Research
Managing Selection in the Analysis of Economic Outcomes Workshop
Economic
analysis of outcomes often must account for the selection of economic agents
into groups, partnerships, networks, and institutions before the outcome
happens. Yet selection is rarely modelled explicitly and rigorously by
economists, and may differ across samples and subpopulations of people. How do
economists manage this problem, given that they wish to derive generalizable
analytical results about the nature of the outcome? Are the tools economists use
to manage selection sufficiently developed and credible? How do these tools
differ across different branches of economics – in network theory, the analysis
of field data, and economic experiments – and can scholars working in these
fields learn from each other about ways they might handle selection?
A two-day workshop will be held at the University of South Australia on 28-29
July 2008 to promote intra-disciplinary collaboration between economic
empiricists, theorists, and experimentalists around these questions. The
workshop is designed for scholars working in different subfields of
microeconomics and micro-econometrics who are interested in advancing their
knowledge of how selection is variously controlled, modelled, or exploited in
the analysis of microeconomic outcomes. The workshop will consist both of
traditional paper presentations and mini-workshops, each led by a field
specialist, about how selection is approached in different economic subfields.
This workshop is being organised by Dr Gigi Foster (UniSA) and Dr Virginie
Masson (U of Adelaide). Funding has been generously provided by the Economic
Design Network, the University of South Australia’s School of Commerce, and the
University of Adelaide’s School of Economics.
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Announcement
Professor Carol Kulik has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2007. This was in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The recognition ceremony took place on April 27th at the Opening Session of the 2007 SIOP Annual Conference attended by 4,100 conference attendees in New York.
The citation of her contribution read: Professor Kulik is a highly influential scholar whose work bridges the academic-practice divide and makes connections between theoretically rich concepts and real-world organizational issues. Her major contributions to the literature include diversity and discrimination, organizational justice, and social comparison processes in organizations; her research focuses on explaining how human resource management interventions influence the fair treatment of people in organizations. She exemplifies bridging the research-practice gap with her publications for practicing managers.
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Working in collaboration with other universities, industry, government, the professions and community groups, the Division's focus has been on applied research that produces substantial benefits for both the business and general communities.
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