June 3–4, 2024
Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building
The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and the Toulouse School of Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences (TSE) has been hosted the 11th annual workshop on Economics and Biology, themed Inequality in Networks.
Background
Research on social networks emphasizes that social relations provide individuals with essential access to resources, opportunities, and information. Fundamental mechanisms of network formation, such as homophily, can contribute to and amplify preferential access to such resources, often resulting in greater disparities than expected based solely on initial differences. The resulting disparities, whether they be social, economic, or cultural, pose significant challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies. Evolutionary anthropologists, biologists, sociologists and economists alike have therefore devoted a significant amount of attention to the following question, which is proposed to be the central question of the workshop: What are the determinants and the consequences of inequality in networks?
This year's speaker lineup:
Sarah Alami, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Michael Bailey, Meta
Per Block, University of Zürich
Matt Eliott, Cambridge University
Matthew Jackson, Stanford
Balázs Lengyel, Corvinus University
Abigail Page, Brunel University London
Eleanor Power, LSE
Elspeth Ready, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology
Gert Stulp, University of Gronigen
Milena Tsvetkova, LSE
Yves Zenou, Monash University
Posters: Besides the plenary sessions, there will be a poster session to which postdocs and Ph.D. students are most welcome to submit applications (abstract + CV + cover letter) to econbio_poster@iast.fr no later than April 15, 2024.
Organizers: Maxime Derex, Marion Hoffman, Marijn Keijzer & Jonathan Stieglitz
Location: Toulouse School of Economics
Dates: June 3-4, 2024
Registration: Online registration is closed (required to attend the conference). Note that presentations are upon invitation only. The event is held in-person and will not be streamed online.
Contact: For further information, please send an email to econbio@iast.fr
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This event is funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-17-EURE-0010.
Funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 789111 - ERC EvolvingEconomics) is gratefully acknowledged
Reference
11th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 3–4, 2024.