12. 12. Serena Trucchi: Alcohol Consumption in an Empty Nest (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 14:00 Alcohol consumption among older adults has been drawing public health interest due to the rising use of alcohol in the growing elderly population. This paper adds to the understanding of alcohol consumption...
10. 12. Gianluca Grimalda: Market integration, egalitarianism, and reward of merit: An experimental analysis from Papua New Guinea indigenous societies (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 12:30 Extant literature proposes and finds empirical support for both a positive and a negative relationship between market integration and pro-sociality. According to a first strand of literature, market interactions...
6. 12. Leandro Navarro: Sticky gravity (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 13:00 International trade flows show strong persistence over time. This is true for yearly data and even more so for higher-frequency data such as monthly data. Standard gravity theory cannot explain the persistence,...
5. 12. Giuseppe Attanasi: Beyond the threshold: how electoral size-dependent uncertainty affects majority determination (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 14:00 Individual preferences for a specific majority threshold can be influenced by voters’ attitudes toward uncertainty. It has been theoretically demonstrated and experimentally verified that a higher majority...
28. 11. Alexander Ahammer: The Labor and Health Economics of Breast Cancer (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 14:00 We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8...
21. 11. Eva Výrostová: Cohesion Policy Grants and Corporate Performance: Insights from Slovakia (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 14:00 The evaluation of the EU Cohesion policy’s effectiveness in the literature is usually macroeconomic in nature. As recent studies highlight the importance of conducting analyses also at the micro-level,...
14. 11. Lucas Tilley: Changing legal gender with or without mandated sterilization - Impact on transgender health and earnings (Seminář z cyklu MUES) 14:00 Until 2013, Sweden required transgender people to undergo surgical sterilization before changing their legal gender. We analyze whether the removal of this requirement led to an increase in the number...
12. 11. Hana M. Broulíková: Long-term cost-effectiveness of a more precise dementia work-up (Seminář z cyklu HEPII) 15:30 Uncertainty about the long-term clinical and economic impacts of amyloid-PET hinders discussion regarding its potential implementation. This study evaluates the cost-effectiveness of incorporating amyloid-PET...