In addition to mitigating climate change, adapting to its consequences will be an important challenge in the future. Priorities must be set when implementing adaptation measures, as societies are unable to implement all desirable measures at once due to scarce resources. Techniques that help to...

Decades of twin studies have established that any conceivable human trait has a heritable component, including biologically distal traits such as personality traits, educational attainment, and income. This insight, combined with a rapid increase in the availability of genetic data, has paved...

Due to COVID-19 situation DSE2020 summer school is CANCELED

Tinbergen Institute organizes an exciting interdisciplinary summer school entitled: ‘Introduction in Genome-Wide Data Analysis’. The summer school is taught by Philipp Koellinger and Niels Rietveld, two leading experts in the field. The summer school welcomes (research) master students, PhD...

This course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will also make you familiar with models developed to explain socioeconomic disparities in health and competent in empirical methods used to estimate socioeconomic determinants of health. The course is targeted at economists...

This course covers economic analysis of health inequality. It will arm students with tools to both measure and explain socioeconomic disparities in health. While predominantly taking the perspective of economics, the course will also introduce students to the epidemiology of socioeconomic...

The topics covered at the NCCR Climate Summer School 2011 will include: - Ecological implications of climate change and weather extremes - Ecosystem services and climate change: forests, grasslands and croplands - Food security: coping with climate change in agriculture - Global land and water...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...