ICES Seminars are formal day long visits. Scholars visit and meet with students and faculty of our center to share their research. The day includes the seminar presentation which is open to the public.
These seminars are held on Friday from 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST (see schedule for any changes). The seminars are currently being held virtually via Zoom. Contact ICES Office Manager (sbahabib@gmu.edu) to request Zoom links.
Please visit our Events archive to see previous speakers and topics.
Spring 2021 Schedule
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
| February 12 | The Will of the People: How do Individuals Aggregate Ordinal Preferences? | Abstract | Sandro Ambuehl | University of Zurich |
| February 19 | Self-regulation Training in Primary Schools Improves Academic Achievements and Long-Term Educational Career Paths | Abstract | Daniel Schunk | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| March 5 | Adverse Selection and Contingent Reasoning in Preadolescents and Teenagers | Abstract | Isabelle Brocas | University of Southern California |
| March 12 | Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap | Abstract | Heather Sarsons | University of Chicago |
| Thursday, March 18 | Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives | Abstract | Lise Vesterlund | University of Pittsburgh |
| March 26 | Genetic Fortune: Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health | Abstract | Philipp Koellinger | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| April 9 | Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics | Abstract | Olga Stoddard | Brigham Young University |
| April 16 | Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-being | Abstract | Dan Benjamin | University of California, Los Angeles |
| April 23 | Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply | Abstract | Georg Weizsäcker | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| April 30 | Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice | Abstract | Melis Kartal | University of Vienna |