BID Workshop

The Behavior, Institutions and Development workshop focuses on economic development and the evolution of institutions underpinning market exchange; the origins, history, and evolving role of a broader set of institutions, such as political systems, cultures, ideologies and religions, and the family, with a focus on their implications for economic resource allocation; beliefs, perception, identity, and emotions; pro-social preferences and moral attitudes, and their evolutionary foundations.

Coordinators Victor Gay and Augustin Tapsoba

Time and location Every other Monday, 12:30-13:30 in Auditorium A5 of the TSE building.

Mailing List Subscription requests should be sent to ieb.tse@gmail.com

Registration Potential presenters should send an email to ieb.tse@gmail.com mentioning the date and title of the presentation.

Format Depending on students' demands, two types of sessions are possible :

• Preliminary projects (30-minute presentations, two students may present)

• Advanced projects (1-hour presentations).

Attendance Students members of the BID group are expected to commit to attend the workshop and present at least once a year.

Educational objectives

• Prepare graduate students for the job market.

• Present research to a general audience -- the job market audience.

• Get regular feedback.

• Identify the bigger economic problem to solve and the research question, improve the motivation of a talk.

• Discuss the process of doing research that happens in the background. Faculty are encouraged to share their thinking process.