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The always wonderful @casssunstein.bsky.social hits this one out of the park: casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-rapopo...

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Final call for abstracts for AFE2025! @johnlist.bsky.social and I are excited to host another year of the conference at UChicago. Please submit your abstracts here: fs2.formsite.com/UChicagoEcon... Deadline: May 9th Keynotes: Bursztyn (UChicago), Cullen (HBS), and Kremer (UChicago) #econsky

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Earlier I posted on how to estimate marginal values with surveys. I received several DMs asking for advice on how to estimate preferences, beliefs, or constraints for sensitive issues using surveys. I wrote about one approach in 2001 in the AER, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed...

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Happy Easter everyone! I hope your day is filled with Easter egg hunts, love, and happiness. For our Easter weekend, @drdanasuskind.bsky.social and I surprised my daughter, #GretaList, at the half-marathon she ran in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Survey research in economics has been gaining momentum. One key criticism that will arise is that stated preferences do not always map onto revealed preferences (hypothetical bias). CVM grappled with this issue decades ago, finding supportive results.

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Arguments to cut budget at HeadStart because of fadeout effects has it backwards: while the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early ed programs, our work suggests that fade-out is a key rational for providing early education to all children. ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed...

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Will That Idea Scale? Ask ChatGPT! That is the title of a lecture I will give next week. Slides are here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura... The idea is to leverage AI in the scaling process, in particular in creating policy-based evidence. The slides teach how to create Option C ideas using AI.

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"The world is imperfect because we haven't used science in policy-making. And if we add science to it, we have a chance to make an imperfect world a little bit more perfect." 👏🏾 @johnlist.blue.sky.social #AWayForeward 🧪

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This was a productive episode to do since I remain with the thought that the most important area of science we can be engaged in today is the science of scaling, or the science of using science.

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Survey experiments to measure preferences seem to be all the rage these days within economics. Since the analyst ultimately cares about actions rather than measuring wishes, hopes, aspirations or intentions, we should take care to ensure stated preferences map into revealed preferences.

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I have come to the Twainian conclusion that in today's world, all you need is misinformation and confidence, then success is ensured. I was just on a panel to combat that type of thinking.

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Traffic stops are one of the most common civilian and police interactions. Does race influence such interactions? Our new paper published in @science.org using a rideshare data set shows that there is considerable racial bias. Paper can be downloaded here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The Excellence Gap. That is the topic of a new study that we just published in @nature.com. You can download for free here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

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I finally have a publication date for my new Experimental Economics textbook: December 12. Equally as important, I am proud to have negotiated a low price for the book: $38.10...for a nearly 800 page book! You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Experimental...

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Research by Cuna et al finds a robust positive correlation between mothers’ risk and ambiguity aversion and their investment in their 0-6 year old children, which then leads to higher cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the children: buff.ly/yB3FtTM HT @johnlist.bsky.social

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New Paper Alert Our new field experiment explores the inter-relationship between risk and ambiguity preferences of mothers, their early childhood investments, and their children's outcomes. Available for free download: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

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What happens after the Taliban leave? That is the title of our new paper, which pairs a field experiment with a field survey among citizens in Pakistan to examine how exposure to violence affects general trust, subjective well-being, and confidence in institutions. ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

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Get an impression of the atmosphere at our workshop with this beautiful video from the 2024 edition! Featuring some really cool statements by @johnlist.bsky.social, @susannaloeb.bsky.social, @econmill.bsky.social, @christinafelfe.bsky.social & many more😊🙏 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xu8...

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The pen is magical in that it can sometimes allow us to live life twice. That is exactly what happened when I revisited my very first field experiment that I conducted for scientific purposes. I have revised it (lightly) and just made it a formal working paper: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed...

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My apologies. I understand that someone is using this fake account pretending to be me in DMs:

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This week I will be giving a lecture to young experimentalists who are interested in publishing. I will provide some tips for doing better field experiments and advice on publishing. The slides will draw from my recent AFE keynote: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

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Within academia, the job market is particularly difficult this year. A dearth of interviews and jobs. The exact same thing happened when I went on the job market years ago: 150 applications, 1 interview! Back then I wondered about the implications. So, what did I do? I wrote a paper!

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Time is running out to apply to the Chicago School in Experimental Economics (CSEE) 2025! The first school will take place at the University of Bonn, September 7-11, and the second school will take place at the University of Chicago, September 13-17.

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What is the value of a null? How can we make our results more reliable, replicable, and transparent? These are some of the issues we take on this week in my course. I lectured on these topics at the AEA meetings and the slides are here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

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An interviewer just asked: where is behavioral economics going? I outlined 3 areas, one of them being leveraging organizations to test and advance our science. The economics are aligned perfectly. For those interested, my slides from the AEA meetings on this topic: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

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I just finished a scaling panel. My main thesis was that we need to move scaling from a feature of economic systems to a distinct object of study. This can happen through Option C Thinking, as I discuss in my recent Nature study ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

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Our new study was just published in Nature! In Michigan, we find a large and persistent racial excellence gap over time. Socio-economic status explains one-third of the racial disparity in top academic achievement while school factors only explain about 1/10th. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I have noticed that the right side of an argument does not always win. The relative value of time of each person plays an invaluable role. Implication: avoid debates/arguments with someone who has a zero value of time.

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New Paper Alert The standard approach in experimental economics is to use a between-subject design. Within-subject (WS) designs are a significant departure yet provide richer information and greater experimental power. This study clarifies the new identification assumptions of WS designs.

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Our next Chicago School in Experimental Economics summer programs are coming! One will take place at the University of Bonn on September 7-11, and the other will take place at the University of Chicago on September 13-17. For more details please see here: voices.uchicago.edu/jlist/the-ch...

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On a call this morning about DEI. The group wondered about the science around current equal employment opportunity regulations. I noted that one aspect we need to be aware of is the policy backfiring. This is exactly what happened in our natural field experiment: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

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The @nberpubs.bsky.social just published our new study that explores different channels of discrimination in the @mlb.com draft. www.nber.org/papers/w33391 We find that customer preferences influence the drafting of players at the top of the draft—those likely to gain immediate public attention.

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Saw this posted in another forum with massive agreement. My response: if this is true, then you are in the wrong job.

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