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CERGE-EI Media Highlights for May
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// CREATION DATE MOVED UP ?>"We say it's important to invest in infrastructure and it’s important to note that education is also a part of infrastructure," said Jan Švejnar on the radio program Interview Plus.
Poverty and People's Economic Behaviour
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// CREATION DATE MOVED UP ?>Thinking about poverty leads to greater impatience – people tend to postpone unpleasant activities. This effect may then contribute to the long-term nature of poverty. This is the result of an experiment reported in a joint paper published in the Economic Journal by Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely.
Dissertation Workshop presentations started
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// CREATION DATE MOVED UP ?>This week the Dissertation Workshop presentations are taking place.
A Year's Worth of Great IDEAs
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// CREATION DATE MOVED UP ?>IDEA, the think-tank of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences focusing on policy-relevant research and recommendations, just published its annual Book of Abstracts.
People of CERGE-EI: Meet Our Alumni
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// CREATION DATE MOVED UP ?>Karel Musil, our MAE graduate from 2014, already held a Ph.D. degree when he decided to apply to the Master in Applied Economics program at CERGE-EI.