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What role do open data play in the Czech healthcare system? What have we learned over the past year about the right to information and public health? Jakub Steiner will participate in a panel discussion at the [PANDEMIC] Open Data Expo fair, together with four other experts, where such questions will be answered.

Read more: Jakub Steiner Will Join a Panel Discussion at [PANDEMIC] Open Data Expo

CERGE-EI hosted a second webinar last Thursday, on February 25, which was aimed at familiarizing prospective students with financial support options and overall student life at CERGE-EI.

Read more: Watch our "Webinar II: Student Life at CERGE-EI" on YouTube

With profound regret, CERGE-EI announces that Prof. Jaromír Vepřek, one of the co-founders of the present-day Economics Institute and long-term researcher and valued member of the scientific community of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, passed away on February 22, 2021, aged nearly 94 years. He is best known among fellow scientists for his work on application of systems analysis methods in the management of health care.

Read more: Economist Prof. Jaromír Vepřek Passed Away

The Jan Kmenta Library newly invites library subscribers to return borrowed books and other items to the drop box that has been installed in front of the library entrance in the foyer of Schebek Palace.

Read more: A New Library Drop Box at the Jan Kmenta Library Entrance

Dejan Kovac and Marin Drlje have co-authored a paper entitled "O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries" that has been accepted to be published by the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Read more: A Study on Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice Published in QJE