Our Seminars & Workshops
Seminars
Workshops
Thu 14 Nov, '24- |
EBER (DR@W) Seminar - Francesco Capozza (WZB)S2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S. (with Krishna Srinivasan) Abstract: Evaluating the desirability of a reform typically involves weighing the gains of the winners against the losses of the losers using welfare weights. Welfare weights measure the value that citizens assigns to a $1 gain in consumption to individuals. They can capture various normative ideals like utilitarianism and equality of opportunity. What are the welfare weights that citizens assign to individuals in society? We develop a portable method to elicit welfare weights from general population samples and validate it using two experiments. We find that the general population weights are more progressive than the weights implied by tax and transfer policies in the U.S., indicating that the general population desires additional redistribution. The general population weights are less progressive than those frequently used in the literature. We explore the implications of these weights for optimal income taxes. |
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Thu 21 Nov, '24- |
EBER Seminar - John ConlonS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle to be advised. |
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Thu 28 Nov, '24- |
EBER (DR@W) Seminar - Sanchayan BanerjeeS2.77 Cowling RoomThe title of presentation will be: An experimental evaluation of the acceptability of meat taxes. Evidence from Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and the UK. Short bio: Sanchayan Banerjee is an Associate Professor (Sr. Lecturer) in Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a visiting fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and an affiliate of Amsterdam Sustainability Institute. His research focuses on developing citizen-oriented, participatory behavioural public policies and testing them in areas of food and energy policy, public health and charitable donations. He is an Editor of Behavioural Public Policy, an editorial member of Scientific Reports and PLOS One, and an Associated Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journals. He sits on the Steering Committee of the International Behavioural Public Policy Association. He is the founding chair and convener of Behavioural Transformations, an annual workshop of behavioural public policy for early career researchers. Sanchayan holds a PhD (2022) and MSc (2018) from the London School of Economics |
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Thu 5 Dec, '24- |
EBER (DR@W) Seminar - Bruno FermanS2.79Title to be advised. |