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Paul E. Smaldino (University of California, Merced)
Toulouse: IAST, June 20, 2023, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
The world is rapidly changing, leading to new societal challenges. At their core, many of these challenges are social, highlighting the need for effective theories of social change. Theories of cultural evolution are perhaps the best candidates for a unifying framework for understanding social...
TSE Building, June 19, 09:00 to June 20, 2023, 17:00
Felix Dwinger
Toulouse: IAST, June 16, 2023, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Information manipulation and repression are usually considered as separate survival mechanisms for autocrats. I distinguish targeted from mass repression and argue that targeted repression is essential for information manipulation. An autocrat grants regime outsiders opportunities to publicly...
June 15, 2023, room Auditorium 3
The workshop is an opportunity for PhD students to present their work to the community, gather feedback regarding their research, and foster discussions and interactions among the community. As part of the workshop, professors have been invited to discuss the papers at the end of each presentation.
Azim Shariff (University of British Columbia)
Toulouse: IAST, June 13, 2023, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building)
Whether and how religion contributes to moral behaviour has been a perennial question across the social sciences—and one that has stubbornly resisted compelling answers despite years of study. But those answers have been becoming clearer as our methodologies have been refined. In this talk, I will...
Paul Scott (University of New York, Stern School of Business)
TSE, June 12, 2023, 14:15–15:30, room Auditorium 4
We estimate a model of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia with two sources of dynamics: deforestation costs and herd management. Following Rosen, Murphy, and Scheinkman (1994), cattle exhibit non-standard supply responses because of cattle's role as both output and capital stock. While herd size...
Annemie Maertens (University of Sussex)
Toulouse: TSE, June 12, 2023, 11:00–12:15, room Auditorium 4
China’s expanding poultry industry relies heavily on antibiotics use. This has given rise to concerns regarding bacterial resistance. In this study we worked together with a broiler contractor and evaluated the effects of a two-pronged approach through a randomized controlled trial: Providing micro...
June 12–13, 2023
Brussels, June 9, 2023, 09:00
June 8, 2023, 09:55–15:00, room Auditorium 5
