6 Apr 2023

Jay Walker: Mental health and school entry age: Relative age effects within cohort (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

There is an established literature looking at the effects of school entry age and age within cohort on general well-being, social capital, and measures of human capital formation. in primary and secondary...

29 Mar 2023

Tom Broekel: News and regional development (MUES seminar)

10:00 AM

It is well-recognized that news coverage varies significantly between countries. The differences include what events are reported at what frequencies and in what tones. It is also well established that...

29 Mar 2023

Michal Biron: Crafting telework: A conceptual process model and some empirical evidence among individuals and teams (MUES seminar)

9:00 AM

In this talk, I will describe a model explicating telework as a dynamic process, theorizing that teleworkers continuously adjust – their identities, boundaries, and relationships – to meet needs for competence,...

27 Mar 2023

Sorath Shah: Willingness to use application-based taxi pooling services: Impacts of fare, route matching, detour time, and waiting time (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

The rapid development of information technology and smartphone applications has introduced new and unique transportation services. This article introduces one of these recently established systems in South...

23 Mar 2023

Zach Porreca: The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Exploiting a novel data set of criminal trials in 19th century London, we evaluate the impact of an accused’s right to counsel on convictions. While lower-level crimes had an established history of professional...

1 Mar 2023

Michela Boldrini: Scapegoating migrants during a crisis can be socially and politically ineffective or even counterproductive (MUES seminar)

4:00 PM

During economic, health, or political hardships, politicians often leverage citizens’ discontent and scapegoat minorities to obtain political support. This paper tests whether political campaigns scapegoating...

23 Feb 2023

Renata Kosíková: The association between cognitive abilities, economic preferences and personality traits (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

This paper examines how cognitive and non-cognitive abilities relate to economic preferences. Cognitive abilities are a comprehensive structure of abilities (attention, memory, intelligence, etc.) that...

22 Feb 2023

Hannah Illing: Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This paper studies the labor market effects of out- and in-migration in the context of cross-border commuting. It investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German...

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Jay Walker: Mental health and school entry age: Relative age effects within cohort (MUES seminar)

Tom Broekel: News and regional development (MUES seminar)

Michal Biron: Crafting telework: A conceptual process model and some empirical evidence among individuals and teams (MUES seminar)

Sorath Shah: Willingness to use application-based taxi pooling services: Impacts of fare, route matching, detour time, and waiting time (MUES seminar)

Zach Porreca: The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London (MUES seminar)

Michela Boldrini: Scapegoating migrants during a crisis can be socially and politically ineffective or even counterproductive (MUES seminar)

Renata Kosíková: The association between cognitive abilities, economic preferences and personality traits (MUES seminar)

Hannah Illing: Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration (MUES seminar)