Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (DICE) 20.3.2025

V rámci Research Seminar Series in Economics máme tu čest, že nám ve čtvrtek 12.3.2025 od 12:45 do 14:15 v místnosti RB338 bude přednášet Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (DICE)  o „Who is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from Two Experiments and a Survey“.

Registration is not required and anyone who would like to attend is warmly invited.

It is also possible to participate online via MS Teams at this link. In case of any connection issues, please contact lubomir.cingl@vse.cz.

ABSTRACT: Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from two online experiments on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on three different affirmative action policies. Our results rely on population-representative samples from the United States. We find that support for affirmative action is based both on self-serving motives and principled grounds (e.g., related to an individual’s altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views).

BIO: Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch specializes in the intersection of economics and psychology, with a focus on personality, self-control, overconfidence, and the psychology of incentives. Her expertise extends to applied microeconomics, where she explores the development and stability of time, risk, and social preferences, as well as the design of institutions and family economics. In the realm of public economics, she investigates public goods, inequality, and welfare economics. She is also deeply involved in the economics of education, particularly in skill formation and school-based interventions. She employs a variety of research methods, including laboratory and field experiments with both adults and children, applied microeconometrics, and survey design. Since 2016, she has served as a Professor of Behavioral and Empirical Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In 2021, she also became a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn.