The IAB Special Lecture Series invites outstanding international researchers across the Social Sciences to present their current work. Guest lecturers are selected on excellent academic merit and typically have made significant contributions to their respective fields and continue to actively shape international research agendas. The IAB Special Lecture Series aims to provide a unique opportunity to IAB researchers as well as researchers from other research entities to discuss the work and share their expertise with the speaker during the presentation, and to receive feedback on their own research projects during individual talks with the speakers.
Location
Until further notice, the lectures will be a hybrid event.
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Events in 2027
- 11.11.2027
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Associate Prof. Dr. Milena Tsvetkova, London School of Economics and Political Science - 14.07.2027
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Prof. Delia Baldassarri, PhD, New York University - 03.03.2027
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Prof. Anat Gofen, Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 14.01.2027
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Prof. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, PhD, Berlin Social Science Center
Events in 2026
- 15.12.2026
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Prof. Benjamin Schoefer, PhD, Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 19.10.2026
Title: Interlinked Transitions: Partnership Formation and Labour Market Entry among Young Male Refugees in Germany
Prof. Dr. Irena Kogan, Universität Mannheim - 23.07.2026
Title: Carbon, Natural Capital and the Option Values of Climate Policies
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, TU Berlin - 30.04.2026
Title: Homo ignorans: Deliberate Ignorance and the Limits of Curiosity
Speaker: Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Ralph Hertwig (Director of the Research Department of Adaptive Rationality and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research) - 05.03.2026
Title: The evolution of gender in the labour market: Inequality, (in)efficiency and stereotypes
Speaker: Prof. Barbara Petrongolo, PhD (University of Oxford)
Events in 2025
- 04.12.2025
Labor force participation among prime-age men in the United States: Considerations of dignity and health
Speaker: Prof. Sarah Halpern-Meekin, PhD (University of Wisconsin Madison) - 16.09.2025, 01:00 – 02:30 p.m.
Prosociality and Layoffs
Speaker: Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier (University of California) - 23.06.2025, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Moving from Individual to Relational Models of Inequality, and the important role of linked employer-employee data
Speaker: Prof. Don Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) - 15.01.2025, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Does automation replace experts or augment expertise? The answer is yes.
Speaker: Professor David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Organizers
- Yuliya Kosyakova (IAB, University of Bamberg)
- Martin Friedrich (IAB)
- Theresa Koch (IAB)
- Tim Kovalenko (IAB)
- Jonathan Latner (IAB)
- Adrian Lerche (IAB)
Contact
E-Mail: IAB.Special-Lecture@iab.de