1 Dec 2022

Diya Abraham : Motivational Effects of Feeling Trusted (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

I investigate how workers respond to learning that a manager trusts them less than she does their peers. In a laboratory experiment, responsibility for a manager’s earnings is divided unequally between...

24 Nov 2022

Isha Gupta: The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Discrimination in Human Capital Formation: Evidence from India (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes...

10 Nov 2022

Luca Corazzini: Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This paper assesses whether facilitating the digital access to healthcare services impacts healthcare utilization. We exploit the introduction of a user-friendly web portal allowing women aged 25-65 to...

27 Oct 2022

Marco Catola: Curbing energy consumption through voluntary quotas: Experimental evidence (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This paper studies experimentally the use of voluntary consumption quotas as a strategy to deal with energy shortages. We run an online experiment where subjects play a two-round Nash demand game that...

26 Oct 2022

Silvia Leoni: Higher educational decisions: An agent-based model of comparison between Italy and Germany (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Tertiary education is largely accepted to be one of the most important determinants of lifetime earnings and, consequently, of social mobility. Despite low tuition fees and limited entry barriers, Italy...

24 Oct 2022

Veronica Pizziol: Contributing to the European public budget? An experimental comparison across countries (MUES seminar)

4:00 PM

In this paper, we use contribution decisions in a multilevel public goods game to investigate attitudes toward national public budgets and the European public budget in six countries members of the EU:...

20 Oct 2022

Sofia Trommlerová: The Impact of Lockdown during COVID-19 on Abortion-Seeking Behavior in Spain (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

We estimate the impact of lockdown during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on abortion-seeking behavior in Spain. We exploit the unexpected announcement and immediate implementation of a strict,...

27 Sep 2022

Alpaslan Akay: Non-Cognitive Skills and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This paper investigates how non-cognitive skills, e.g., memory, empathy, attention, imagination, and social skills – measured by personality characteristics – relate to the relative labour market performance...

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Diya Abraham : Motivational Effects of Feeling Trusted (MUES seminar)

Isha Gupta: The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Discrimination in Human Capital Formation: Evidence from India (MUES seminar)

Luca Corazzini: Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment (MUES seminar)

Marco Catola: Curbing energy consumption through voluntary quotas: Experimental evidence (MUES seminar)

Silvia Leoni: Higher educational decisions: An agent-based model of comparison between Italy and Germany (MUES seminar)

Veronica Pizziol: Contributing to the European public budget? An experimental comparison across countries (MUES seminar)

Sofia Trommlerová: The Impact of Lockdown during COVID-19 on Abortion-Seeking Behavior in Spain (MUES seminar)

Alpaslan Akay: Non-Cognitive Skills and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants (MUES seminar)