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...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed on electricity market design. The goal is to offer some economic tools and simulation models using elements of game theory, auction theory, and industrial organization that will allow...

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 school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies for work and...

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...