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Behavioural, Experimental, and Development Economics Research Seminar Series

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Join leading scholars as they present the latest in Behavioural, Experimental, and Development economics

The Behavioural, Experimental, and Development Economics Research Seminar Series showcase the latest research in experimental economics

Our seminar series will be delivered by scholars who bring together a wide array of expertise on the behaviour of individuals, groups, and firms using economics experiments.

This series will be presented on campus and will normally be held on Thursday mornings at 11am, from October through to December, please check individual events for finalised dates and times. This is an open seminar series and all levels of study an members of the public are welcome.

Upcoming Seminars

Upcoming seminars will be added below when available.

Date	Seminar title and Speaker

Seminar organisers

Dr Dennie Van Dolder

Organiser

Department of Economics, University of Esex

Professor Friederike Mengel

Organiser

Department of Economics, University of Essex

Previous Seminars in the Behavioural, Experimental, and Development Economics Research Series

Summer 2025

Seminar title and Speaker

Weathering Poverty by Clare Balboni

Spring 2025

Seminar title and Speaker

Worker Absences and Demand for Flexible Contracts by Suanna Oh

Deception Aversion by Evan Friedman

Navigating Multiple Frictions: Experimental evidence for impacting voucher take-up at scale by Abhijeet Singh

Autumn 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Building social cohesion – A teacher-led preschool program to mitigate ingroup bias in early childhood education by Maike Schlosser

Network-restricted Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment by Yi Shi

Gender gaps in financial literacy: a multi-arm RCT to break the response bias in surveys by Nagore Iriberri

The Effect of Experimenter Demand on Inference by Alistair Wilson

Trade, Voting, and ESG Policies: Theory and Evidence by Daniel Friedman

Information Provision with Milestones in Teamwork: External Governance versus Self Governance by Boon Han Koh

The Effect of Incentives on Beliefs and Choices in Games: An Experiment by Teresa Esteban Casanelles

Naive Frequentists and Redundant Information by David Walker-Jones

Spring 2024

Seminar title and Speaker

Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiment by Arthur Dolgopolov

On the relative deservingness of capital and labor by Vanessa Valero

Narrative Persuasion by Kai Barron

Autumn 2023

Seminar title and Speaker

Cash Transfers and Role Models: Impacts on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya by Mahreen Mahmud

Facing the Grim Truth: Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Against Robot Opponents by Tatiana Kornienko

Consumers' Perceptions about Firms’ Signals by Andreas Ziegler and Flow Markets by Daniel Friedman

Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony by Abu Siddique

Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers by Marc Kaufmann

The Behavioural Economics of Music by Nikhil Masters and Simple Arbitration by Mikhail Freer

Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection by Lucia Del Carpio

Stochastic dominance and demand for surprise by Séverine Toussaert

Dr Dennie Van Dolder Department of Economics

University of Essex

Email: d.vandolder@essex.ac.uk

Prof Friederike Mengel Department of Economics

University of Essex

Email: fmengel@essex.ac.uk

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