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NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 103, Issue 1

Posted June 24, 2019 - 07:07

In this issue we feature 6 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

  1. An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games - Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Sutter, Matthia;
  2. Network Effects in Internal Migration - Laszlo Lorincz; Brigitta Nemeth;
  3. The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers - Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; Chávez, Mariana; Dean, Andre;
  4. Identity and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence - Sanjit Dhami; Emma Manifold; Ali al-Nowaihi;
  5. Immigration, Social Networks, and Occupational Mismatch - Sevak Alaverdyan; Anna Zaharieva;
  6. Ostracism in alliances of teams and individuals: Voting, exclusion, contribution, and earnings - Stephan Huber; Jochen Model; Silvio Städter.

Report on the International Symposium On Ageing Well and Public Service Delivery: Policy & Practice 15-16 June 2019 Beijing, China

Posted June 22, 2019 - 21:44

Convened by Tsinghua University (Beijing) and a consortium of partners in other Universities, Ageing Centres, Associations and Public Organisations, the Ageing Well theme focussed on:

  • Building a health care policy system,
  • Cultivating professional personnel talents, and
  • Developing high quality health care services.

The urgency was stressed, i.e. to ensure healthy environments for ageing and to optimise public service delivery.

AI, Cities and Climate Change: Whoever Said It Would Be Easy? - NewCities, Josef Konvitz

Posted June 16, 2019 - 15:19

Josef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair and Associate Fellow, Resilience, NewCities, attended a day-long conference on 21 May last month, sponsored by the NewCities Foundation, on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change. Held in the sumptuous grand hall of the Paris City Hall, the subject highlighted the importance of public actors and local innovators.

Building Good Sustainable Communities through the Learning City EcCoWell Approach

Posted June 16, 2019 - 07:46
EcCoWell

EcCoWell was developed by the PASCAL International Observatory in 2012 (PIE), based on the experience of Taipei city, as an approach to developing learning cities in a holistic and cohesive manner. The emergence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with a similar requirement for holistic development has enhanced the significance of the EcCoWell experience.

Winners of the UALL Awards 2019 are announced

Posted June 11, 2019 - 13:02

The UALL Awards ceremony took place at the formal dinner of the 2019 UALL Conference, Lifelong Learning and Innovation, and were awarded by our Chair, The Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil.

Learning Cities and Culture Working Together - A collection of papers from the 2nd Learning Festival of Pécs, Hungary

Posted June 11, 2019 - 08:42

The organisers of the 2nd Learning Festival of Pécs, Hungary decided in the Spring of 2018 to develop and organise a special conference with the title: Learning Cities and Culture Working Together. Featured here is a collection of papers from the event.

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