Events calendar

Stefania Paredes Fuentes: The Economics Pipeline: Entry, Leakages, and Outcomes (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM Research Seminar

Despite the potential of economics to serve as a vehicle for social mobility and its impact on society, persistent disparities in participation and progression raise important concerns for the discipline....

AB InBev: Life of a beer bottle – from brewery to cheers (Career Centre | MUNI KC)

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM English friendly

Jakub Lonsky: Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

This study investigates the effects of California’s Senate Bill 328 (SB 328)—the first state legislation requiring later school start times for middle and high schools—on adolescent sleep, mental health,...

Julie Chytilová : Hitting Rock Bottom: Economic Hardship and Cheating (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

This paper investigates whether severe economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty. We use controlled, incentivized measures of cheating for private benefit in a large, diverse sample of 5,676...

Lyla Zhang: When Peers Buy In or Stay Out: Evidence on Social Learning and Utility in Parental Investment Decisions from a Field Experiment in China (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

How do parents respond to their peers’ choices when deciding whether and how much to invest in their children’s extracurricular education? Using a field experiment, we identify distinct mechanisms through...