Sam Hirshman

Excited to announce our amazing lineup of speakers for the 2026 JDM preconference at SPSP!

Conference date: Feb 26th
Location: Chicago
Deadline to apply: Oct 23rd.

Application link: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

cc: @sdellavi.bsky.social, @hirshmansam.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social

The first “removal” (if this stands) of a Federal Reserve Board Governor in the institution’s 112 year history. Totally unprecedented. No due process. A totally authoritarian move.

Job Loss Can Lead to Risky Decision-Making Rather than being more financially cautious after a layoff, many become less so.

Losing a job is intensely stressful, and often has consequences for behavior and mental health. But some of its psychological effects may run counter to expectations.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/job-l... via Booth's @abbysussman.bsky.social

We find men more likely to ask, no difference in outcomes conditional on asking -> better returns for men (in Norway)
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

And it's a bit odd since I think a Jewish Avrohom is more likely to vote for a Republican than a Jewish Abraham.

What conclusion do you draw from the "blue" names? Says to me that there are not many Orthodox Jews in America and they only live in a few places, but not much about polarization.

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of it as if 1 is yes, trouble; if 1 is no, that's what I expect; if 1 is the complicated option, then it should be explained elsewhere (though should does not always mean is)

The aspredicted form for preregistration

Don't know why it is a word doc and that is weird, but I would bet is based on aspredicted form where Q1 is plausibly not very informative and Q2 is hypotheses

@fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

"Decisions under risk may be driven by similar psychological mechanisms to decisions under complexity" is definitely a worse title

@fair-cele.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

Our statement on the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist and Columbia University student protest leader, Mahmoud Khalil:

bsky.app/profile/i4re...

Could be this

Comes in handy to have a record. I don't go back and update it unless I visit a place again, so there may be some defunct shops. Hope it's helpful!

Voodoo child was good
voodoochildcafe.com

Have a few other places on a coffee map here samhirshman.com/docs/interests

It could extend to those kinds of risks since we think it's related to risk seeking in losses, but most of what we study are things like gambling and lottery tickets which tend to be more negative. I'd also be looking for more work on why we saw so many new businesses during the pandemic.

New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking.

Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

Started using this on something this morning, and it is amazing. Thanks!

Getting ready for hannukkah?

You must love that I'm in Europe

bsky.app/profile/hirs...

We have new paper showing how changing the risk for regrade decisions affects the gender gap in asking using data from Norway that can identify differences in asking specifically.

ZP6 Special - 1Zpresso Manual Coffee Manual Experience the best pour-over grinder on the market with 1Zpresso ZP6 Special. Perfect your pour-over with its exceptional grind consistency.

1zpresso zp6. I had a passable electric grinder in the office and had intended this just for travel, but I liked using it so much it became every day. Had harios hand grinders before and the zp6 is just a joy to use
1zpresso.coffee/zp6/

I meant the niche. Haven't used the mignon.

I do pourover in the office and got a hand grinder. Are you going espresso in the office?

It's good, though I found that it produces more fines than I would like ideally for pourovers.

Black and white portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a dark blouse and hair styled in an updo.

A vintage black and white photo of a young girl standing in front of a wooden fence with lush foliage in the background. She is wearing a dress and a bow in their hair, and is smiling at the camera.

1 December 1942 | A transport of 532 Norwegian Jews deported from Bergen arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors sent 186 men to be registered in the camp. The remaining 346 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.

How did changing the riskiness of a choice impact the gender gap in willingness to ask? My new paper in MS with Alex Willén finds gender gaps widen, which benefits men more. The gap is likely driven by gender differences in beliefs.

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10....

I had a great time writing this paper. Alex (www.alexanderwillen.com) is a fantastic economist and coauthor. His core labor work is great, and you should check it out! I also fulfilled a goal of using the fun Norwegian data (hoping to do it again).

Our results shed light on the way that gender differences in economic primitives can interact with the policy environment to produce disparate impacts. There is much more to do on why some people take up opportunities and others do not.

1) We show direct evidence of learning from prior regrade outcomes
2) Using heterogeneity in the original grade, we show regrade requests follow the changes in expected value
3) Using an online experiment, we show gender differences in directly elicited beliefs matter most