Archive 2019-2020
Alcohol and short-run mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition
WZB Talk by Kai Barron
The impact of student finance policy on student employment
WZB Talk by Krzysztof Czarnecki
Building State Capacity: What is the impact of development projects?
WZB Talk by Stuti Khemani
Did sanctions help Putin?
WZB Talk by Aleksandra Peeva
Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences: a Guidebook for Fieldwork Protection and Digital Security
WZB Talk by Ilyas Saliba and Jannis Grimm
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How to Make the Perfect Citizen? The Instrumentalisation of Civic Virtue in China's Social Credit System
WZB Talk by Liav Orgad
Trumpism in America
WZB Talk by Peter Katzenstein
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Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners
WZB Talk by Vojtech Bartos (with Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlikova, and Julie Chytilova)
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Worried about the Corona Virus? Tell Each Other about it!
WZB Talk by Valentina di Stasio
Games Played by Teams of Players
WZB Talk by Thomas Palfrey
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Anti-feminist Backlash in the UN
WZB Talk by Jelena Cupać and İrem Ebetürk
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Attention and Decision Making
WZB Talk by Peter N.C. Mohr
Advice, Social Learning and the Evolution of Conventions and Culture
WZB Talk by Andrew Schotter
Beliefs in Repeated Games
WZB Talk by Guillaume Fréchette
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Unconscious or Behavioral: Psychological States in International Law
WZB Talk by Ríán Derrig
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7 July 2020, 5 pm
The Essential Role of External and Construct Validity for Causal Identification
WZB Talk by David Brady
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
WZB Talk by Davide Cantoni
The Strength of Weak Ties: Education Externalities and Intergenerational Mobility in Benin
WZB Talk by Leonard Wantchekon
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Face Masks Increase Compliance with Physical Distancing Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
WZB Talk by Yiming Liu and Jana Friedrichsen
How Do We Choose Our Identity?
A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
WZB Talk by Moses Shayo
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The Virus That Knows No Borders?
Border Permeability and the Global Diffusion of COVID-19
WZB Talk by Ruud Koopmans
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The (not so) Secret Science behind US Campaigns
WZB Talk by David Nickerson
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Lying Aversion
WZB Talk by Agne Kajackaite
Inequality, Identity, and the Mobilization of Resentment
WZB Talk by Daniel Ziblatt
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Social and political correlates of Covid-19
WZB Talk by Macartan Humphreys
It’s not just balancing liberty vs. life & health: Some basic rights surrounding Corona restrictions
WZB Talk by Mattias Kumm
Degendering: How the conception of women’s part-time work changed in Norway
WZB Talk by Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Anatomy of a Riot: Participation in Communal Violence in Nigeria
WZB Talk by Alex Scacco
New ethical principles for field research
WZB Talk by Macartan Humphreys
Social preferences in refugee and host community children: an experiment at Jordanian double-shift schools
WZB Talk by Steffen Huck
Gender, Beliefs, and Coordination with Externalities
WZB Talk by Timothy Cason
A Vote for Europe? The 2019 European Parliament Election from the Voters' Perspective
WZB Talk by Edgar Grande
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments at Public Offices
WZB Talk by Dorothea Kübler