Forschungsseminare

Das Bonner Seminar für Angewandte Mikroökonomie wird gemeinsam vom IZA und dem Institut für Angewandte Mikroökonomie der Universität Bonn veranstaltet.

Die Teilnahme am Seminar für Angewandte Mikroökonomie steht Forschern, Studierenden und Besuchern der Universität Bonn, des IZA und kooperierenden Institutionen (z. B. über CRCs oder Exzellenzcluster) offen. Die Seminare und Diskussionen werden auf Englisch abgehalten.

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Upcoming Presentations

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
When:
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12:30 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 01:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Iris Stornik:
“Expected Returns to Parenting Styles: Perceived Impacts on Educational Outcomes, Mental Health, and Self-Worth”

A child’s human capital, comprising various skills and character traits, is significantly shaped during childhood and adolescence. The family environment, particularly parents, plays a crucial role in this development. This study investigates expectations about the effects of different parenting styles on children’s human capital outcomes, focusing on educational achievements, mental health, and self-worth. Additionally, it explores how these expectations relate to parenting behaviour. The study utilises an online survey of the German population with hypothetical parenting style vignettes to elicit expectations. Findings reveal significant variations in individual expectations across parenting style scenarios. On average, participants associate warm parenting styles, such as authoritative and permissive approaches, with the highest human capital outcomes. Heterogeneity in expectations is partially explained by gender, age, and educational background. Furthermore, the study suggests that participants’ parenting style choices are associated with expectations about educational outcomes and participants’ childhood parenting experiences. This study contributes to existing literature on parental investment beyond considerations on educational achievement, as it explores expected effects of parenting on mental health and self-worth. The findings have implications for targeted policy interventions aimed at understanding parenting’s developmental consequences.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Ro’ee Levy, Markus Mobius, Jacob Steinhardt, and Ruiqi Zhong:
“Article-Level Slant and Polarization in News Consumption on Social Media”

There is widespread concern that the social media ecosystem drives users to engage with like-minded news articles, thereby fostering polarization in news consumption. Methodological limitations in estimating slant at the article level have made evaluating these claims difficult. We use data on the near universe (ca. 1 million) of hard news articles published online by the top 100 U.S. news outlets in 2019, together with recent advances in natural language processing, to obtain a content-based measure of slant at the article level. Our main finding is that the degree of polarization in news consumption on social media is arguably high. Specifically, the mean slant difference between articles consumed by conservative and liberal users on Facebook is 1.5 times the ideological distance between the average New York Times and Foxnews.com article. We also show that: i) The majority (65%) of the variance in slant across articles arises within outlets, rather than across outlets, highlighting the importance of measuring slant at the article rather than the outlet level. ii) Most news produced is centrist, but the tails of the slant distribution are thick, and there is substantial variation in slant across news type and topic. iii) Extreme content is much more likely to be shared widely on Facebook than moderate content. iv) There is substantial pro-attitudinal news consumption on Facebook even within the same outlet. v) Polarization in news exposure can account for the majority of polarization in news consumption on Facebook.

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Friday, January 31, 2025
When:
Friday, January 31, 2025, 11:00 AM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Description:
Marco Forti and Daniele Mauriello:
“Mental Models of Stock Market Dynamics: The Impact of Attention Allocation”

Drawing on recent attention-based theories of cognition, we investigate whether investors’ attention to different features of the investment decision plays a role in determining their mental model of stock market dynamics. We propose a laboratory experiment where we infer participants’ mental models by eliciting expectations about future stock returns based on historical price patterns. By manipulating the salience of these patterns, we assess how directing attention to different features of the decision problem shapes the mental models investors employ. This project contributes to the behavioral finance literature by offering novel insights into the role of attention in shaping investment decisions.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
When:
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
When:
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
When:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
When:
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
When:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
When:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
When:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
When:
Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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