Links Friday 13th 2015

Blog is coming towards one million hits so suggestions for wildly disproportionate celebrations welcome. 

1. Conference on the Irish economy on February 25th.

2.  Eating People Is Wrong, & Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future:  New book by UCD's brilliant Cormac O'Grada

3. Paper on personality and unemployment by centre faculty featured in Time Magazine 

4. Is giving people information over-rated? (via @jameslkimell on twitter) 

5. New Social Science and Medicine paper "Sick of our loans: Student borrowing and the mental health of young adults in the United States"

6. NBER paper: Raj Chetty on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy 

7. RAND Behavioural Finance conference page treasure trove for people interested in behavioural finance, regulation etc

8. What determines pre-retirement cash-outs? 

9. Household finances and the Big-Five personality traits.

10. Our MSc in Behavioural Science now taking applications.

11. How Werner Güth's ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior