Newsletters 2016

08/12 - Seminar by Margaret Roberts, Winter School, IMEBESS 2017, vacancies

SEMINAR

Margaret Roberts (University of California, San Diego)

Date: 9th December 2016.
Time: 12:00 PM.
Venue: Nuffield College – Butler Room.
Title: “How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information” (with William Hobbs).

 
The CESS Nuffield Winter School on Experimental Methods in Business, Policy and Social Sciences will be held on the FLAME University campus in Pune, India. This Winter School features a Design and Research Workshop with paper presentations from selected workshop participants. The course is appropriate for PhD students and junior faculty members at management institutions and social sciences departments, business/behavioral finance executives, marketing/advertising executives who want to know more about A/B testing, policy/impact evaluation experts, and NGO Practitioners. It is also appropriate for participants who want to become informed consumers of experimental research scholarship.

CONFERENCE

 
The Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences of the University of Oxford (CESS) is pleased to announce the Fourth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Social Sciences (IMEBESS) at Universitat de Barcelona. Both theoretical and empirical papers on the topics in all areas of the social sciences, such as experimental and behavioural economics, sociology, political science, psychology are encouraged.

VACANCIES

16/11 - Colloquium by Stefania Innocenti

COLLOQUIA

Stefania Innocenti (UNU-MERIT)

Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Mimetic Behaviour and Institutional persistence: a two-armed bandit experiment”.

14/11 - Colloquia: Nicholas Sabin & Stefania Innocenti

Monday 14th

COLLOQUIA: Nicholas Sabin (USACH)

Time: 2:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Seminar Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Financial Scarcity and Prosocial Behavior”.

Wednesday 16th

COLLOQUIA: Stefania Innocenti (UNU-MERIT)

Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Mimetic Behaviour and Institutional persistence: a two-armed bandit experiment”.

07/11 - Colloquia: Peiran Jiao, James Best, David Rueda, Karl Kahn, Abhishek Parajuli & Seminars: Marko Klasnja, Daniel Sgroi

Monday 7th

COLLOQUIA: Peiran Jiao & James Best

Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Lab Meeting Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Social Learning and Norms of Cooperation”.

Tuesday 8th

COLLOQUIA: David Rueda & Karl Kahn

Time: 2:00 PM
Venue: CESS Lab Meeting Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Redistribution, Insurance and Dualization: An Experimental Approach”.

SEMINAR: Marko Klasnja

Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Nuffield College – Clay Room.
Title: “Parties as Disciplinarians”.

Wednesday 9th

SEMINAR: Daniel Sgroi

Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Nuffield College – Large Lecture Room.
Title: “Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Google Books”.

Thursday 10th

COLLOQUIA: Abhishek Parajuli

Time: 12:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Lab Meeting Room at 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Is Foreign Aid Hurting Development: Experimental Evidence from Nepal”.

01/11 - Seminar by Cesar Zucco Jr.

Seminar

Cesar Zucco Jr. (FGV/EBAPE)

Date: 1st November 2016.
Time: 11:00 AM.
Venue: Nuffield College (Butler Room).
Title: “Exogenous Shocks and Misattribution of Responsibility for Economic Performance: Results From Survey Experiments”.

20/10 - Colloquium by Gerda Hooijer & Seminar by Enrique Fatas

COLLOQUIA

Mon 24th @ 1:00pm
Gerda Hooijer (DPhil Politics)
– Title: “Altruism, multiple out-groups, and redistribution preferences: A laboratory experiment”.

SEMINAR

Wed 26th @ 4:00pm
Enrique Fatas (University of East Anglia)
– Title: “The (Toxic) Value of Power”.

For students, post-docs and faculty member that are interested in conducting experiments on any of the regions that CESS is now established, we would like to invite to Orientation day.

14/10 - Michaelmas 2017

Dear Friends of CESS,

It’s the beginning of Michaelmas Term and time to think about experimental research!

Conduct lab, lab-in-the-field, or online experiments at Nuffield CESS, CESS Santiago or CESS Asia.

We warmly welcome students and the academic community to conduct your experiments at CESS. We’d also like to remind you that we provide full support for conducting lab, lab-in-the-field, and online experiments. We have a vast experience conducting experiments using crowed-source subjects such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Survey Sample International. If you want to know more about of how to conduct experiments at CESS, and about funding assistant, please contact our Postdoctoral Research Officer, John Jensenius, at cess@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

Some departments within the University of Oxford have made available funds to support experimental research. Nuffield College has generously made funding available for their students to run lab experiments at CESS.

There are now three CESS locations that can help you design and field experiments in Europe, South Asia and Latin America: Oxford, Pune, India, and Santiago, Chile.

Nuffield CESS and Nuffield CESS FLAME India MoU Signing Ceremony (Oct 20)

We would to invite the academic community at Oxford to attend the Signing Ceremony between Nuffield College and FLAME University, to create a collaborative Centre for Experimental Social Sciences in Pune, India. The Signing ceremony will take place on Thursday 20 October 2016 at 12:00 PM at the Tower Room at Nuffield College.  For those interested to attend, please contact us to cess@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

CESS Orientation Day (November 14)

For students, post-docs and faculty member that are interested in conducting experiments on any of the regions that CESS is now established, we would like to invite to Orientation day. Our orientation day it’s also a great instance to, please contact our Research Manager, Felipe Torres at felipe.torres@nuffield.ox.ac.uk for more information about this event. The orientation day will take place on Nuffield College at 14:00 hrs.

CESS Santiago Experimental Methods Training Workshop for Policy Makers (November 21 – 2 December 2016)

Our team in CESS Santiago will be running a two-week training course on Experimental Methods for policy makers in November 2016. The curriculum has been designed to provide civil servants with all of the tools necessary to design and implement experiments along with the skills for analysing and interpreting experimental results. If you would to know more about this course, please contact our research manager at felipe.torres@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

Nuffield CESS Seminars & Colloquia

Week 3 – Seminar
ENRIQUE FATAS, Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia.
Title: “The (Toxic) Value of Power”.
Date and time: Wednesday 26 October at 16:00hrs.
Location: Nuffield College, Large Lecture Room.

Week 4 – Seminar
CESAR ZUCCO JR., Professor at FGV/EBAPE.
Title: “Exogenous Shocks and Misattribution of Responsibility for Economic Performance: Results From Survey Experiments”.
Date and time: Wednesday 2 November at 13:00hrs.
Location: Nuffield College, Clay Room.

Week 4 – Seminar
DANIEL SGROI, Associate Professor, University of Warwick.
Title: “Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing using Millions of Google Books”.
Date and time: Wednesday 9 November at 16:00hrs.
Location: Nuffield College, Large Lecture Room.

Week 5 – Colloquium
STEFANIA INNOCENTI, PhD Student, Maastricht University.
Title: “Mimetic Behaviour and Institutional persistence: a two-armed bandit experiment”.
Date and time: Wednesday 16 November at 13:00hrs.
Location: 3 George Mews CESS, fourth floor.