Events calendar

5 Feb

Alessandro Stringhi: Guilt and Fairness (MUES seminar)

10:30 AM Research Seminar

Guilt Aversion and Inequity Aversion are pivotal concepts in understanding human behavior in situations involving trust dynamics. Inequity Aversion explains trustworthiness through a preference for fairness,...

7 Feb

Alireza Khoshghadam: Partial Retirement and Labor Supply: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Sweden (MUES seminar)

10:30 AM Research Seminar

The declining share of the working-age population (20-64) has led many countries to introduce social security reforms to extend the working lives of older employees. While reforms such as raising the early...

17 Feb

Cyril Thomson: Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools (MUES seminar)

12:30 PM Research Seminar

How do ties with elite peers affect the social mobility of non-elites who have historicallyfaced social exclusion? Using novel data on high school and university graduates in five colo-nial Indian provinces...

19 Feb

Sorath Shah: From Spontaneity to Planning: Understanding Long-Distance Travelers' Mode Choice Preferences for BlaBlaCar Carpooling, Bus, and Train in Central Europe (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM Internal Seminar Seminar

This study examines the mode choice preferences of long-distance travelers in Central Europe among carpooling, trains, and buses. Using three months of operational data from BlaBlaCar, a multilevel mixed-effects...

19 Feb

Melike Kokkizil: Parental Religiosity, Educational Attainment, and Gender Equality (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

This study examines how parental religiosity influences children’s education. Using Turkish census data for primary-school completion outcomes of individuals born in 1924-1984 and withinyear variations...

21 Feb

Tam Mai: Social Network Formation and Exam Fraud: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

The proliferation of standardized testing has raised concerns about its distortionary effects on both school and student behavior. While previous literature has extensively documented high-powered misconduct...

25 Feb

Olatz Roman: Children, Household Specialization and Relationship Quality (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM Research Seminar

We investigate how having children impacts the quality of couples’ relationships, a proxy of the non-material gains from being in a relationship. Using a novel measure of relationship quality (RQ), we...

26 Feb

Gergely Hajdu: How Does Choice Affect Beliefs? (MUES seminar)

11:00 AM Research Seminar

We investigate howchoosingone of two products influences beliefs about their quality. Ina laboratory experiment, we deal with the endogeneity in choices by carefully constructinginformation that we provide...

26 Feb

Magdalena Adamus: Curbing conspicious (conspiracist and suspicious) mindset through social-psychological insights on intergroup attitudes – experiences with writing the ERC proposal and future plans (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM Internal Seminar Seminar

During the seminar I will share my experiences with writing the ERC proposal, describe the process and share insights into how to best plan, manage and execute the preparation process. The main focus of...

27 Feb

Dominika Šeblová: Number of Children, Motherhood Penalties and Dementia (HEPII Seminars

2:00 PM Research Seminar

Does having children make you lose your mind? This study investigates the causal relationship between the number of children and the risk of dementia among parents, addressing longstanding questions about...

February 2025

Alessandro Stringhi: Guilt and Fairness (MUES seminar)

Alireza Khoshghadam: Partial Retirement and Labor Supply: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Sweden (MUES seminar)

Cyril Thomson: Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools (MUES seminar)

Sorath Shah: From Spontaneity to Planning: Understanding Long-Distance Travelers' Mode Choice Preferences for BlaBlaCar Carpooling, Bus, and Train in Central Europe (MUES seminar)

Melike Kokkizil: Parental Religiosity, Educational Attainment, and Gender Equality (MUES seminar)

Tam Mai: Social Network Formation and Exam Fraud: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed (MUES seminar)

Olatz Roman: Children, Household Specialization and Relationship Quality (MUES seminar)

Gergely Hajdu: How Does Choice Affect Beliefs? (MUES seminar)

Magdalena Adamus: Curbing conspicious (conspiracist and suspicious) mindset through social-psychological insights on intergroup attitudes – experiences with writing the ERC proposal and future plans (MUES seminar)

Dominika Šeblová: Number of Children, Motherhood Penalties and Dementia (HEPII Seminars