Die Ökonomin Esther Duflo ist die Preisträgerin des A.SK Social Science Award 2015, eines der bestdotierten internationalen Preise in den Sozialwissenschaften.
Digital work performed online by the crowd creates a new, globally dispersed and internet-based form of work. Despite the high social and economic relevance of crowdwork, little empirical evidence exists on its spread and functioning. From the perspective of the workers, the question arises, which factors make crowdwork attractive despite its inherent insecurity. From the perspective of the companies, controlling the quality of work and data security as well as exchange of experience and knowledge are difficult to organize.
Recent political developments in Poland have triggered many questions concerning the reasons and consequences for Poland and Europe. There is a debate as to what the development means for democracy. In his lecture, Radoslaw Markowski will provide some answers and explanations.
This interdisciplinary two-day conference explores the role of contexts in the production and reproduction of social inequality.
Contexts matter for individual and aggregate outcomes because they channel opportunities and define choices. Contexts connect individuals or segregate them from each other. Contexts include neighborhoods, networks, families, schools, workplaces, and nations.
This conference brings together economists and sociologists, for an interdisciplinary exchange of theory, evidence, and methodology.
The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis has been the method chosen to study the relationship between time-varying covariates and outcomes that can meaningfully be specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions.
Social scientists have generated a large and inconclusive literature on the effect(s) of marriage on men’s wages. Researchers have hypothesized that the wage premium enjoyed by married men may reflect both a tendency for more productive men to marry and an effect of marriage on productivity. To sort out these explanations, researchers have used fixed effects regression models for panel data. This article shows that these models are generally inappropriate for answering the causal questions of interest.