WORKSHOPS

Am 24. und 25. März 2025 fand an der Universität Paderborn die 17. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie statt. 

Keynotes:

• Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin – Madison) zum Thema „What can Economics say about Alzheimer’s disease?“
• Friedrich Breyer (Universität Konstanz) zum Thema „Alterung, Pflegeausgaben und nachhaltige Finanzierung“ 

Zum Abschluss der Jahrestagung haben sich Kirsten Thommes (Universität Paderborn) und Hendrik Jürges (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Debattenduellen gestellt – mit Mitgliedern des Debattierclubs der Universität Münster e. V. zu den Themen Pflegeroboter und Gesundheitsdaten.

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Die Nachwuchsgruppe „Ökologische Transformation, Arbeitsmarkt, Aus- und Weiterbildung“ (ÖkTAAWe) ist ein Verbundprojekt von RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen) und IAB – Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (Nürnberg) in Kooperation mit der Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (HdBA Mannheim) und erforscht die Auswirkungen der ökologischen Transformation auf den Arbeitsmarkt. Dazu untersucht die Nachwuchsgruppe Folgen für Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer und die Sozialpolitik sowie die Rolle von Aus- und Weiterbildung zur Unterstützung der Transformationsprozesse.

Am 3. und 4. Dezember wird der erste Workshop der Nachwuchsgruppe stattfinden, bei dem der Austausch mit Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung, Politik und Forschung im Mittelpunkt stehen soll.

Ort: RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., E-Werk (Erdgeschoss), Hohenzollernstraße 1-3, 45128 Essen

Programm für den 3. Dezember 2024: Austausch mit Wirtschaft, Politik, Verwaltung und Gesellschaft

Programm für den 4. Dezember 2024: Austausch mit der Wissenschaft

Wie können wir eine sozial gerechte Mobilität gestalten? – Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, und was diese für die Verkehrspolitik bedeuten

Datum: Dienstag, 12. November 2024
Ort: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Chausseestraße 111, Berlin
Zeit: 18 bis 20 Uhr, mit anschließendem Ausklang

Der Verkehrssektor steht vor großen Herausforderungen im Zuge der Mobilitätswende. Eine der relevanten Fragen dabei ist, wie dieser Wandel ökologisch und zugleich sozial gerecht gestaltet werden kann.

Dazu laden das Bündnis sozialverträgliche Mobilitätswende, das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung und die Stiftung Mercator zur Diskussionsveranstaltung ein. Das Bündnis sozialverträgliche Mobilitätswende bringt dabei konkrete Forderungen zu einer gerechten Mobilitätswende aus der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Arbeit ein, während das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus der evidenzbasierten Mobilitätsforschung beiträgt. Gemeinsam möchten wir einen Raum für offenen Dialog schaffen und eine spannende Paneldiskussion ermöglichen. Unsere Panelisten beleuchten das Thema aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Hier treffen verschiedene Positionen und Interessen einer sozialverträglichen Gestaltung der Mobilitätswende aufeinander.

Dabei wollen wir zentrale Fragen in den Fokus rücken: Was zeichnet eine sozial gerechte Verkehrswende aus? Wie kann eine nachhaltige und klimaverträgliche Mobilität gefördert werden? Wie werden konkrete verkehrspolitische Maßnahmen und ihre potenziellen Reformoptionen in der Bevölkerung wahrgenommen? Welche Barrieren bestehen im Zugang zu nachhaltiger Mobilität und wie können sie überwunden werden?

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The third “Causal Inference with Spatial Data” workshop, organized by FDZ Ruhr and held at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany, will bring together young and senior researchers who are working on causal inference problems requiring the use of spatial data. Starting at noon of the 26^th September and finishing in the afternoon of the 27^th of September, the two-day workshop will host presentations in its three broad focus areas in Housing & Urban Development, Environmental & Health, and Labor & Mobility including a PhD poster session as well as four keynote speaker presentations.

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We are pleased to announce the 9^th Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment on the 10^th and 11^th of September 2024. The workshop will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum. We are very happy to welcome Astrid Dannenberg (University of Kassel), Lorenz Goette (National University of Singapore) and John List (University of Chicago) as keynote speakers.

We are building a programme to promote the contribution of experiments to environmental economics and policy. Priority will be given to early career researchers (PhD students/postdocs), but submissions from researchers at all career levels are welcome. We encourage submission of projects at all stages and will plan sessions with pre-analysis plans, preliminary results, and working papers.

Workshop date: 10^th and 11^th of September 2024
Organizer: RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Location: Ruhr University Bochum

Call For Papers Deadline: 31^st of May 2024

You can find more information here.

Call for Papers

Datum: 8. bis 9. Februar 2024
Mit finanzieller Unterstützung des RWI und Grenoble Ecole de Management

Zum Programm

New approaches to research on philanthropy have deepened the understanding of giving behavior. They include the ascent of field experiments on fundraising where charities are perceived as active parties. Others include the influence of behavioral economics on our understanding of how social interactions affect donations. The channels through which people donate have recently changed as well. For example, the role of online activities like donation-based crowdfunding is increasing. The emergence of big data and machine learning enables identifying and targeting individual’s charitable tastes. There are still many open questions and finding answers to them requires new approaches. This workshop aims to bring together scholars in order to foster exchange on new methods in charitable giving research and strengthen the network between researchers in Europe and overseas.

Organizers

Dr. Maja Adena (WZB), maja.adena@wzb.eu

Prof. Dr. Steffen Huck (WZB), steffen.huck@wzb.eu

Dr. Mark Andor (RWI), mark.andor@rwi-essen.de

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Program of the workshop

The “Causal Inference with Spatial Data” workshop, organized by FDZ Ruhr and held at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany, on 9th and 10th May 2022 brought together young and senior researchers who are working on causal inference problems requiring the use of spatial data. With its four broad focus areas in Housing Markets, Environment and Energy, Economic History, and Human Capital and Labor, the two-day workshop hosted twelve presentations- three in each session. Additionally, every session had its own keynote speaker.
 

The keynote speakers for our workshop were: 

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics and Political Science, Housing Markets  

Anna Alberini, University of Maryland, Environment and Energy  

Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania, Human Capital and Labor

Erik Hornung, University of Cologne, Economic History

The FDZ Ruhr at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research hosted the 1st FDZ Ruhr Regional Disparity Workshop in Essen, Germany, September 19th-20th, 2019. It featured a rich program with state-of-the-art research in regional economics: segregation and regional inequality, housing, spatial econometric methods, and related fields. Non-tenured economists like PhD students, young post-docs, and assistant professors were invited to submit an abstract to fdz@rwi-essen.de by 16 June 2019. Accepted participants had the opportunity to interact with invited experts in regional economics.

The workshop thereby brought together an international assembly of both together young and experienced scholars who share a common interest on the topic of regional disparities. Its goal was to promote the exchange of ideas and experience.

The keynote speakers were:

Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics, UK)
R. Kelley Pace (Louisiana State University, USA)

What is special for young researcher?

One-on-one mentoring support for young researcher by an experienced scholar

There was no participation fee. Expenses for travel and a one-night accommodation expenses in the conference hotel and a conference dinner on September 19th was covered.

Organizer:
FDZ Ruhr

On September 16-17, 2019, CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London) and RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research hosted their 2nd joint workshop on the ‘Economics of Migration’ in Essen, Germany. The aim of the workshop was to bring together young and experienced researchers to present and discuss their work in the broad area of migration economics. Both empirical and theoretical contributions were welcome. The workshop was organized in a manner designed to foster interaction among the participants in a relaxed atmosphere.

The keynote lecture was given by:
Jackie Wahba (University of Southampton)
Francesco Fasani (Queen Mary University of London)

Organizers:
Julia Bredtmann (RWI)
Sebastian Otten (CReAM)

The 1st RWI Empirical Environmental Economics Workshop brought together some of the world’s best empirical, environmental economists, in particular those working in the energy and transportation sector. It consisted of 45 minutes presentations including discussion. There were also time slots for shorter presentations by PhD students/younger faculty.

The organizers are grateful for financial support by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

Organizers:
Mark A. Andor (RWI)
Mike Price (University of Alabama, NBER and RWI)

In July 2019, RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research hosted the final workshop of the project “Worker Flows, Match Quality and Productivity” in the Birschel Mühle in Hattingen, Germany. The project included labour economists from CERGE-EI Prague, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, IfW Kiel, RWI and Universität Bayreuth, and was financed by the Leibniz Association.

The aim of the workshop was to bring together young and experienced researchers from the project and beyond to present and discuss their work in the area of worker flows, worker-firm match quality and labour market institutions.

Overall, the project aimed at analysing the determinants of worker flows as well as the effects of worker flows on the quality of employer-employee matches.

The workshop was organized such as to foster interaction among the participants in a relaxed atmosphere, to discuss ongoing research projects, and to create potential new research ideas, with a focus on the effects of technological change and labour-market policies on worker flows.

Invited speakers were:
Daniel Baumgarten (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Priscila Ferreira (University of Minho)
Boris Hirsch (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Pedro Raposo (Católica Lisbon)
Simon Woodcock (Simon Fraser University)

Organizer:
RWI