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briq at a glance
Registered name: Behavior and Inequality Research Institute GmbH
Established: December 2015
Operational since: April 2016
Grand opening: September 2017
Organization
Funded by: Deutsche Post Foundation Management board: Prof. Dr. Armin Falk (CEO) Martin T. Clemens (CFO) Scientific council: Prof. Ulrike Malmendier, Ph.D. (chair), University of California, Berkeley Prof. Janet Currie, Ph.D., Princeton University Prof. James J. Heckman, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000 Nobel laureate 2000 Prof. Botond Kőszegi, Ph.D., Central European University Employees: 5 researchers, 3 admin staff, 10 student assistants (in 2019) Research visitors: 21 (in 2019) Visiting professors: 8 (as of 2019)Mission
The institute promotes innovative thinking and research in the fields of behavioral economics and the sources of inequality. This research aims at improving individual opportunities and social cohesion. briq provides a platform for the exchange of novel ideas and an infrastructure for the cooperation of international, top-level researchers. We believe that scientific, interdisciplinary research is a precondition for evidence-based policy advice and the evaluation of economic and social policies.Focus
Our research focuses on understanding individual decision making and behavior, as well as the causes and consequences of inequality. Areas of research include the foundations of decision making, behavioral applications to the fields of public and labor economics, the study of discrimination, and the malleability of moral behavior. A particularly important research interest is early childhood development and the formation of socio-emotional and cognitive skills.Cooperation with the University of Bonn
- Formal cooperation agreement to strengthen Bonn as a center of science
- Scholarship program for young researchers at Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
- Organization of weekly BGSE Applied Micro Workshops
Selected conferences and events:
- Early Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE)
- Workshop on Moral Reasoning
- briq/IZA Workshop on the Economics of Socio-emotional Skills
- Workshop on Structural Analysis of Inequality
- Summer Schools (alternating annually) on Socioeconomic Inequality / Behavioral Economics
Selected research projects:
- Bonn Intervention Panel (BIP)
- Global Preferences Survey (GPS)
- Foundations of Moral Behavior