Giovanna d’Adda, chaired professor at the University of Milan (U Milan), and Associate editor at the European Economic Review, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “How many nudges are enough? Multiple nudges, resources' conservation and customer engagement”. The speaker explained that “Behavioral nudges are more and more common so people are usually more exposed to several different nudges, but research hasn’t told us much about the cumulative effect o...
Anna Hochleitner (University of Nottingham) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “Fairness in times of crisis: Negative shocks, relative income, and preferences for redistribution.”
Her paper studies how adverse income shocks and relative income differences affect redistribution preferences. Hochleitner claims that “the motivation for this project came from observing that over the last years, we’ve seen a lot of public and political debates surrounding inequality and fairness. So, the question I was asking myself is may...
Juan Pedro Ronconi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Brown University, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “Nation-Building Through Military Service.”
His paper studies the role played by compulsory military service in nation-building, focusing on the development of national values, such as the strength of the national identity on specific civic values such as going to vote and paying taxes, and on developing a more integrated society.
Ronconi claims that “despite the well-documented importan...