Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Tuesday January 30th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Kairong Xiao
Title Not Available

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 332
Management Seminar -- Michael I. Norton (Harvard Business School)
The Psychology of Ritual

Thursday February 1st

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 307
Marketing Seminar -- Caio Waisman (Stanford)
Title Not Available

Friday February 2nd

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Competitive Strategy Seminar - Jan Eeckhout
The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications (with Jan De Loecker)

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday January 30th 

2:40pm to 4:00pm - 19 W 4th Street Room 517
NYU Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Michael Shadlen (Columbia)
Perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection

Article of the Week
Vaccine attitude rises and falls with ideology
Three members of the political science faculty at the University of Idaho recently published a paper examining the link between self-reported political ideology and the decision to vaccinate. Survey respondents were asked whether they would vaccinate against three different diseases (whooping cough, measles, and the flu). They found that people with strong conservative views were less likely to vaccinate than were individuals with strong liberal views. In addition, the researchers stated that their findings suggest that participants' trust levels impact ideology and, in turn, the decision to vaccinate.