WZB Talks
The series "WZB Talks" provides the WZB community as well as interested external guests with the opportunity to get to know the WZB research agenda better: Researchers present their current work, followed by a discussion with the audience.
Due the coronavirus pandemic, WZB Talks are currently being held online as Zoom conferences. Log-in details are provided within the invitations for each seminar.
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Some of the talks are recorded, the audio files are made available on this website, please see the link under the respective program entry.
If you want to join the public sessions, please register here. Zoom details will be sent subsequently.
Inclusive Politics? How Politicians’ Ethnicity and Gender Shape Representation
WZB Talk by Liza Mügge
Internal, no recording
WZB Talk by Katja Salomo
Understanding the Response to High-Stakes Incentives in Primary
WZB Talk by Max Bach and Mira Fischer
WZB Talk by Jan Paul Heisig
WZB Talk by Hans-Joachim Voth
WZB Talk by Anna Holzscheiter
Highlighting Best and Worst Practices in the Gig Economy: An Introduction to the Fairwork Foundation
WZB Talk by Mark Graham
WZB Talk by Thiemo Fetzer
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth
WZB Talk by Julia Lynch
WZB Talk by Milan Svolik
WZB Talk by Evan Lieberman
WZB Talk by Tine Hanrieder
WZB Talk by Lena Hipp
Technological Change and Formal Further Education – Does automation risk influence aspirations and plans to pursue a new educational certificate in Germany?
WZB Talk by Martin Ehlert
Pathways to sustainable mobility: Radical socio-technical change or sustained path dependencies?
WZB Talk by Lisa Ruhrort
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Beyond the enclave? Far-right mobilization, ethnic infrastructure and the well-being of immigrants and their descendants
WZB Talk by Jonas Wiedner
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
The Mobilization Potential of Anti-Corona Protests in Germany
WZB Talk by Swen Hutter
Origins and Destinations: intergenerational transmission of political behaviours in immigrant families
WZB Talk by Renee R. Luthra and Magda Borkowska
Pension Policy Literacy and Retirement Expectations
WZB Talk by Jonas Radl and Juan J. Fernández
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Success of Populism in Western Europe and Germany: Electoral Effects of Parties’ and Voters’ Repositioning
WZB Talk by Bernhard Weßels
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Alcohol and short-run mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition
WZB Talk by Kai Barron
The impact of student finance policy on student employment
WZB Talk by Krzysztof Czarnecki
Building State Capacity: What is the impact of development projects?
WZB Talk by Stuti Khemani
Did sanctions help Putin?
WZB Talk by Aleksandra Peeva
Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences: a Guidebook for Fieldwork Protection and Digital Security
WZB Talk by Ilyas Saliba and Jannis Grimm
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
How to Make the Perfect Citizen? The Instrumentalisation of Civic Virtue in China's Social Credit System
WZB Talk by Liav Orgad
Trumpism in America
WZB Talk by Peter Katzenstein
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners
WZB Talk by Vojtech Bartos (with Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlikova, and Julie Chytilova)
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Worried about the Corona Virus? Tell Each Other about it!
WZB Talk by Valentina di Stasio
Games Played by Teams of Players
WZB Talk by Thomas Palfrey
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Anti-feminist Backlash in the UN
WZB Talk by Jelena Cupać and İrem Ebetürk
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Attention and Decision Making
WZB Talk by Peter N.C. Mohr
Advice, Social Learning and the Evolution of Conventions and Culture
WZB Talk by Andrew Schotter
Beliefs in Repeated Games
WZB Talk by Guillaume Fréchette
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Unconscious or Behavioral: Psychological States in International Law
WZB Talk by Ríán Derrig
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
7 July 2020, 5 pm
The Essential Role of External and Construct Validity for Causal Identification
WZB Talk by David Brady
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
WZB Talk by Davide Cantoni
The Strength of Weak Ties: Education Externalities and Intergenerational Mobility in Benin
WZB Talk by Leonard Wantchekon
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
16 June 2020, 12:15 pm
Face Masks Increase Compliance with Physical Distancing Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
WZB Talk by Yiming Liu and Jana Friedrichsen
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
How Do We Choose Our Identity?
A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
WZB Talk by Moses Shayo
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
The Virus That Knows No Borders?
Border Permeability and the Global Diffusion of COVID-19
WZB Talk by Ruud Koopmans
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)
The (not so) Secret Science behind US Campaigns
WZB Talk by David Nickerson
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Lying Aversion
WZB Talk by Agne Kajackaite
Inequality, Identity, and the Mobilization of Resentment
WZB Talk by Daniel Ziblatt
Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Social and political correlates of Covid-19
WZB Talk by Macartan Humphreys
It’s not just balancing liberty vs. life & health: Some basic rights surrounding Corona restrictions
WZB Talk by Mattias Kumm
Degendering: How the conception of women’s part-time work changed in Norway
WZB Talk by Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Anatomy of a Riot: Participation in Communal Violence in Nigeria
WZB Talk by Alex Scacco
New ethical principles for field research
WZB Talk by Macartan Humphreys
Social preferences in refugee and host community children: an experiment at Jordanian double-shift schools
WZB Talk by Steffen Huck
Gender, Beliefs, and Coordination with Externalities
WZB Talk by Timothy Cason
A Vote for Europe? The 2019 European Parliament Election from the Voters' Perspective
WZB Talk by Edgar Grande
How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments at Public Offices
WZB Talk by Dorothea Kübler