Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)

[research] Watch this presentation of IAST Research Team: Family, Demography and Health

Research Team: Family, Demography and Health The "Family, Demography, and Health" (FDH) research team is dedicated to unravelling the complex interconnections between family relationships, human life hi...

[podcast] Listen to this episode on the enduring legacies of colonialism on global economic inequalities, the climate crisis, and the digital space with experts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen and Prof Jordanna Matlon.

Crossing Channels - Who pays the price of colonialism today? In this episode, Rory Cellan-Jones discusses the enduring legacies of colonialism on global economic inequalities, the climate crisis, and the digital space ...

[event] We are welcoming Harvey Whitehouse to deliver a Distinguished Lecture to the IAST/TSE community on Wednesday 5th June. Harvey Whitehouse is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, who spent four decades studying some of the most extreme groups on earth.

[podcast] "What’s the point of a protest?" Listen to this episode with Lauren Wilcox, Felix Dwinger and Giacomo Lemoli
https://youtu.be/4O5BO7p5y5c?si=6Ex733-p_ijwWzxj

What’s the point of a protest? Dr Lauren Wilcox, Dr Felix Dwinger, and Dr Giacomo Lemoli talk to Rory Cellan-Jones about why the world is protesting so much, how protesting has changed ove...

[book] Read A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism, written by Jordanna Matlon, published in Cornell University Press https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762932/a-man-among-other-men/

Hommage au primatologue Frans de Waal, chronique d'Hugo Clement sur France Inter

Hommage au primatologue Frans de Waal Le scientifique néerlandais Frans de Waal s'est éteint en mars dernier.

[RIP] It is with sadness that we learn of the death of Frans de Waal. It was an honnor to welcome him, ten years ago for a distinguished lecture.

La mort de Frans de Waal, le primatologue qui voulait remettre « sapiens » à sa place Chercheur respecté et communicateur hors pair, l’auteur de « Sommes-nous trop bêtes pour comprendre l’intelligence des animaux ? » est mort le 14 mars, à 75 ans.

📄🌎 Ingar K. Haaland is visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) in the south of France today to present his project "Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI" (joint with Felix Chopra University of Copenhagen)!

Find their working paper here: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/conducting-qualitative-interviews-ai

Abstract: Qualitative interviews are one of the fundamental tools of empirical social science research and give individuals the opportunity to explain how they understand and interpret the world, allowing researchers to capture detailed and nuanced insights into complex phenomena. However, qualitative interviews are seldom used in economics and other disciplines inclined toward quantitative data analysis, likely due to concerns about limited scalability, high costs, and low generalizability. In this paper, we introduce an AI-assisted method to conduct semi-structured interviews. This approach retains the depth of traditional qualitative research while enabling large-scale, cost-effective data collection suitable for quantitative analysis. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach through a large-scale data collection to understand the stock market participation puzzle. Our 395 interviews allow for quantitative analysis that we demonstrate yields richer and more robust conclusions compared to qualitative interviews with traditional sample sizes as well as to survey responses to a single open-ended question. We also demonstrate high interviewee satisfaction with the AI-assisted interviews. In fact, a majority of respondents indicate a strict preference for AI-assisted interviews over human-led interviews. Our novel AI-assisted approach bridges the divide between qualitative and quantitative data analysis and substantially lowers the barriers and costs of conducting qualitative interviews at scale.

[podcast] Women's Day! Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace? 👉

Crossing Channels - Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace? This episode asks why are women disadvantaged in the workplace?Experts explore why women are underrepresented in certain professions. Why is the motherhood w...

[podcast] new episode: Can economic growth and sustainability coexist? with Matthew Agarwala, Stefan Lamp and Alessio Terzi

Crossing Channels - Can economic growth and sustainability coexist? Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Matthew Agarwala, Stefan Lamp and Alessio Terzi about the trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection, the poli...

[visitor] We are exciting to welcome Lait AL-SHAWAF (University of Colorado) from January 24th to June 30, 2024.
To know more about his research let's visit his webpage :

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[podcast] How can universal basic infrastructure support growth?our experts answer👉

Crossing Channels - How can universal basic infrastructure support growth? Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Jean-Paul Azam (IAST), Diane Coyle and Andy Westwood (Bennett Institute) about the potential of universal basic income to tackle r...