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ISET is proud to announce that on Thursday, August 13th, 2015 our alumnus Lasha Lanchava defended his Ph.D titled “Essays in Behavioral Economics” at CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute).
His dissertation consisted of three experimental studies including a field work, a laboratory experiment, and an a detailed analysis of a natural experiment.
The dissertation committee was comprised of Peter Katuščák (chair), Michal Bauer, Libor Dušek, Randall K. Filer and Avner Shaked.
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On Monday, 8th of June, Zurab Abramishvili from the CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute) presented his research proposal titled “The Principal Principle: How an Immediate and Random Replacement of School Principals Illuminates Their Value Added; A Case of Education Policy in Georgia”. Mr. Abramishvili is ISET graduate 2010, currently he is doing postdoctoral work at ISET.
He started the presentation with a short overview of the reforms which the government of Georgia implemented in the education system. After he reviewed all chronologically ordered reforms from 2005 to 2007, he presented “school principal elections” in more details and stressed that this project aims to investigate the effects of this unique education policy on the learning outcomes of public school students in Georgia.
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