BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15677/13681 DTSTART:20180720T080000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T100526Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maria Bigoni LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T100626Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:Money is more than memory URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15677/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15668/13681 DTSTART:20180704T163000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T090116Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dorothea Kübler LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T100520Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:How lotteries in school choice help leveling the playing field URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15668/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15667/13681 DTSTART:20180704T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T085348Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Benjamin Enke LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T090108Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:Moral Values and Voting URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15667/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15666/13681 DTSTART:20180605T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T085220Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bart Golsteyn LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T085343Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15666/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15665/13681 DTSTART:20180516T163000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T084749Z DESCRIPTION:Self-regulation abilities are known to be a central determinant of educational success and a wide range of other important life outcomes. We conducted a randomized-controlled trial with about 600 first graders t o identify the causal effect of a targeted self-regulation training on sel f-regulation abilities\, concentration\, and educational outcomes. Results demonstrate that our self-regulation training increases long-term outcome s 12 months after treatment for attention and inhibition abilities\, self- regulation behavior\, as well as reading abilities. There is no treatment effect on math abilities\, fluid IQ\, and on one of our concentration task s. We conclude that targeted training of self-control abilities in early y ears can substantially improve these self-regulation abilities in the long run\, that these improvements potentially serve as a multiplier for the p romotion of schooling abilities\, and thus that this kind of training migh t be an effective tool to foster the skill formation process.\nSpeaker: Da niel Schunk LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T084905Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:The effects of a self-regulation training in primary schools: Evide nce from a randomized controlled trial URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15665/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15664/13681 DTSTART:20180515T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T084606Z DESCRIPTION:Two rules have figured prominently in both the descriptive and prescriptive literatures on distributive justice\, viz.\, equality and equ ity. The former refers to equal shares\, whereas the latter refers to allo cations that are in proportion to some variable\, such as hours worked or effort. We consider the possibility that worker experience with equal or e quitable compensation schemes affects their beliefs about which rule appli es. We formulate a simple model of fairness preferences that incorporates the claim of the Just World Hypothesis that people are motivated to ration alize their actual rewards\, that is\, to adjust their beliefs about what is fair in the direction of their actual allocations. A theory is formulat ed in conjunction with a natural field experiment in which Ethiopian worke rs complete a piecemeal task over a two week period. The theory predicts t hat high and low productivity workers\, whose beliefs are affected by thei r actual pay\, will respond in their work effort to changes in compensatio n schemes depending on whether they have initially been paid equally or eq uitably. The results of the experiment on worker effort are consistent wit h the changes predicted by the theory.\nSpeaker: James Konow LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T084743Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:The Just World at Work: Theory and a Natural Field Experiment URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15664/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15663/13681 DTSTART:20180425T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T084345Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Johanna Mollerstrom LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T084448Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15663/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15662/13681 DTSTART:20180425T080000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T084226Z DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Georg Weizsäcker LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T084543Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:Learning from realized versus unrealized prices URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15662/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15661/13681 DTSTART:20180417T123000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T084006Z DESCRIPTION:A large body of experimental evidence suggests that women have a lower desire to compete than men. Here\, we advance the hypothesis that this gap may depend on how we elicit such preferences\, as different incen tives could activate competition in different spheres\, depending on cultu re. This hypothesis is tested through a series of experiments using vouche rs (in-kind restricted use of cash) in China\, Colombia\, Bosnia and Togo. Data on parents show that\, once the incentives are switched from monetar y to child-benefitting\, gender differences disappear\; data on young adul t without children show that once cash is substituted by gender stereotypi cal vouchers (make-up or sporting good vouchers) gender differences decrea se. Cultural elements in each society matter\, as not all societies exhibi t a gender gap. As expected\, competitiveness is higher where resources ar e more scares\, as among the displaced women in Colombia and the women in polygyny arrangements in Togo. These results suggest that female competiti veness can be just as intense as male competitiveness\, given the right go als and considering the differential constraints that societies put on wom en and men\, indicating important implications for policies designed to pr omote gender equality.\nSpeaker: Alessandra Cassar LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T084205Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:The Competitive Woman (joint work with Y. Jane Zhang) URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15661/13681 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T032347Z UID:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15660/13681 DTSTART:20180404T150000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20181008T083527Z DESCRIPTION:The development of effective privacy policies rests critically on the question of whether people are capable of engaging in rational trad eoffs regarding the use of their personal information. This study investig ates the extent to which people's decisions in this domain exhibit consist ency with an underlying rational preference for privacy. We develop a nove l experiment in which people allocate privacy levels between different per sonal information items\, allowing us to classify people depending on whet her their choices are consistent with the Generalized Axiom of Revealed Pr eference. We find 63 percent of subjects act consistently with a rational preference ordering when allocating privacy levels\, despite the substanti al heterogeneity of privacy attitudes. We further investigate the extent t o which these revealed privacy preferences can be measured by monetary equ ivalents and whether preferences elicited over choices in our experiment h ave any predictive power for explaining real-world privacy behavior. We fi nd that the classification of rationality from choices is also predictive of monetary tradeoffs: irrational types\, on average\, squander 260 percen t more money than rational types through inconsistencies in their monetary valuations. Despite the presence of noise\, monetary valuations neverthel ess capture some of the underlying privacy preferences\, as more private t ypes require significantly more compensation for sharing personal data. Fi nally\, the measures of privacy preferences elicited in the laboratory are correlated with a widely-used question eliciting self-reported privacy co ncerns and with behavioral outcomes in real-world domains of personal info rmation sharing. We conclude that\, despite the fact that we study choices in a fairly simple decision environment\, there is considerable heterogen eity in rationality that should be considered when designing future privac y policies.\nSpeaker: Roberto Weber LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T083707Z LOCATION:MPI\, Room: Ground Floor SUMMARY:Revealed Privacy Preferences: Are Privacy Choices Rational? (with Y i-Shan Lee) URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.econ.mpg.de/events/15660/13681 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR