Summer school 2021: Household Decision Making and Human Capital in Life-Cycle Models
Date: August 16-22, 2021
Venue: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn
Organization: Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, David Koll, and Philipp Eisenhauer
The Collaborative Research Center TR 224 organized a Summer School on Household Decision Making and Human Capital in Life-Cycle Models. The event was held at the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn from 16 August to 22 August 2021. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it was held in hybrid form, with almost 50 students and lecturers attending in person and more online. For its organization, the CRC joined forces with the organizers of the Econometric Society's Dynamic Structural Econometrics series. Lecturers included (in alphabetical order) Orazio Attanasio (Yale), Monica Costa Dias (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Maria Cristina Di Nardi (University of Minnesota), Philipp Eisenhauer (University of Bonn), Eric French (University of Cambridge), Hans Martin von Gaudecker (University of Bonn), James J Heckman (University of Chicago), Fedor Iskhakov (Australian National University), Michael Keane (UNSW), Karen Kopecky (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Hamish Low (University of Oxford), Robert Miller (Carnegie-Mellon), John Rust (Georgetown), Simon Scheidegger (University of Zürich), and Bertel Schjerning (University of Copenhagen). After a long draught, everybody who was present on-site enjoyed the personal interactions and fruitful discussions. The summer school received raving reviews in anonymous course evaluation survey held in its wake.
Summer school videos
DSE 2021 conference videos
