{"id":5294,"date":"2024-03-08T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cesr\/?page_id=5294"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:25:53","slug":"cesr-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cesr\/cesr-events\/","title":{"rendered":"CESR Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n CESR Seminar and Brown Bag Series\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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For more information on the seminar presentations, or if you would like to attend the presentation, or to meet with any of the speakers, please contact Dan Bennett<\/a> or Dan Silver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on the brown bag presentations, or if you would like to attend the presentation or be added to our list for announcements, please contact Michele Warnock<\/a>.
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\n \n \n Rosanna Smart | RAND\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Tuesday, June 29<\/strong>
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Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Rosanna Smart is a senior economist at RAND, where she codirects both the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and the Gun Policy in America initiative, and serves as a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Her work in applied microeconomics focuses on health behaviors, illegal markets, drug policy, and the causes of gun violence. She studies topics such as substance use patterns, cannabis market changes, and the effects of medication supply disruptions, while also researching gun policy impacts across communities and identifying ways to reduce violence. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and PNAS, and she holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Brown Bag | Italo Lopez Garcia\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Brown Bag | Douglas Newball Ram\u00edrez\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Brown Bag | Evan Sandlin\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n\n \n Seminar: Personality Traits, Human Capital Formation & Economic Behavior: Exploiting Random Genetic Variation to Study the Causal Effects of Personality Traits<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Leandro Carvalho | USC CESR\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Abstract:<\/strong> Socioeconomic outcomes exhibit substantial heterogeneity across individuals. Personality traits\u2014relatively stable patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving\u2014may shape human capital accumulation and economic behavior, thereby contributing to differences in socioeconomic outcomes. However, estimating their causal effects is challenging, as early-life environments may both shape personality and independently influence later outcomes. This interdependence makes it difficult to isolate causal effects using conventional observational approaches. In this paper, we exploit random within-family genetic variation as a source of exogenous variation to study the causal relationship between personality traits and socioeconomic outcomes. A recent genome-wide association study identified genetic markers associated with the Big Five personality traits (Schwaba et al., 2025). We construct polygenic indices (PGIs) for participants of the Dutch Lifelines Biobank, whose administrative tax records allow us to measure a rich set of socioeconomic outcomes. A key challenge is that these PGIs may affect outcomes through channels other than personality, such as education and cognitive ability. To address this concern, we combine two complementary approaches: controlling for PGIs associated with alternative pathways and implementing a GWAS-by-subtraction strategy. Our results advance our understanding of the causal relationship between personality traits and socioeconomic outcomes.<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong> Leandro Carvalho is an Associate Research Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California\u2019s Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). His research spans social genomics, behavioral economics, and development economics. In social genomics, he studies how socioeconomic, behavioral, and health outcomes are causally shaped by the interplay between genetics and environment. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and others. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u2014where, despite extensive research, he has found no credible evidence that genetics determines soccer ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Past Events\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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