Tomáš Holub: Inflační perioda: Stylizovaná fakta, příčiny a lekce z pohledu centrálního bankéře (MUES seminar)

10:00 AM

Nedávná inflační vlna zvedla inflaci vysoko nad cíle centrální bank. Bývalé transformující se ekonomiky měly (ne)překvapivě vyšší růst cenové hladiny než ostatní země EU. Co stálo za nedávnou inflační...

Doris Weichselbaumer: Parental Leave and Discrimination on the Labor Market (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Jakub Cerveny: Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program (HEPII Seminars

2:00 PM

This paper investigates the effects of a nation-wide conditional cash transfer program aimed to increase COVID-19 vaccination in Slovakia. Due to relatively low vaccination rates and overcrowding of hospitals...

Anthony Lepinteur: Reversing the Reversal? A Systematic Reassessment and Meta Analysis of Wellbeing Research (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly...

Michele Cantarella : Heterogeneous treatment and risk-taking biases in medication choices (HEPII Seminars

2:00 PM

In this paper we study treatment-taking responses to four different medication choices across four different classes of risk. We find that, in general, individuals are rational and prefer treatments with...

Anastasia Terskaya: Fortunate Families? The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility (HEPII Seminars

2:00 PM

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and fertility, and there...

David Perez-Mesa : Gradients in child health and gender inequality in India (HEPII Seminars

2:00 PM

This paper attempts to study the trends and patterns of gradients in child malnutrition in India based on maternal education, household wealth and birth order. We then examine the role of child gender...

Kristin Kleinjans: “Who was a stranger remained one”: The effects of the forced displacement of ethnic Germans after WWII on their children (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

At the end of World War II and as a result of it, an estimated 12 million ethnic Germans were forcibly and often violently displaced from areas in which most of them had lived for many generations. Between...