Final Activity Report Summary - ENABLE (European Network for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics)
The summer schools and symposia further enabled the young researchers to access and get training from the best researchers, both economists and psychologists, in this new field, in addition to their participation in high-quality training and research at the different nodes. The participation in PhD-courses, visits to other nodes and skills training, such as experimentation, language and media, were important as research training methodologies. The impressive output of the young researchers, the workshops they organised among themselves and the quality of the institutions that hired them after their employment with ENABLE, including numerous European institutions and some top universities in the United States, could be seen as indicators of success. The network that was established through ENABLE, including Harvard and Princeton, was clearly very helpful for the researchers career opportunities.
Through the imprint made by its output, its Nachwuchs of many well-trained young researchers and the realisation of a sizeable research network, ENABLE made a strong contribution to the establishment of behavioural economics as a research field in Europe and beyond. For instance it was, by the time of the project completion, one of the largest fields among the PhD students in Stockholm and was incorporated as a separate track in the PhD program of the Tinbergen Institute.