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Preliminary Conference Program

The conference will be held at Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration (address: Lipová 41, Brno).

Each presenter is allocated 20 minutes, which includes time for questions and discussion. We advise you to prepare a 15-minute presentation and plan for 5 minutes of discussion.​

Wednesday - May 21 (optional program)

An optional course will be available for YEM participants taught by James Tremewan (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
Venue: Room S306, ESF MUNI, Lipova41a, Brno, Czech Republic
The course is provided for free, please confirm your participation by email.

Faking data (in a good way): size, power, and the replication crisis
In this short course, we will look at some examples of how simulating data can be a useful tool for achieving more replicable research. The size and power of statistical tests are the two parameters that tell you how much you should update your prior about the truth of a hypothesis after observing the outcome of an experiment. We will first discuss "exact tests," where the size is mathematically correct, and show through simulations how tests that rely on asymptotics or unverifiable assumptions can lead to underestimating the rate of false rejections of the null. We will then use the same method to perform bespoke power analysis in a way that takes account of the actual tests you will be using and your best guess of the distributions of data you will gather. Finally, we will use simulations to investigate how poor experimental design and publication bias can lead to exaggerated statistical significance and magnitudes of treatment effects.

Session 1: Wednesday, May 21, 12:30 – 15:30
Session 2: Thursday, May 22, 10.00 – 13.00

We cordially invite YEM participants to attend a public lecture by David Neumark organized within the Masaryk University Seminar series.

Title: Field Experiment Evidence on Age Discrimination and Age Stereotypes
Time: Wednesday, May 21, 16:30 – 18:00 
Venue: Mendel Museum, Mendlovo nám. 1a, 603 00 Brno-střed

Thursday - May 22

  • 13:30 - 15:00 | REGISTRATION (Faculty lobby)

  • 15:00 | WELCOME REMARKS (Room P101)

  • 15:15 - 16:30 | SESSION 1 (Room P101)

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics

    Katharina Adler (University of Würzburg)
    Gender Discrimination in Online Negotiations - Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Theodor Kouro (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute)
    Let Me Choose What I'm Best at: A Natural Field Experiment with Volunteers

    Dylan Thompson (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Concert-induced streaming: Estimates of the dynamic inter-temporal effect of concert demand on recorded music consumption

  • 16:30 - 17:00 | Afternoon Break – Tea and Coffee (Faculty lobby)

  • 17:00 - 18:15 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room P101)

    Dorothea Kübler: Are hiring algorithms acceptable and useful? Evidence from the lab and the field

  • 18:30 - 21:30 | WELCOME DRINK (Faculty green roof)​

Friday - May 23

  • 9:00 - 9:30 | REGISTRATION – Tea and Coffee (Faculty lobby)

  • 9:30 - 10:30 | SESSION 2

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics
    (Room P102)

    Zhuokun Liu (Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Stereotypes and Memory

    Melisa Kurtis (University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
    Risk Denial & Meritocracy

    Luisa Lorè (University of Innsbruck)
    Environmental costs and belief updating in second-hand clothing purchase: A voucher choice experiment

    Gender
    (Room P106)

    Julia Francesca Engel (Kiel University)
    Chess, Gender, and Touranment Dynamics

    Klea Ibrahimi (CEU)
    The Careers of Women Inventors

    Sebastian Zalas (University of Warsaw)
    Revisiting gender board diversity and firm performance

  • 10:30 - 11:00 | Mid-morning break – Tea and Coffee (Faculty lobby)

  • 11:00 - 12:00 | SESSION 3

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics
    (Room P102)

    Matthias Holzmann (KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt)
    Excuse My Behavior: Social Norms and Moral Costs

    Francesca Marazzi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    Who Cares? Responsibility, Redistribution, and Political Ideology

    Education
    (Room P106)

    Tina Rozsos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
    Switch happens: were school switchers initially assigned to the wrong schools?

    Julio Garbers (LISER)
    Small Pictures, Big Biases: The Adverse Effect of an Airbnb Anti-Discrimination Policy

    Lukas Jonas (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)
    The effect of computer science at higher education institutions on local labour markets

  • 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH

  • 13:00 - 14:15 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room P101)

    David Neumark: What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? – Recent Progress

    The U.S. research literature on the employment effects of minimum wages is often described as contradictory and conclusive. In this lecture, Prof. Neumark will present new evidence from a survey and empirical analysis that shows that indeed most work finds that higher minimum wages reduce employment of low-skilled workers, and that some important evidence suggesting the opposite is flawed and reaches the wrong conclusion.

  • 14:15 - 14:30 | BEST PAPER AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT; GROUP PHOTO

  • 14:30 - 15:30 | SESSION 4

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics
    (Room P102)

    David Walker-Jones (University of Surrey)
    Naive Frequentists, Thresholds, and Redundant Information

    Yuchi Li (Ghent University)
    Loss-Sensitivity versus Loss-Aversion

    Gergely Hajdu (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
    Internal Belief Constructs and Motivated Information Acquisition

    Employment
    (Room P106)

    Meike Rudolph (Kiel University and IAB)
    Progress or Setback? The Causal Effects of Covid-19 on Individual Labor Outcomes — A Gender Perspective

    Patrick Nüß (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
    Management Opposition in Times of Crisis

    Aukje Nieuwenhuis (University of Groningen)
    The part-time trap: examining restrictions in women's labor supply decision

  • 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon Break – Tea and Coffee

  • 16:00 - 17:00 | SESSION 5

    Behavioral and Experimental Economics
    (Room P102)

    Mert Gumren (University of Leicester)
    Impact of Advice on Behavior Change: Experimental Evidence from Children

    Michael Hilweg-Waldeck (University of Mannheim)
    Why Don’t Donors Deduct? Behavioral Barriers to Tax Incentives in Charitable Giving

    Ondřej Uldrijan (Masaryk University)
    Trust and Third-party Interference

    Migration
    (Room P106)

    Mohamad Saoud (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)
    The 2015/2016 New Year’s Eve Cologne Event and Anti-refugee Crimes in Germany

    Pablo Zarate (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
    Importing Unions: German Migrants and the Rise of the American Labor Movement in 19th Century US

    Selina Gangl (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg)
    Occupational recognition of refugees: Effects on labor market outcomes, remittances, and life satisfaction

  • 18:30 - 22:00 | Conference DINNER (Venue to be confirmed)

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