4-day PhD course in Behavioural Economics October 13-17

The Choice Lab is organizing a 4-day PhD level course in Behavioural Economics from October 13-17 in Bergen, Norway. The course will be taught by Uri Gneezy of the Rady School of Management (and co-author of recently released book The Why Axis). The course outline is as follows:

Monday October 13  
08.30 – 09.15 Registration and coffee 
09.15 – 11.00 Lecture 1: Introduction to the art and science of behavior change 
11.15 – 13.00 Lecture 2: Incentives and wellness 
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch 
14.15 – 16.00 Lecture 3: Incentives and behavior change 
16.15 – 17.00 Student presentations 
17.00 - Social gathering 

Tuesday October 14 
09.15 – 11.00 Lecture 4: Deception-the roll of consequences 
11.15 – 12.30 Student presentations 
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch 
13.15 – 15.00 Lecture 5: Bribing the self 
15.30 – 17.00 Student presentations 

Wednesday, October 15 
09.15 – 11.00 Lecture 6: Gender differences in preferences 
11.15 – 13.00 Lecture 7: Reducing the gender gap—changing the workplace 
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch 
14.15 – 15.30 Lecture 8 (Staff seminar)  
15.45 – 17.00 Student presentations

Thursday, October 16  
09.15 – 11.00 Lecture 9: Experiments in firms—the non-profit sector 
11.15 – 13.00 Student presentations 
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch 
14.15 – 16.00 Lecture 10: Pricing experiments in firms 
19.00 Course dinner

Details & application form