19 May 2026 at 5:00PM (on-site) | Andreas Peichl (LMU Munich and ifo Institute) will present the paper “When (Declaring) Work Doesn’t Pay: An Experiment with Welfare Recipients“ in the next PLUS Economics Research Seminar. The presentation will take place in room HS 241 (EBMÖOG2.01). Looking forward to seeing you in the seminar!

Last week, Assistant Professor Simone Häckl discussed the importance of parental beliefs for children’s educational outcomes in the NOeG blog “Der ökonomische Blick” in Die Presse. She also shared insights from her research in the podcast “Zukunft MI(N)Tgestalten”. Her findings suggest that even a simple information intervention about STEM careers can increase parents’ willingness to invest in their children’s interest in STEM.

Philipp Poyntner, Senior Scientist at our Department, has received the Transfer & Innovation Grant (TIG) from the Universität Salzburg for a project on Space Economics. Space activities are rapidly evolving—from rare, government-led missions to frequent commercial launches, routine satellite deployments, and long-term ambitions such as crewed missions to Mars. Economics offers a rich toolkit to study these developments: from identifying causal effects in high-frequency data, to analysing principal–agent problems under limited enforcement, to translating insights across literatures into policy and practice. This project aims to explore how different strands of economic research can contribute to addressing key technical and policy challenges in the space domain. 
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