El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título - ¨Affective Neuroscience Meets Labor Economics: Life Skills Assessments and Measurements on Late Stage Investment on at-Risk Youth¨

Autor y Presentador - Pablo Egaña Del Sol (Columbia University)

Abstract:

There is a common puzzle in the labor economic literature in which expected impacts from social programs on socio-emotional skills, which are assessed through self-reported psychometric tests, are mismatched with empirical quantitative evidence (Card et al., 2010; Almlund et al., 2011; Calero et al., 2014). Furthermore, recent meta-analysis concludes that studies using self-reported psychometric tests to proxy socio-emotional skills face potentially significant measurement errors that lead to inconsistent impact evaluations (Heckman and Kautz, 2014). Hence, this paper seeks to contribute in three dimensions. First, using novel data, it provides a rigorous estimate of the impact of a program to foster creative and life skills for at-risk youth in a formal educational setting in a developing country context. Second, using neurophysiological and survey data from field experiments, it explores plausible methodologies to improve measurements of cognitive, socio-emotional and creative skills. In particular, it is plausible that programs affect the degree to which participants modulate their own emotions, which in turn affects their self-perception, and thus, their responses in self-reported psychometric tests to assess non-cognitive skills. Third, using field experiment neurophysiological recordings, it measures emotional responsiveness as a proxy for behavioral response.

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 6 de enero de 13:00 a 14:00 hrs, en  la Sala P-307 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.