Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics

The paper “The Effect of Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply” by our former PhD student Nickolas Gagnon and our colleagues Kristof Bosmans and Arno Riedl is now available online at the Journal of Political Economy. Very nice!

Hannes Rusch and Lennart Reddmann organized the 2024 meeting of the Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network (CBEN) at our school in Maastricht. It was a great program with many interesting speakers!

Our PhD student Lars Wittrock successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Biased beliefs: Essays on information processing and elicitation.” Congratulations!

Our colleague Arno Riedl has received the prestigious fellowship of the French Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and will stay in Lyon at the Collegium de Lyon and GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne until June 2025.

The new academic year starts. A warm welcome to all new students and colleagues!

The paper “Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain” by our former post-doc Giannis Lois as well as Elias Tsakas and Arno Riedl has been published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN).

The paper “Replication studies in the Netherlands: Lessons learned and recommendations for funders, publishers and editors, and universities” by Charlotte Kroll and colleagues is now available online at Accountability in Research.

Egor Bronnikov published a book review of the book “After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability” by Monika Nalepa in the journal Democratization.