@ddpace.bsky.social
Behavioral economist at LMU Munich - opinions are mine. Working on: cognitive economics and climate change. https://sites.google.com/view/davidedpace
If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.
The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.
This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.
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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
If you are a scientist in any field or just plainly a curious human being do subscribe to Andrea's substack. It contains and will keep delivering the most unexpected "oh! I didn't know that! Makes sense!" moments in your near future.
06.06.2025 11:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0How do social interactions foster or hamper delusional beliefs?
This is the most pressing open question in the literature on motivated beliefs.
Great to see progress being made 👇
4️⃣ Both the public and experts are too pessimistic
about voters’ support for climate policies
5️⃣ Effective communication of the climate policy
details is key
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2️⃣ Voters support green investments even when
the investments are funded via carbon taxes
3️⃣ A carbon tax plus a Climate Premium is another
promising policy. The Climate Premium is
an upfront transfer to all households
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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
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So sorry, Valeria... Crazy times...
21.04.2025 08:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract: The open science movement has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans being central to ongoing debates. Combining observational evidence on trends in adoption with survey data from 519 re-searchers, this study examines the adoption of pre-registration (potentially but not necessarily including pre-analysis plans) in experimental economics. Pooling statistics from 19 leading journals published between 2017 and 2023, we observe that the number of papers containing a pre-registration grew from seven per year to 190 per year. Our findings indicate that pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics, with two-thirds of respondents expressing favorable views and 86% having pre-registered at least one study. However, opinions are divided on the scope and comprehensiveness of pre-registration, highlighting the need for clearer guidelines. Researchers assign a credibility premium to pre-registered tests, although the exact channels remain to be understood. Our results suggest growing support for open science practices among experimental economists, with demand for professional associations to guide researchers and reviewers on best practices for pre-registration and other open science initiatives.
"pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics"
New preprint by Taisuke Imai et al.: osf.io/preprints/me...
Why creating a fund only targeted to current US-based researchers? There are other (turning) illiberal countries with top scientists. Besides, competition is also about retaining talent.
It is a great moment to invest more on research, but what are the advantages of the geographical constraint?
🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested!
#EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert
Congrats!!
17.03.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last few hours to square your contribution to 🇺🇦!
09.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
we are looking for an Associate Professor (tenure track) in applied Economics, pls share: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
06.03.2025 08:55 — 👍 11 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€.
The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€.
An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on.
yourcontributionsquared.eu
If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
If it’s a trade war Trump wants, consumers in Mexico, Canada, Europe, and beyond should unite to ensure that Musk and his fellow oligarchs feel the cost
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...
Come join us for the 'Gender in Society' Summer Course at the @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
This was a lot of fun to teach last year, very much looking forward to doing this again 🤩
A thread worth reading
16.02.2025 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Don’t know how to express this forcefully enough but sometimes dudes have to say something for people to listen ➡️ Women and girls belong in science and we’re all better off bc of our trans and cis female mentors, colleagues, and students 🙏
11.02.2025 08:28 — 👍 52 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Wow! Thank you for sharing. Have you tested if the AI is equally helpful if the instructions are not machine readable? And what if the instructions and the comprehension cannot be visualized at the same time?
11.02.2025 03:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another thing that might help is that the marginal cost of running AIs with advanced reasoning features are far from zero. Moreover, there are still tasks that are very costly for the machines to solve, but trivial from human. These two features should at least buy us some time.
11.02.2025 02:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Going back to the lab seems unsatisfactory to me. If people use more and more AI tools to make decisions in real life, what can we learn about their behavior outside the lab if we don't allow them to use these tools?
11.02.2025 02:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language.
LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing.
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youtu.be/NujyGZSA7Hg
The "uncut, bloopers included" versions of these papers are in pre-production! Great initiative!!
09.02.2025 12:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
