KTI Szeminárium: Francesca Leombroni: Extra-curricular internships and sorting by socio-economic status

2022.12.08.

13.00-15.00 KTI Szeminárium: Francesca Leombroni: Extra-curricular internships and sorting by socio-economic status This paper investigates whether, and due to which channels, university students from different socioeconomic backgrounds differ in their propensity to choose an internship as their access point to the labor market. After presenting evidence that individuals from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to start […]

Munkaerőpiaci Tükör könyvbemutató

2022.12.08.

  MEGHÍVÓ   A KRTK Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézete és az MTA Emberi Erőforrások Gazdaságtana Tudományos Bizottsága tisztelettel meghívja Önt a Munkaerőpiaci Tükör 2021 Közelkép: „Adminisztratív adatok a gyakorlatban” című kötet bemutatójára. Időpont: 2022.december8. (csütörtök) 9.30óra Helyszín: Humán Tudományok Kutatóháza (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4.), K11-12-es szoba A Közgazdaság-és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet által kiadott […]

KTI Szeminárium: Alison Schultz - Guns and Kidneys: How Transplant Tourism Finances Global Conflict

2022.12.01.

13.00-15.00 Abstract This paper investigates the impact of organ trafficking on local conflict using georeferenced data on conflict events and hand-collected data on local transplant infrastructure in eight countries known for illegal transplanting. I exploit exogenous variation in kidney demand measured by the number of U.S. waiting list patients, their payment capacity, and their physical […]

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022

2022.11.24.

8th The Role Of The State In Varieties Of Capitalism (Svoc) 2022 Structural Transformations in a Crises-driven World Economy 24–25 November 2022 Budapest, Hungary / Online Central European University (CEU) Nádor street 15, 1051 Budapest Website: www.svoc-conference.webnode.hu/ Organisers: Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and Democracy Institute, Central European University INTRODUCTION […]

KTI szeminárium: Renke Schmacker - The Effect of Confidence on College Applications

2022.11.17.

13:00 – 15:00 Abstract This paper investigates the role played by self-confidence in college applications. After documenting how much gender and social differences in self-confidence explain inequalities in access to college, we show that correcting underconfidence helps to close the gap in college applications. We collect unique data on student self-confidence using experiments on more […]