suggest that the intermittent nature of employment and frequent shocks experienced in low-income settings may inhibit workers from becoming habituated to regular work—with implications for the transition to formal regular work in poor countries.
UID:132736-21871664@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132736
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar,Labor,Development
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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