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Tuesday, 8 June 2021
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WZB Talk by Milan Svolik
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Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Start: 2:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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WZB Talk by Hans-Joachim Voth
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Can extremism become contagious? Many papers have shown that social control of public actions can lead to sudden transitions from ‘extreme to mainstream’. What is not clear is whether social spillovers can also have first-order effects on private actions, like voting, where persuasion is key. We first build a measure of social interaction frequency using granular data from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in Hamburg and information on household characteristics.

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Start: 2:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
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WZB Talk by Jan Paul Heisig - Online Event
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Current societal challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic or climate change highlight the tension between individual freedom and collective good provision. Striking the right balance is particularly delicate for democratic governments whose authority hinges on citizen acceptance and legitimation. When and why do citizens accept far-reaching limitations of their individual rights for a greater societal good?

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Start: 2:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu

Die Sperrung von Trumps Twitter-Account hat viele Reaktionen hervorgerufen. In seinem Beitrag beschreibt Gastwissenschaftler Torben Klausa, wie Online-Plattformen in Deutschland und Europa reguliert werden sollen.

Booking an appointment for a Covid vaccination is tedious und like getting a ticket for the Olympic Games or  a Lady Gaga concert, Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler on restoring fairness and avoiding black markets. 

"Schule und Schulpolitik während der Corona-Pandemie: Nichts gelernt?" - diesem Thema widmet sich das neue Beiheft der Zeitschrift „Die Deutsche Schule“. Es ist der dritte Teil einer Reihe zu den Auswirkungen von Corona auf die Schule.

On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. The project was accompanied by a team of researchers to explore the effects of this very unusual ban. Among them was Kai Barron, researcher of the unit Economics of Change. The team found out, that the policy reduced the number of unnatural deaths by 21 per day, or approximately 740 over the five-week period.

Does raising a child amidst the pandemic drive gender inequality? Surveys for 2020 suggest that parenting has unequally affected women and men in Germany, especially during the months of lockdown.