Monday Sept. 9, 2019

Building EA Executive Academy, 6th floor, EA.6.032

12:00-12:20 Get together, Coffee (WU Sky Lounge)

12:20 – 12:30 Opening address

• (1) 12:30 – 13:30 Title: Serenity Now, Save Later?  Evidence on Savings Puzzles from a 401(k) Field Experiment (with Lynn Conell-Price)
  Presenter: Saurabh Bhargava (Carnegie Mellon)

• (2) 13:30 – 14:30 Title: The effects of a 'None of the above' ballot paper option on voting behavior and election outcomes (with Attila Ambrus and Anita Zednik)
  Presenter: Ben Greiner (WU Vienna)

Coffee break 14:30-15:00

• (3) 15:00 – 16:00 Title: Civic Engagement as a Second-Order Public Good (with Kenju Kamei and Louis Putterman)
        Presenter: Jean-Robert Tyran (U Vienna)

16:45-18:00 Guided Tour State Rooms
                   (Prunkräume Habsburg) (Albertina)

18:30  Dinner at restaurant Glacis Beisl

Tuesday Sept. 10

(Building EA Executive Academy, 6th floor, EA.6.032)

• (4) 09:00 – 10:00 Title: The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Attainment, and Societal Change
  Presenter: Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po Paris)

• (5) 10:00 – 11:00 Title: Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia (with Alessandra L. González and David Yanagizawa-Drott)
  Presenter: Leonardo Bursztyn (U Chicago)

Coffee break 11:00-11:30

• (6) 11:30 – 12:30 Title: The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
  Presenter: Ulf Zölitz (U Zurich)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch at restaurant Glashaus (at WU-Campus)

• (7) 14:30 – 15:30 Title: Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with Dobrescu L.I., Megalokonomou R., and Motta A.)
  Presenter: Marco Faravelli (U Queensland)

Coffee break 15:30-16:00

• (8) 16:00 – 17:00 Title: Rule Violations and Spillovers – Evidence from the Lab and the Field (with Oliver Himmler und Tobias König)
  Presenter: Sebastian Goerg (TU Munich)

Tuesday, Sept 10 - Leonardo Bursztyn

House of Industry, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1030 Wien

We will have an after-workshop event on the evening of Sept. 10 at the premises of House of Industry in the city center of Vienna

Leonardo Bursztyn will talk about “Understanding Peer Pressure in Education: From Evidence to Policy”. 

The event is organized by the Vienna Behavioral Economics Network, see https://vben.at/event/leonardo-bursztyn-understanding-peer-pressure/. The purpose of the network is to spread the word to politicians, business people and the interested public.

• (9)  18:30 - 20:00

Public VBEN Lecture: Understanding Peer Pressure in Education – From Evidence to Policy

Presenter: Leonardo Bursztyn (U Chicago)

Dinner 20:30 at Gmoakeller