Workshop on Happiness, Meaning, and Society

Program:

9:30 Welcome with coffee & tea

9:45-10:45 Tobias Wolf (Freie Universität Berlin), Maria Metzing (DIW Berlin), and Richard Lucas

(Michigan State University) - Experienced Well-Being and Labor Market Status: The Role of Pleasure and Meaning

Discussant: Spyridon Stavropoulos (EHERO)

10:45-11:45 Maria Cotofan (Erasmus School of Economics), Lea Cassar (Cologne University), Robert Dur (Erasmus School of Economics), and Stephan Meier (Columbia Business School) - Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

Discussant: Jan van Ours (Erasmus School of Economics, EHERO)

Joint with TI Micro Seminars; Sandwiches will be served

12:00-13:15 Jan-Emmanuel de Neve (University of Oxford), Clement Imbert (University of Warwick), Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics), Teodora Tsankova (University of Warwick), and Maarten Luts (FPS Finance) - How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium

Discussant: Aart Gerritsen (Erasmus School of Economics)

Short coffee & tea break

13:30-14:30 Clement Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics), Jan-Emmanuel de Neve (University of Oxford), and George Ward (MIT Sloan School of Management) - Does Employee Happiness Have an Impact on Productivity?

Discussant: Josse Delfgaauw (Erasmus School of Economics)

14:30-15:30 Martijn Burger (Erasmus School of Economics, EHERO), Martijn Hendriks (EHERO), Emma Pleeging (EHERO), and Jan van Ours (Erasmus School of Economics, EHERO) - The Joy of Lottery Play: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Discussant: Robert Dur (Erasmus School of Economics)

The workshop is organized by Maria Cotofan and Robert Dur and sponsored by EHERO and the Tinbergen Institute.

Location of the workshop: Woudestein campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, room M2-10 (Van der Goot Building).

Participation is free, no registration needed.