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sweiwang.bsky.social
behavioral/experimental economics, CASBS Fellow 2024-2025, immigrant https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/stephanie-wang mostly films, occasionally brains, games, and CCSC (Chinese Culinary Superiority Complex)
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I wrote a blog post on how a piece of pure mathematics - the development of the landscape function in PDE - played a part in realizing noticeable savings in household energy bills due to improved LED lighting technology: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/c...

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Occasional reminder of differences PRE German partition. See (pdf) 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social

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I have fond memories of working at IZA the summer before grad school. I got to attend my first ever conference (IZA Annual Migration Meeting). conference.iza.org/conference_f... I found a fascination with experimental economics. Here's to all those walks along the Rhein.

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It’s always fun to meet an academic grandparent (Roger Noll, @casbsstanford.bsky.social Fellow 83-84, advisor to Tom Palfrey, @casbsstanford.bsky.social Fellow 86-87)

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New findings @nature.com by CASBS fellow @decelles.bsky.social & coauthors Multiple experiments suggest a two-point rating/evaluation scale reduces racial discrimination by focusing on good or bad performance, thus reducing personal beliefs in customer assessments ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I became an US citizen at the JFK Presidential Library after listening to a Holocaust survivor recount his journey. Beautiful space.

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Anna Dreber regaled us with her adventures in meta-science with @cfcamerer.bsky.social and pointed to the future of using decision markets to select which replications to www.nature.com/articles/s41... @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social #cfcfc

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foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around. Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

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FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

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Not for nothing that the beaver is the MIT and CalTech mascot.

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Your next Hinge or Tinder date could have a history of sexual assault, but the company behind these dating apps isn’t telling you that. What our investigation found, with @pulitzercenter: themarkup.org/investigatio...

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And her amazing feature film debut, Salaam Bombay! Criterion Channel carries her earlier documentary work which is also well worth checking out.

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Sandy was brilliant--empirically oriented but saw the big picture. Incisive. Curious. His work shaped research on social policy, education, and inequality, among other fields. More impressive was his kindness. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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GovWayBack. govwayback.com

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Fascinating new paper uncovers a causal link between years of schooling and dementia risk later in life, using a compulsary school reform in the UK More schooling also reduces the link between genetic risk and observed risk! www.nber.org/system/files...

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What happens when the touchdowns stop? Annamaria Lusardi discusses work with @cfcamerer.bsky.social on bankruptcy rates among NFL players, new projects with the NBA and WNBA, and her indefatigable advocacy for financial literacy. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... #cfcfc

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Such a great idea! Also looking forward to the paper(s) with insights from the survey results. #econsky

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At a panel discussion celebrating @cfcamerer.bsky.social ’s achievements, Tom Palfrey, @katymilkman.bsky.social , @rthaler.bsky.social ky.social, and Ernst Fehr shared their perspectives on the future of the field.

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To proceed productively with this debate, perhaps it would be good to define what you would include in "experiments." e.g. the lab is unfortunately not the place to gather beliefs from a representative sample of the population.

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This comment reanalyzes data from Oprea (2014) and draws different conclusions. What should AER do? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 1️⃣ Retract original 2️⃣ Publish whole comment (37 pp) 3️⃣ Publish shorter comment 4️⃣ Do nothing 📊 Show results

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Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are really just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/how-noethers...

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