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@martaserragarcia.bsky.social

Behavioral economist, studying information & attention @ UC San Diego

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Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía - AEE SAEe 2025 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 17-19 December DATES TO REMEMBER Submissions begin Deadline for submissions Decisio...

Send us your papers! The 50th "Simposio" of the Spanish Economic Association will take place in Barcelona, December 17-19. Join us! Deadline June 15: asesec.org/simposio-de-...

07.05.2025 05:59 — 👍 29    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Job #AJO29859, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859

02.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science.

Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting

sloan.org/programs/dig...

07.03.2025 00:27 — 👍 79    🔁 69    💬 1    📌 5
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Devin Pope and I are hiring for two RA/predoc/RP positions!

We are typically able to sponsor visas. Please share widely!

www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

25.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

In this new working paper we use a real-effort experiment to study the relationship between self-set goals and expectations, and how they affect performance.
Do goals affect or reflect expectations? Do goals affect performance, conditional on expectations?

05.02.2025 22:28 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Home | HCXAI ACM CHI 2025 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI). May 2025 (Yokohama, Japan & hybrid). Submit your Paper (EasyChair)

The CHI Human-Centered Explainable AI Workshop is back!

Paper submissions: Feb 20

hcxai.jimdosite.com

05.02.2025 23:34 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
The Chicago School in Experimental Economics 2025 | John List

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...

05.02.2025 16:31 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Berlin 2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are delighted to announce that the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will once again take place from June 17 to 25, 2025, at the Max Planck Institute for Human D…

Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality, Berlin, 2025

www.decisionsciencenews.com?p=7210

05.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Please do submit your applications to the 2nd EER summer school!! 👇🚀

Looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Rome!! ☀️☀️

#experimental #behavioural #economics

06.12.2024 12:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Symposium at Oxford – 75 years of Nash equilibrium
Join us for a symposium at Oxford to celebrate 75 years of Nash equilibrium. For details, please see
sites.google.com/view/nash75
Attendance is free, but places are limited. To register, please contact Bary Pradelski (bary.pradelski@mfo.ac.uk)

29.01.2025 16:57 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Hi Everyone!

We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work.

Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...

29.01.2025 18:46 — 👍 16    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2
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What AI Means for Growth and Jobs | by Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel - Project Syndicate Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.

"To enhance the employment potential of AI and minimize its negative effects on workers, broad-based access to high-quality education, together with training programs and active labor-market policies, will be crucial." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

16.01.2025 06:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, following on that last thread, here are my suggestions about how to be a good mentor (though this is still a work in progress!)

(And others should feel free to add to my list!)

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07.01.2025 22:44 — 👍 55    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 5
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The Curious Culture of Economic Theory An essay collection that insightfully explores the professional culture of contemporary economic theory, highlighting key features of successful economic t

Ran Spiegler has a new book out that I found very entertaining.

It's a collection of essays offering accessible introductions to modern classics of economic theory: global games, Bayesian persuasion, hold-up problem, competitive screening, ...

And it's FREE!
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

03.01.2025 01:17 — 👍 79    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 5

I'm off to San Francisco for #ASSA2025. Presenting interesting research? Working on something cool? Have thoughts on the direction of econ/policy? Stop me in the halls, or feel free to reach out. #EconSky

02.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 59    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0

Great list! Could you add me too? Happy new year!

01.01.2025 09:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Erica Chuang was one of the IPA data geniuses & is on the job market! She's finishing up at UCSD in environmental& natural resource econ. Her JMP looks at how to design policies when private firms own resources that are good for the environment, like forests.
www.ericakchuang.com

#econsky #econjmp

19.12.2024 21:35 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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ConGrats to amazing Antonio Penta who will start as an editor @reveconstudies.bsky.social January 1 (replacing Galeotti, who has completed his term):
www.antoniopenta.eu

19.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

„bumble along … and feel perfectly fine”

15.12.2024 13:24 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

24.11.2024 13:54 — 👍 1218    🔁 457    💬 57    📌 80

5 days to go!

11.12.2024 13:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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4 weeks to the deadline for the EER special issue for Nora. It will be tremendous. We have some really excellent papers form some of the best authors in our field. And no upper limit on quantity. Consider sending us your best work that fits to Nora’s interests. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

17.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

We recently secured a senior line @pittecon.bsky.social. Please apply or forward to those who may be interested. We have a fabulous group and would love to explore options for having you as a colleague.

10.12.2024 20:57 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Pitt is hiring an Open Rank position. Please help spread the word and get in touch with any questions. #econsky

10.12.2024 17:01 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for Papers - The Economic Journal special issue: Polarization in Field Experiments - Royal Economic Society The call for papers for The Economic Journal special issue ‘Polarization in Field Experiments’ is now open.

The Economic Journal has a new special issue on Polarization in Field Experiments

If you are working on this topic, consider submitting your work.

Details in the link 👇

res.org.uk/call-for-pap...

04.12.2024 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's exciting to see the first interview requests of my students trickling in, JM season is afoot! And in case you haven't heard, my student Lea Nagel (theory and behavioral/experimental) is amazing!

03.12.2024 09:44 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you are doing experimental economics and need a pool of subjects who are not your typical college students, they would be a fantastic recruiting tool for that as well.

02.12.2024 16:14 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Causal Effects of Income on Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Randomized Field Experiment Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This paper is fascinating. A three-year field experiement in which a 1000 low income Americans get $1000 a month. The tl;dr conclusion is that it basically has zero effect on their political views or participation.

www.nber.org/papers/w33214

02.12.2024 19:09 — 👍 917    🔁 163    💬 52    📌 26

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