CESS seeks to appoint a CESS/FLAME Postdoctoral Research Officer for a fixed period of 2 years. The person appointed will be responsible for coordinating activities related to the Nuffield CESS collaboration with the CESS India initiative at FLAME University in Pune, India.
Impressive forecasting of Texas Congress District mid-terms by PhD candidate Roberto Cerina. All social media and no polling!
Amma Panin, postdoctoral research officer at CESS will be giving a seminar at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam on 30 October 2018.
Researchers can now apply for 3-year post-doctoral research fellowship positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. All research interests relevant to the broad study of human behavior are welcome, but interests that complement those already developed at IAST will be given special consideration. Application deadline: November 30.
The Centre for Experimental Social Science at Nuffield College, Oxford and the Behavioral Science Unit (eMBeD) at the World Bank hosted a workshop on Measuring the Tricky Things. The workshop brought together scholars working on measurement techniques for measuring things that are difficult to measure to share best practice.
On 1 October 2018 CESS Nuffield hosted the Behavioural Retreat at Nuffield College. The purpose of the retreat is to gather a diverse group of academics working within the field of behavioural economics to present their cutting-edge research and get feedback on ideas for future research projects.
Rodrigo Caputo, Research Associate at CESS Santiago, has presented his research at the conference “The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America” hosted by IDB and MFRI at the University of Chicago.
Mats Ahrenshop, affiliated graduate student of CESS, is attending the Sixth Annual Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop where he will do a poster presentation on 21 September 2018.
What will attract the highly-skilled migrants from a post-Brexit UK? This paper examines the migration preferences of potential emigrants from the UK to determine whether the migration calculus is primarily economic or political. This is a CESS working paper. Read abstract and get link to full article here.