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Antonio Cabrales (University College London) will give a presentation on What You Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education Abstract : This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in...

Semiring Rank Matrix Factorisation by Thanh Le Van (KU Leuven) Abstract. Rank data, in which each row is a complete or partial ranking of available items (columns), is ubiquitous. It can be used to represent, for instance, preferences of users, the levels of gene expression, and the outcomes...

The Effect of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Marion Collewet, CORE This paper exploits variation in the regular length of the full-time workweek in the German public sector over time and across federal states to identify the effect of weekly working hours on life satisfaction. ...

Sara Lazzaroni (University of Bologna) will give a presentation on Historical roots of preferences over political regimes: Monarchy vs. Republic in 1946 Italy