Wintersemester 2007/2008
December, 3-7, 2007.
Programme and lecture documentation (if available):
Monday, December 3rd
- Ben Jann: Double Standards in Just Earnings for Males and Females? A Replication Study on Earnings Judgments and Sex Discrimination (PDF-document, 250 Kb)
- Christiane Gross: Fairness Judgments of the Allocation of Organs. Findings of a Factorial Survey (PDF-document, 180 Kb)
- Andreas Diekmann and Reto Meyer: Time Preferences and Energy Saving: Results from the Swiss Environmental Survey (PDF-document, 1.400 Kb)
- Johannes Bauer: The Applicability of Benford’s Law. Fraud Detection in the Social Sciences (PDF-document, 150 Kb)
- Jochen Groß: Pre-Election Polling in Germany 1949-2005 (PDF-document, 750 Kb)
- Dominik Hangartner and Thomas Gautschi: New Results from the Zurich Drug Market and Population Estimates
- Peter Kriwy: Social Change and Income Inequality. Results of the German Mikrozensus 1962-2005 (PDF-document, 140 Kb)
- Tanja Zähle: Marriage Market or Labor Market? Cohabitation Histories and Working Decisions of (Poor) Single Mothers (PDF-document, 110 Kb)
Tuesday, December 4th
- Jeff Gill and Dominik Hangartner: Circular Data in Social Science and How to Handle it
- Natascha Nisic: Labor Market Outcomes of Mobile Couples: Who Gains, who Loses? Evidence on Germany (PDF-document, 50 Kb)
- Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz and Martin Abraham: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Factorial Survey Analysis of Locational Decisions within Dual-Earner Partnerships (PDF-document, 90 Kb)
- Judith Jahn: Who chooses Higher Education? Ethnic Inequality in Educational Decisions among Secondary School Students (PDF-document, 270 Kb)
- Christoph Bühler: The Transition from School-to-Work in Russia during and after Socialism: Change or Continuity?
- Rolf Ziegler: Context of Founding and Survival Chances of Businesses (PDF-document, 260 Kb)
- Simone Wagner: Survival and Growth of New Organizational Forms: The German Local Exchange Trading Systems, (PDF-document, 70 Kb)
Wednesday, December 5th
- Dirk Helbing: Spontaneous Emergence and Breakdown of Order in Human Crowds (PDF-document, 3070 Kb)
- Sergi Lozano et al.: A Computational Approach to Structural and Cultural Dimensions of Social Cohesion (PDF-document, 410 Kb)
- Marc Keuschnigg: The Bestseller Phenomenon. Quality, Word of Mouth and Past Consumption (PDF-document, 700 Kb)
- Sonja Pointner and Axel Franzen: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Karl-Dieter Opp: An Integration and Empirical Test of Albert Hirschman’s Theory and the Theory of Collective Action (PDF-document, 360 Kb)
- Andreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka: Experiments with Signaling Games. Evidence from Russia and Switzerland (PDF-document, 1150 Kb)
- Roger Berger: Can Roger Do, What Roger Can? Optimal Serving in Tennis (PDF-document, 190 Kb)
Thursday, December 6th
- Manuela Vieth and Dirk Helbing: Trust and Information. Experimental Investigation
- Heiko Rauhut: The Competitive Advantage of Strong Sanctioning Institutions
- Ulf Liebe: Fairness and Status among Youths
- Andreas Tutic: Status-Mediated Inequity Aversion
- Stefan Wehrli, Dominik Hangartner and Martin Abraham: What’s Really in a Name? An Assessment of Feedback Mechanisms (PDF-document, 530 Kb)
- Michael Mäs: The Double Edge of Demographic Faultlines. The Neglected Effects of Crisscrossing on Cohesion and Performance in Work Teams (PDF-document, 250 Kb)