Calendrier du 12 janvier 2024
Job Market Seminar
Du 12/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
BREY Bjorn (University of Oxford)
The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany
Friday, January 12th, R2-01, 12.30pm-1.45pm
Development; Growth; Economic History; International Trade; Political Economy
"The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany"
Bjorn BREY (University of Oxford)
Behavior Working Group
Du 12/01/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
MSE Salle 114
WREN-LEWIS Liam (PSE)
The limits to universalism
Surveys, ballot measures, donations, and consumer spending alike reveal a growing concern for the welfare of animals. What is driving this phenomenon? Does it follow a general shift toward more universalist attitudes, or are social preferences for humans and animals substitutes? I propose a representative survey experiment to measure the distribution, interdependence, and determinants of universalist attitudes toward various human or animal out-groups. Attitudes would be elicited in two ways: (1) via previously validated hypothetical money allocation tasks between an in-group member and an out-group representative; (2) by allowing respondents to make donations to NGOs that focus on a specific out-group. Subjects would be randomly exposed to a narrative about a direct, positive interaction between an in-group member and an out-group member. This would allow to study the role of perceived distance to the out-group in shaping other-regarding preferences