Venice Summer Institute 2022: Emergence and Dynamics of Personality and Attitudes over the Life Cycle
San Servolo, Venice, Italy
Scientific Organizers: Professor David E. Bloom and Professor Uwe Sunde
Economists typically view personality, attitudes and preferences as central determinants of decision making. While there is a consensus that heterogeneity in personality traits and preferences is an important driver of socio-economic outcomes, the emergence and development of personality traits and attitudes as well as their malleability and dynamics across the life cycle are still not well understood. Recent evidence has documented the role of non-cognitive skills that are formed early in life, often even in pre-school ages, for socio-economic outcomes in adulthood.
At the same time, some traits have been shown to change systematically over the life cycle, particularly in old age. The focus of this workshop will be on gaining a better understanding of the determinants and life-cycle profiles of personality traits and attitudes.
Keynote speakers:
Armin Falk, briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality & University of Bonn
Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics
Program
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Monday, 27 June 2022
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & Introduction Session 1
09:15 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture:
Fairness and morality in economics
BERTIL TUNGODDEN (NHH)10:00 – 10:30
Triggering Parental Time-Investments on Preschool Children through a mindful parenting program
MARGHERITA FORT (University of Bologna), Maria Bigoni, Chaira Monfardini, Annalisa Guarini, Chiara Suttora and Alessandra Sansavini10:30 – 11:00 The Right Timing Matters: Identifying Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills
DANIEL KAMHÖFER (University of Duesseldorf), Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 2
11:30 – 12:00
The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: Causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
THOMAS BUSER (University of Amsterdam), Teodora Boneva, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse12:00 – 12:30
Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
MIRIAM GENSOWSKI (Rockwool Foundation) and Esteban Garcia-Miralles12:30 – 13:00
Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-emotional Skills
ALESSANDRO TOPPETA (UCL), Aureo de Paula, Orazio Attanasio13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
Session 3
14:00 – 14:30
Self-Confidence and Motivated Memory Loss: Evidence From Schools
VIVEK ROY-CHOWDHURY (University of Cambridge)14:30 – 15:00
The Effect of Having a Sister on Attitudes
JOHANNA REUTER (Johannes Kepler University Linz) and Marin Habets15:00 – 15:30
Spillover effects across values
FABIEN PETIT (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
Session 4
16:00 – 16:30
Prosociality and competition: Evidence from a long-run field experiment
FABIAN KOSSE (LMU Munich), Ranjita Rajan and Michela Tincani16:30 – 17:00
Shaking Preferences: Earthquakes, Time Preference and Household Savings
KRISZTINA MOLNAR (NHH)17:00 – 17:30 Emotions and Risk Attitudes
ARMANDO MEIER (University of Lusanne)19:30 Conference Dinner on San Servolo
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Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Session 5
09:00 – 09:45
Keynote Lecture:
Inequality, social environment and mentoring
ARMIN FALK (briq)09:45 – 10:15
The Effect of Education on Patience - Global Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
THOMAS DOHMEN (University of Bonn), Radost Holler, Uwe Sunde10:15 – 10:45 Personal life events and individual risk preferences
PAUL BOKERN (Maastricht University), Jona Linde, Arno Riedl, Hans Schmeets, Peter Werner10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
Session 6
11:15 – 11:45
How Property Shapes Distributional Preferences
MARIA BIGONI (University of Bologna) and Macro Fabbri11:45 – 12:15
Does Demography Determine Democratic Attitudes?
RAINER KOTSCHY (Harvard) and Uwe Sunde12:15 – 12:45
The Political Scar of Epidemics
ORKUN SAKA (City University and LSE)13:00
Lunch and End of Conference
