Trends in the global economy, technological change, and inequality pose fundamental challenges for the future of our societies. With its crucial role for future prosperity and cohesion, the educational achievement of the population promises an important lever for policy to empower people to face...

Als Gruppe von Ökonomen und Politikwissenschaftlern untersuchen wir Formen, Ursachen und Folgen von Voreingenommenheit, insbesondere auf Nachrichtenmärkten und in sozialen Medien. Die wichtigsten Fragen von Interesse sind: - Wie können Medienverzerrungen definiert und gemessen werden? - In...

The goal of this event, which will take place both virtually and in person at Humboldt University of Berlin, is to assess how platform cooperatives have responded to the pandemic, analyze inhibiting and supportive policies, and zoom in on current experiments with data cooperatives, token...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...

This workshop has been cancelled.

The transformation of energy systems has profound implications for the ways in which our societies are organized, and must therefore be understood as process of social change and social innovation. This conference therefore invites international scholars to discuss social innovations in the...

Advocates of the platform economy present it as a new way of organizing work and value creation and as a fundamental and efficient alternative to the “old economy”. Traditional workplaces and employment are replaced by platforms organizing crowds of formally independent freelancers. There...

Sir Richard Blundell will discuss the ways in which people decide on different options, which criteria weigh in on decisions, how individual wages relate to household income, and which role savings have for these decisions. Sir Richard Blundell is Professor of Political Economy at University...

Recently, new approaches to research on philanthropy have deepened our understanding of giving behavior. Those new developments include the ascent of field experiments and growth of lab experiments on fundraising where charities are perceived as active parties. Others include the influence of...