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joelvdweele.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Psychology (University of Amsterdam). Works on inequality, fairness, motivated reasoning using experiments, surveys, game theory. https://www.joelvanderweele.eu/
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"Voters Like Climate Policies More Than You Think". New policy piece for EconPol Forum based on recent research findings www.ifo.de/en/econpol/p... Key messages: 1️⃣ Voters are willing to make sacrifices for climate change, and they endorse costly climate policies #EconSky #ClimateChange 1/3

Excited about our new working paper "Giving as a self-control problem". We look at information avoidance as an emotion regulation strategy in charitable giving decisions. We find evidence for both strategic avoidance and strategic seeking of emotions. Paper: papers.tinbergen.nl/25023.pdf

The new report from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is sobering. Freedom of expression 📉 Quality of elections 📉 Number of countries democratising 📉 Number of countries autocratising 📈 There is nuance, but this conclusion "Level of democracy for the average world citizen is back to 1985" 💔 www.v-dem.net

Europe and Canada, it increasingly looks like that we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build the strongest scientific infrastructure in our history — which, in the middle run, would also increase our economic growth

We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5

Als het aan Trump ligt is het “Make America Stupid Again”. Trump bezuinigt al het VS-talent weg. Laten we deze slimme koppen naar Europa halen, om hier aan onze toekomst te bouwen—bijvoorbeeld voor klimaat, AI en defensie. Vanmiddag stemming over onze motie 👇 fd.nl/samenleving/...

Want to square your contribution to Ukraine? 👇

📣 Exciting postdoc position! Please share! Interested in Organisation Design and running RCTs with organisations? 2 years postdoc in the Market Design department @ZEW, no teaching! jobs.zew.de/jobposting/1...

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... "Welvaart in Europa en de VS is vooral een kwestie van smaak" door @maartenschinkel.bsky.social

Go, Europe!🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order econ.st/3CP3cex

Iedere dag breken onze leiders onze banden met de buitenwereld verder af. Enorm schadelijk voor het Nederlandse belang. Dit kabinet keert ons land naar binnen in een wereld die juist nu vraagt om internationale en Europese samenwerking—ontwikkelingssamenwerking is een kracht.

Oekraïne had nooit de oorlog moeten beginnen, aldus Trump. Als wij Trump niet onze toekomst willen laten bepalen, als wij geen wereld willen waar tirannie vrij spel krijgt maar waar vrede en vrijheid regeren, dan nemen we als Europa nu het heft in eigen handen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

'If in doubt, assume the reader knows nothing. However, never make the mistake of assuming that the reader is stupid. The classic error in journalism is to overestimate what the reader knows and underestimate the reader's intelligence.' www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

Evergreen: Edmund Burke's political insight in one cartoon.

Column: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Twee jaar is antropoloog Bram Kalkman nu fietskoerier. Net als hij zijn bijna al zijn collega’s hoogopgeleid. Wat drijft hen om voor weinig geld in weer en wind te zwoegen? En wat zegt dat over de betekenis van werk in onze tijd?

A friendly reminder that the deadline for our ECBE Conference is in one week (Dec 15). We look forward to seeing your great papers on behavioral economics! Details: sites.google.com/site/ecbecon...

Introducing 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates of Tinbergen Institute! All candidates & their personal websites can be viewed on our website: tinbergen.nl/job-market-c...

#Econsky 📈📉: Before the deadline Feb 11, apply for your PhD with us. Intense coursework, wonderful peers and researchers all around you, and a city that's also ok. berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-programm...

Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Nederlandse politici opgelet!

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1/3 Glad our meta-study on Willful Ignorance is out in Psychological Bulletin 👇(open access). shorturl.at/xADKQ Thanks to Linh Vu, Shaul Shalvi, Margarita Leib and Ivan Soraperra for a great econ-psych cross-collaboration.

📣 Conference alert for #EconSky 📣 We will host the 2nd ifo Conference on Institutional Economics, March 7-8, 2024, in beautiful #Fürth 🙂 Fantastic keynotes by Elliot Ash (ETH Zurich) and Christine Laudenbach (Gothe Uni Frankfurt & SAFE) 🥳 Deadline: Dec 15, 2023 👉🏻 www.ifo.de/en/event/202...