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Ben Groom (London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 20, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
Measures of inequality aversion and pure time preference are elicited in environmental domains using hypothetical decision tasks. Estimates are elicited using comparisons of inequalities across space and time, with gain/loss and past/present contextual framing. Inequality aversion is shown to...
Anne Kandler (Max Planck Institute)
Toulouse: IAST, May 17, 2019, 11:30–12:30
Understanding how social information is used in human populations is one of the challenges in cultural evolution. Fine-grained individual-level data, detailing who learns from whom, would be most suited to answer this question empirically but this kind of data is difficult to obtain, especially in...
Hôtel Marriot Opéra, Paris, May 17, 2019, 08:30–12:30
Manufacture des Tabacs - Bat F, Toulouse, France: TSE, May 17–18, 2019, room MS001, MS002
Bologna, Italy, May 17–18, 2019
Jonathan Weigel (London School of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, May 16, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
I examine a field experiment randomizing door-to-door tax collection across 431 neighborhoods of a Congolese city. I test the hypothesis that citizens will demand more inclusive governance when they are taxed. As predicted, the campaign increased political participation by 5 percentage points (28...
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 16, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We investigate models of cheap talk, information disclosure, and Bayesian persuasion, in a unified experimental framework. Our umbrella design permits the analysis of models that share the same structure regarding preferences and information, but differ in two dimensions: the rules governing...
Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute)
TSE & IAST, May 15, 2019, 12:30–13:30, MS003, room MS003
Rosa Matzkin (University of California - Los Angeles)
TSE, May 14, 2019, 15:30–17:00, room MS 003
Emil Temnyalov (University of Technology Sydney)
Toulouse: TSE, May 14, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
I study differential treatment policies, such as affirmative action in school assignment, university admissions, labor market hiring, and promotions within organizations. I consider an assignment model where a policy-maker assigns agents to different positions or treatments, to maximize surplus....
