“a16z Podcast: The Macro and the Micro of Parenting.” With Fabrizio Zilibotti, Kevin Zollman, and Hanne Tidnam.” September 5, 2017.
We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts — screen time, to code or not to code — but actually, there’s a bigger, macro picture at play there: game theory, economic incentives, culture, and more. So in this back-to-school episode of the a16z Podcast, two economists — Kevin Zollman, game theorist and philosopher at CMU and author of The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting; and Fabrizio Zilibotti, macroeconomist at Yale working on a book called Love, Money and Parenting — share their expertise on parenting through the lens of economics.
The hallway-conversation (with Hanne Tidnam) covers how these theories play out in practice — for example, when the kids are bickering in the back seat of the car — to how parents can balance altruism vs. paternalism when it comes to thinking about their kids’ future vs. their kids’ reality of living in the now. And then finally, how do different parenting styles, corporal punishment, education, and of course, technology, play a role in how we parent?
“R&D Misallocation and TFP Growth in China,” Invited lecture at the Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2017, Hong Kong, June 4, 2017.
“Growing & Slowing Down Like China” (summary (click here) and full lecture (click here))
European Economic Association’s 2016 Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.
“La crescita economica cinese: passato, presente e futuro” (in Italian),
Conference of Swiss Finance Institute, Lugano, May 30, 2016.
“Le relazioni fondamentali fra Ricerca e Sviluppo di un Paese” (in Italian),
Intervento al convegno “Il futuro della ricerca in Italia”, 2016.
“China: The Great Convergence and Beyond” ,
Annual Conference of the “Verein für Socialpolitik”, Münster (Germany), 2015.
“Laudation for Daron Acemoglu” ,
Munich Lectures in Economics 2015.
“China’s Great Convergence and Beyond”
WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences, Berlin, May 5, 2014.
“China: The Great Convergence and Beyond ” ,
Barcelona GSE Summer Forum 2014 .
“Renminbi Globalization – The Macroeconomic Perspective”
UBS International Center of Economics in Society, 2013.
“The future of the international financial system” ,
UBS International Center of Economics in Society, 2012.
“inaugural “Forum for Economic Dialogue” and future events” ,
UBS International Center of Economics in Society, 2012.
Radio Broadcast Plusvalore (in Italian)
“Economia e crescita, incontro con Fabrizio Zilibotti. Il miracolo economico cinese “
“Se il mercato ignora i due clowns…”
“John Nash: Quest’uomo era un genio.”
“La politica industriale della Repubblica Popolare Cinese”
“L’umanesimo produttivo dell’astrazione matematica”
“Il ranking delle Università di Shanghai 2014”
“Il mercato immobiliare elvetico”
“Il dilemma della riforma delle pensioni”
“Conflitti, rifugiati e superpotenze”
“La macro-magia di Alibaba e…”
“Mamme tigre e disuguaglianza economica”
“Il vicolo cieco della confrontazione con la Russia”
“Iniziativa Moneta Intera: un salvadanaio inutile e costoso”
“Il prezzo del petrolio e i mercati in altalena”
“Innovazione e disuguaglianza”
“I sacrifici e i compromessi necessari per vincere la guerra al terrore”
“Uno spettro si aggira per l’Europa”
“Conflitti etnici e capitale sociale”
“Tragedia greca o commedia europea?”
“Nubi e speranze nel cielo di Milano”
“Il premio Nobel di economia 2011: Tom Sargent e Chris Sims”
“Ricerca di base e dibattito pubblico”
“Credibilità della Politica Economica”
“Democrazia, bavagli e progresso economico”
“Le Nubi sul Mezzogiorno Europeo”
“Profezie vane e crescita economica globale”
“Istituzioni deboli e cattivi consigli”