Newsletters 2017

20/11 - Colloquium by Joan Barceló

COLLOQUIUM

 

Joan Barceló

Washington University in St. Louis

 

Date: 21st November 2017.

Time: 12:30 PM (sandwiches served)
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA).
Title: “Friends or Foes? The Role of Individual Information on Cooperation in Post-Conflict Societies”
Abstract: This project seeks to answer one of the central puzzles surrounding conflict: What are the consequences of conflict on people’s willingness to cooperate with others? Countries and organizations invest millions of dollars every year in development, the promotion of social institutions, and peace in communities affected by conflict. However, current theories and supporting… READ MORE.

13/11 - Colloquium by Cesar Zucco Jr

COLLOQUIUM

 

Cesar Zucco Jr.

Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE

 

Date: 14th November 2017.

Time: 12:30 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA).
Title: “Merit, Luck and Accountability – How asymmetric information about exogenous shocks affects agent’s efforts”
Abstract: There is evidence that citizens in developing democracies vote based on retrospective evaluations of the economy, even in countries where economic performance is largely determined by exogenous shocks. Yet there are reasons to believe that, differently from voters, incumbents are aware of these shocks. These asymmetry leads us to expect that in periods of large positive or… READ MORE.

06/11 - Colloquium by Verena Fetscher & seminar by Michael Muthukrishna

COLLOQUIUM

 

Verena Fetscher

University of Mannheim

 

Date: 7th November 2017.

Time: 12:30 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA).
Title: “Explaining Preferences for Redistribution: Social Identity and the Relative Cost of Redistribution”
Abstract: Given that some individuals are concerned about the well-being of others, this paper seeks to give an answer to the question of why these individuals prefer to favor their own social group at the expense of discriminating against members of other social groups in redistributive situations. I develop an argument that builds on the relative cost of redistribution as defined over the variability of… READ MORE.

SEMINAR

 

Michael Muthukrishna

London School of Economics and Political Science

 

Date: 8th November 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Corruption, Competition and Scales of Cooperation: Corruption is Rooted in Our Relationships”
Abstract: Cultural evolution and the science of cooperation suggest that corruption can be conceptualized as competing scales of cooperation. For example, when a leader gives his daughter a government contract, it’s nepotism. But it’s also cooperation at the level of the family, well explained by inclusive fitness, undermining cooperation at the level of the state. When a manager… READ MORE.

23/10 - Colloquium by Baobao Zhang

Colloquium

 

Baobao Zhang

Yale University

 

Date: 24th October 2017
Time: 12:30 pm – 13:30 pm
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA)
Title: “Causal Inference in Policy Feedback: Two Case Studies in American Politics”
Abstract: Scholars of politics have long studied policy feedback, or how one’s experience with public policy influences one’s political attitudes and behavior. Conventional wisdom posits that benefiting from social programs induces voters to mobilize politically to defend these programs. Nevertheless, valid causal inference in the study of policy feedback is difficult because most… READ MORE.

(Sandwiches will be served)

16/10 - 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 in Europe, Latin America and India.

We warmly welcome students and the academic community to conduct their experiments at CESS. We’d also like to remind you that we provide full support to those conducting lab, lab-in-the-field, online, and field experiments. We have a vast amount of experience conducting experiments using crowd-sourced subjects. If you want to know more about of how to conduct experiments with CESS, and about funding assistance, please contact our Research Administrator Ana Gornatkevic on cess@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

Some departments within the University of Oxford have made funds available to support experimental research. Nuffield College has also 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: Europe, South East Asia and Latin America.

 

Call for papers (deadline will be announced shortly)

We are pleased to announce that the Fifth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Social Sciences (IMEBESS) will take place at the European University Institute, Florence, on 3 – 5 May 2018. Both theoretical and empirical papers on topics in all areas of the social sciences, such as experimental and behavioural economics, anthropology, sociology, political science and psychology, are encouraged. The deadline for the call will be published shortly.

CESS Nuffield Seminar & Colloquia

Would you like to present your experimental research and receive feedback? Our colloquium series is designed as a forum for researchers to present their initial experimental research ideas and designs to a group of experienced experimentalists. This provides a unique and valuable setting for researchers to receive very constructive feedback on their experimental projects. If you want to present in a CESS colloquium, please contact our Postdoctoral Research Officer Sönke Ehret on sonke.ehret@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

 
» Colloquium
KENAN KALAYCI, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Queensland.
Title: “Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment” (with Marco Faravelli and Carlos Pimienta).
Date and time: Monday 16 October, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

 
» Colloquium
BAOBAO ZHANG, Doctoral student, Yale University.
Title: “Causal Inference in Policy Feedback: Two Case Studies in American Politics”.
Date and time: Tuesday 24 October, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

 
» Colloquium
VERENA FETSCHER, Doctoral student, University of Mannheim.
Title: “Explaining Preferences for Redistribution: Social Identity and the Relative Cost of Redistribution”.
Date and time: Tuesday 07 November, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

 
» Seminar
MICHAEL MUTHUKRISHNA, Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Title: “Corruption, Competition and Scales of Cooperation: Corruption is Rooted in Our Relationships”.
Date and time: Wednesday 08 November, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF.

 
» Colloquium
CESAR ZUCCO JR., Associate Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE.
Title: “Merit, Luck and Accountability – How asymmetric information about exogenous shocks affects agent’s efforts”.
Date and time: Tuesday 14 November, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

 
» Colloquium
JOAN BARCELÓ, Doctoral student, Washington University in St. Louis.
Title: “Friends or Foes? The Role of Individual Information on Cooperation in Post-Conflict Societies”.
Date and time: Tuesday 21 November, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

12/10 - Colloquium by Kenan Kalayci

Colloquium

 

Kenan Kalayci

University of Queensland

 

Date: 16th October 2017
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA)
Title: “Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment”
Abstract: We test the turnout predictions of the standard two-party, private value, costly voting model through a large, real effort experiment. We do this by recruiting 1,200 participants through Amazon Mechanical Turk and employing a 2 x 2 between subjects design encompassing small (N = 30) and large (N = 300) elections, as well as symmetric and asymmetric ones. We find… READ MORE.

(Sandwiches will be served)

03/07 - Seminars by Charles Efferson & Christ Dawes

CESS Seminar Speakers

 

Charles Efferson

Department of Economics, University of Zurich

 

Date: 04th July 2017
Time: 4:10 PM
Venue: Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
Title: “The Seduction of Applied Conformity”

Christopher Dawes

Department of Politics, New York University

 

Date: 05th July 2017
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
Title: “Is ‘Constitutional Veneration’ an Obstacle to Constitutional Amendment?”

19/06 - Seminar by Catherine Hafer

SEMINAR

 

Catherine Hafer

Department of Politics, New York University

 

Date: 19th June 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Who Gets the Credit? News-Gathering Competition and Political Accountability”
Abstract: We study the effects of media competition on political accountability in a setting with imperfect ability of the media to secure credit for breaking the news. Media outlets with pro-incumbent and pro-challenger biases can invest into costly efforts to acquire the news but each media can also copy the news stories of competitors. Citizens consume news as a private consumption… READ MORE.

14/06 - Seminar by Elke Weber

SEMINAR

 

Elke U. Weber

Princeton University

 

Date: 14th June 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Giving the Future A Chance”
Abstract: Bounded rationality and finite processing capacity make it understandable that homo sapiens focuses attention first on the here and now. But many individual and social problems require increased attention to future costs and benefits, with climate change as the most urgent challenge for decisions that fully and justly weigh the immediate and certain costs and benefits of… READ MORE.

12/06 - Colloquium by Jasmine Bhatia

COLLOQUIUM

 

Jasmine Bhatia

Date: 12th June 2017.

Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: CESS Meeting Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA).
Title: “Strongmen or Technocrats? A Conjoint Experiment Testing Leadership Preferences in Afghanistan”
Abstract: New democracies beset by political violence often opt for political settlements that draw informal power brokers and former combatants into formal leadership positions. However, there is little empirical evidence about how these political settlements are viewed by the public, and to what extent they may impact the political legitimacy of the state. Drawing from an original dataset… READ MORE.

30/05 - Seminar by Bart Wilson

SEMINAR

 

Bart Wilson

Chapman University

 

Date: 31st May 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “The Meaning of Property in Things”
Abstract: What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? In this paper I explore how Homo sapiens acquires and cognizes the custom of property and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the 21st century. I first support the claim that property is a universal and uniquely human custom and then I argue that humans locate the meaning… READ MORE.

26/05 - Seminar by David Gill

SEMINAR

 

David Gill

Purdue University

 

Date: 26th May 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments”
Abstract: Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four thousand college students… READ MORE.

25/05 - Colloquium by Sabine Neuhofer

COLLOQUIUM

 

Sabine Neuhofer

University of Vienna

 

Date: 25th May 2017.
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, OX1 2AA (second floor).
Title: “Need-based Justice in Social Exchange Networks”
Abstract: We examine experimentally whether heterogeneous needs affect the distribution of outcomes in small and negatively connected exchange networks. We operationalize an individual need as a threshold of points an actor has to obtain in a negotiation in order to earn additional income in a subsequent real effort task. In contrast to previous exchange network experiments, an offer is… READ MORE.

24/05 - Seminar by Kirill Pogorelskiy

SEMINAR

 

Kirill Pogorelskiy

University of Warwick

 

Date: 24th May 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “News Sharing and Voting on Social Networks: An Experimental Study” (joint with Matthew Shum)
Abstract: We study the relationship between social media and information aggregation by voting. Our experimental treatments mimic the features of social networks in the presence of media bias in order to address concerns that voters obtaining their political news via social media may become more polarized in their voting behavior. Our results suggest substantial effects of… READ MORE.

17/05 - Trinity Term: events of weeks 4 and 5

SEMINAR

 

Kirill Pogorelskiy

University of Warwick

 

Date: 24th May 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “News Sharing and Voting on Social Networks: An Experimental Study” (joint with Matthew Shum)
Abstract: We study the relationship between social media and information aggregation by voting. Our experimental treatments mimic the features of social networks in the presence of media bias in order to address concerns that voters obtaining their political news via social media may become more polarized in their voting behavior. Our results suggest substantial effects of… READ MORE.

COLLOQUIUM

 

Sabine Neuhofer

University of Vienna

 

Date: 25th May 2017.
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, OX1 2AA (second floor).
Title: “Need-based Justice in Social Exchange Networks”
Abstract: We examine experimentally whether heterogeneous needs affect the distribution of outcomes in small and negatively connected exchange networks. We operationalize an individual need as a threshold of points an actor has to obtain in a negotiation in order to earn additional income in a subsequent real effort task. In contrast to previous exchange network experiments, an offer is… READ MORE.

SEMINAR

 

David Gill

Purdue University

 

Date: 26th May 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments”
Abstract: Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four thousand college students… READ MORE.

External Events

SEMINAR

 

Professor Drew Fudenberg

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Date: 18th May 2017
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building
Title: “Cooperation in Noisy Repeated Games”

Date: 19th May 2017.
Time: 2:15 PM
Venue: Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building
Title: “Type-Compatible Equilibria in Signalling Games”

12/05 - Seminar by Marco Pagnozzi

SEMINAR

 

Marco Pagnozzi

University of Naples Federico II

 

Date: 15th May 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Efficiency in Auctions with (Failed) Resale” (joint with Krista J. Saral)
Abstract: We analyze how the possibility of resale affects efficiency in multi-object uniform-price auctions with asymmetric bidders using a combination of theory and experiments. The resale market is modeled as an unstructured bargaining game between auction bidders. Our experimental design consists of four treatments that vary the (exogenous) probability that bidders participate in a resale market after the auction. In all treatments, the possibility of resale increases… READ MORE.

08/05 - Seminar by Erik Ø. Sørensen

SEMINAR

 

Erik Ø. Sørensen

NHH Norwegian School of Economics

 

Date: 10th May 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Title: “Choice and personal responsibility: What is a morally relevant choice?”
Abstract: The principle that people should be held personally responsible for the consequences of their choices is a fundamental moral ideal in Western societies. We study experimentally how far-reaching this principle is when people consider income inequalities: are individuals held personally responsible for nominal and forced choices, which arguably do not meet minimal conditions for a morally relevant choice (causal responsibility and the presence of an… READ MORE.

02/05 - Trinity 2017

Dear Friends of CESS,

It’s the beginning of Trinity Term and here at Nuffield CESS we have a variety of interesting academic events lined up for the coming weeks. We hope to see you at the Centre soon!

  Nuffield CESS Seminars & Colloquia

Week 2 – Colloquium

 

VITTORIO MEROLA

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse School of Economics

Title: Economic Inequality, Authoritarianism, and Hostility toward Immigrants.
Date and time: Wednesday 3 May, 11:00
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.

Week 3 – Seminar

 

ERIK Ø. SØRENSEN

Professor of Economics, NNH Norwegian School of Economics

Title: Choice and personal responsibility: What is a morally relevant choice? (with Alexander W. Cappelen, Sebastian Fest, Bertil Tungodden).
Date and time: Wednesday 10 May, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Week 4 – Seminar

 

MARCO PAGNOZZI

Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II

Title: Efficiency in Auctions with (Failed) Resale (with Krista J. Saral).
Date and time: Monday 15 May, 13:00.
Location: Clay Room, Nuffield College.

Week 5 – Seminar

 

KIRILL POGORELSKIY

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Title: News Sharing and Voting on Social Networks: An Experimental Study (with Matthew Shum).
Date and time: Wednesday 24 May, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Week 6 – Seminar

 

BART WILSON

Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law, Economics Science Institute, Chapman University

Title: The Meaning of Property in Things.
Date and time: Wednesday 31 May, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Week 8 – Colloquium

JASMINE BATHIA

Title: Strongmen or Technocrats? A Conjoint Experiment Testing Leadership Preferences in Afghanistan.
Date and time: Monday 12 June, 12:00.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.

Week 8 – Seminar

 

ELKE U. WEBER

Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Title: Giving the Future A Chance.
Date and time: Wednesday 14 June, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

CESS Colloquia

Would you like to present your experimental research and receive feedback? Our colloquium series is designed as a forum for researchers to present their initial experimental research ideas and designs to a group of experienced experimentalists. This provides a unique and valuable setting for researches to receive very constructive feedback on their experimental projects. If you want to present in a CESS colloquium, please contact our Research Manager, Felipe Torres on felipe.torres@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

CESS SUMMER SCHOOLS

CESS/Essex Summer School on Experimental Methods (26 June – 7 July)

We will be running our annual CESS/Essex Summer School in Oxford. This two-week course covers the design, implementation, and analytic tools required to conduct social science experiments. Upon completion of the course participants should be able to (1) formulate research questions that can be addressed using experiments, (2) design and carry out experiments, and (3) analyse and interpret results from social science experiments.

CESS Santiago School on Experimental Methods (17-28 July)

This two week course will follow the same program as the CESS/Essex Summer School in Experimental Methods taking place in Oxford a few weeks earlier. The program will take place at CESS Santiago (Concha y Toro 32C) in Chile.

COURSES

Experimental Research in Political Science

During Trinity Term, Professor Raymond Duch, Director of CESS, will be teaching the course on Experimental Research in Political Science. His course aims to provide first and second year doctoral students with an introduction to the discipline and will cover political behaviour, political psychology and public policy. Students will also acquire hands on experience designing and running an experiment.

Limited places are available for DPhil students across the Social Sciences Division. More information can be found on the course website.

LATEST VACANCIES

EXTERNAL EVENTS

EPSA Annual Conference (22-24 June)

Registration is open for the European Political Science Association’s (EPSA) annual conference. This year the event will take place at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan on 22 to 24 June. Around 800 participants are expected to attend this conference that brings together academics and students undertaking cutting edge political science research around the world.

For more information and to register, please visit the EPSA website.

 

Conduct lab, lab-in-the-field, or online experiments in Europe, Latin America and India

We warmly welcome students and the academic community to conduct their experiments at CESS. We’d also like to remind you that we provide full support to those conducting lab, lab-in-the-field, online, and field experiments. We have a vast amount of experience conducting experiments using crowed-source subjects. If you want to know more about of how to conduct experiments with CESS, and about funding assistance, please contact our Postdoctoral Research Officer John Jensenius on cess@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

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

There are three CESS locations that can help you design and field experiments: Europe, South East Asia and Latin America.

07/04 - Colloquium by Maximilian Voigt, Appointment of Sonja Vogt, NICEP 2017

COLLOQUIUM

 

Maximilian Voigh

 

Date: 10th April 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: CESS Seminar Room @ 3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA.
Title: “Do Banks Distort Choices?”.
Abstract: Financial Institutions are obliged to assess the appropriateness of investment products for their customers and to offer their customers only suitable products. Thereby, the suitability assessment includes the customers’ preferences regarding risk taking, which are often elicited in a naïve way. Whereas past research analysed how the risk assessment can be improved, … READ MORE.

Appointment of Sonja Vogt

 

The Centre of Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at Nuffield College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Sonja Vogt has accepted the position of Senior Research Officer. Sonja will join CESS from the University of Zurich, where she is a Senior Research Associate in the Economics Department. Prior to this position, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bern in Switzerland and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology. We look forward to welcoming her to the CESS Nuffield team this summer.

Call for papers for NICEP 2017 conference

The conference will be held at the University of Nottingham, on June 19-20, 2017. NICEP promotes interdisciplinary research at the cross roads between Economics and Politics in four main areas: representation, political behaviour, political economy and public policy, and quality of government. Theoretical, empirical and experimental papers related to these areas are particularly welcome.

13/03 - Colloquium by Lucas Novaes

COLLOQUIUM

LUCAS M. NOVAES
(Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse)

 
Date: 15th March 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Seminar Room (3 George Street Mews, Oxford, OX1 2AA).
Title: “Disloyal Brokers and Weak Parties”.
Abstract: This article provides a novel perspective on party organization by showing how the disloyalty of political brokers causes party fragility. Brokers are often essential connecting parties to voters. In broker–mediated party systems, however, brokers may be unreliable agents, regularly changing political allegiances in search of better returns for their brokerage. This free agency from brokers hinders durable… READ MORE.

03/03 - Seminar by Ron Harstad

SEMINAR

RON HARSTAD (University of Missouri)

 
Date: 08th March 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM.
Venue: Butler Room – Nuffield College.
Title: “Efficiency Measurement via Revealed Thresholds, Without Knowing Valuations”.
Abstract: Laboratory experiments employing an induced-values methodology often report on allocative efficiencies observed. That methodology requires experimenters know subjects’ motivations precisely, questionable in labs, impossible in field experiments. Allocative efficiency implies a hypothetical costless aftermarket would be inactive. An allocation mechanism’s outcome is defined to be… READ MORE.

28/02 - Colloquium by Carlos Velasco

COLLOQUIUM

CARLOS VELASCO
(Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse)

 
Date: 01st March 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Meeting Room – 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “The Impact of Partisan Politics on Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India”.
Abstract: Existing studies show party alignment impacts positively the distribution of government resources, implicitly assuming this improves policy outcomes. The opposite could be true, however, if alignment reduces the incentives for good bureaucratic performance. To illustrate this alternative, I introduce a theory where… READ MORE.

27/02 - Colloquium by Brent Davis & Antiqua Conference

COLLOQUIUM

BRENT DAVIS (University of Innsbruck)

 
Date: 27th February 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Meeting Room – 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Tournament Entry Under Uncertainty”.
Abstract: Many labor markets have tournament mechanisms in pay and promotion schemes. A decade’s worth of research has shown that women shy away from competition compared to men in many domains. However, labor markets often have more uncertainty imbedded in competition than simply the risk of … READ MORE.

 
Professor Duch will be a keynote speaker at the Antigua Experimental Economics Conference, which will be held at Casa Popenoe in Antigua, Guatemala. The conference is open to any researcher using experimental methods in economics or related social sciences (interdisciplinary papers are welcome). The event especially encourage experimentalists from (or doing research in) Latin America to attend, as one of the principal aims of this conference is to strengthen ties both within the Latin American experimental community, and between this community and other parts of the world.

17/02 - Colloquium by Juanjuan Meng, Brent Davis & Antiqua Conference

SEMINAR

JUANJUAN MENG
(Guanghua School of Management, Peking University)

 
Date: 22nd February 2017.
Time: 4:00 PM.
Venue: Nuffield College – Butler Room.
Title: “Does Gift Competition Hurt? – Experimental study on multilateral gift exchange”.
Abstract: Gift exchange often benefits the gift giver in bilateral setting. However, how does gift competition affect the receiver behavior and givers payoff remain largely unknown. This experimental study shows that gift competition hurts gift givers and benefits gift receiver because givers significantly increase the size of their gifts. They do so rationally because the payoff function generated by … READ MORE.

COLLOQUIUM

BRENT DAVIS (University of Innsbruck)

 
Date: 27th February 2017.
Time: 1:00 PM.
Venue: CESS Meeting Room – 3 George Street Mews, Oxford.
Title: “Tournament Entry Under Uncertainty”.
Abstract: Many labor markets have tournament mechanisms in pay and promotion schemes. A decade’s worth of research has shown that women shy away from competition compared to men in many domains. However, labor markets often have more uncertainty imbedded in competition than simply the risk of … READ MORE.

 
Professor Duch will be a keynote speaker at the Antigua Experimental Economics Conference, which will be held at Casa Popenoe in Antigua, Guatemala. The conference is open to any researcher using experimental methods in economics or related social sciences (interdisciplinary papers are welcome). The event especially encourage experimentalists from (or doing research in) Latin America to attend, as one of the principal aims of this conference is to strengthen ties both within the Latin American experimental community, and between this community and other parts of the world.

23/01 - Colloquium by Sergey Gavrilets & other events

We are pleased to invite you to the following CESS colloquium:

Collective action and the internalization of social norms

 

SERGEY GAVRILETS, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee

Wednesday 25 January 13:00

CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford

Upcoming Events

CESS Orientation Day

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.

Seminar – Marco Pagnozzi

Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II.

Title: Efficiency in Auctions with (Failed) Resale (with Krista J. Saral)

Abstract: We analyze how the possibility of resale affects efficiency in multi-object uniform-price auctions with asymmetric bidders using a combination of theory and experiments. Our experimental design consists of four treatments that vary the (exogenous) probability that bidders… read more.

17/01 - Hilary 2017

Dear Friends of CESS,

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

 

Conduct lab, lab-in-the-field, or online experiments in Europe, Latin America and India

We warmly welcome students and the academic community to conduct their experiments at CESS. We’d also like to remind you that we provide full support to those conducting lab, lab-in-the-field, online, and field experiments. We have a vast amount of experience conducting experiments using crowed-source subjects. There are now three CESS locations that can help you design and field experiments: Europe, South East Asia and Latin America. If you want to know more about of how to conduct experiments with CESS, and about funding assistance, please contact our Postdoctoral Research Officer John Jensenius on cess@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

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

EVENTS IN HILARY

CESS Orientation Day (6 February 2017)

We would like to invite students, post-docs and faculty member that are interested in conducting experiments in any of the regions that CESS is now established to an orientation day. This event is a great opportunity to learn more about how CESS can assist you in the design and implementation of your experimental research. Please contact our Research Manager, Felipe Torres on felipe.torres@nuffield.ox.ac.uk for more information about this event. The orientation day will take place at Nuffield College at 14:00 in the Clay Room.

CESS/Essex Summer School on Experimental Methods (26 June – 7 July)

We will be running our annual CESS/Essex Summer School in Oxford. This two-week course covers the design, implementation, and analytic tools required to conduct social science experiments. Upon completion of the course participants should be able to (1) formulate research questions that can be addressed using experiments, (2) design and carry out experiments, and (3) analyse and interpret results from social science experiments.

Call for papers – IMEBESS 2017
(Submission deadline: 31 January 2017)

We are pleased to announce that the Fourth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Social Sciences (IMEBESS) will take place at the Universitat de Barcelona on 27-29 April 2017. Both theoretical and empirical papers on topics in all areas of the social sciences, such as experimental and behavioural economics, sociology, political science and psychology, are encouraged. The deadline for submitting papers is 31 January 2017. Authors will receive notification of acceptance on 29 February 2017.

CESS Colloquia

Would you like to present your experimental research and receive feedback? Our colloquium series is designed as a forum for researchers to present their initial experimental research ideas and designs to a group of experienced experimentalists. This provides a unique and valuable setting for researches to receive very constructive feedback on their experimental projects. If you want to present in a CESS colloquium, please contact our Research Manager, Felipe Torres on felipe.torres@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

  Nuffield CESS Seminars & Colloquia

Week 3 – Colloquium

 

SERGEY GAVRILETS

Distinguished Professor, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee.

Title: Collective action and the internalization of social norms.
Date and time: Wednesday 25 January, 13:00
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

Week 5 – Seminar

 

MARCO PAGNOZZI

Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II.

Title: Efficiency in Auctions with (Failed) Resale (with Krista J. Saral).
Date and time: Wednesday 8 February, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Week 7 – Colloquium

 

JUANJUAN MENG

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

Title: Does Gift Competition Hurt? – Experimental study on multilateral gift exchange.
Date and time: Wednesday 22 February, 16:00.
Location: Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Week 8 – Colloquium

 

CARLOS VELASCO

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse.

Title: The Impact of Partisan Politics on Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India.
Date and time: Wednesday 1 March, 13:00.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

Between terms – Colloquium

 

LUCAS M. NOVAES

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse.

Date and time: Wednesday 15 March, 13:00.
Location: CESS Seminar Room, 3 George Street Mews, Oxford OX1 2AA.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

Professor Raymond Duch will be presenting on 25 January 2017 his paper called Is Cheating a National Pastime? Evidence from tax compliance experiments in Russia, Chile, and Britain. The talk will be held by CESS Nuffield – FLAME University in Pune, India. Professor Duch will be also presenting this paper on 19 January 2017 at Higher School of Economics in Moscow, venue Shabolovka 26.