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#AlumniLive: Unveiling Human Behavior: A Career in Behavioral Economics with Vojtěch Bartoš

27 November, 2023

We are pleased to invite CERGE-EI students&alumni to an #AlumniLive seminar with our PhD alumnus Vojtěch Bartoš, a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Italy. 

Please register for an offline event: https://forms.gle/FuQg33e9DdxSJd3G9

Or join us online: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/19796689, passcode: 8262

Program:

15:45 - 16:30 - lecture
16:30 - 16:45 - Q&A session
16:45 - 17:30 - coffee&snacks, networking 

Topics:

Personal career path
The most interesting projects Vojta has been involved
Current research projects

Moderator:

Eva Hromádková, CERGE-EI PhD in Economics alumna, an analyst at Czech National Bank

Vojtěch Bartoš is a Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) University of Milan (La Statale) and a Fellow of the Fondazione Cav. Lav. Carlo Pesenti. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität in Munich. His research interests include Behavioral economics, Development economics, Experimental economics, and Applied microeconomics in general. He focuses on studying various behavioral aspects of individual decision-making in poor and disadvantaged populations, both in developed and developing countries. His interests range from the effects of poverty and inequality on individual behavior and underlying sources of discrimination to the role formal institutions play in populations living mainly in informal or transitional arrangements. He has been involved in field experiments in Afghanistan, India, Malawi, and Uganda, Internet field experiments in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, and a lab experiment in Germany.