Abby Sussman

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

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Challenge your assumptions on how the behavioral sciences can be applied across multiple contexts as you hear from preeminent researchers and experts. Swipe through to discover the authors joining us for our 2025 online conference.

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Behavioral insights are only as useful as their real-world application. Explore with Jennifer Kurkowski (People Analytics, Google), Vickie Pisowicz (Eyes to See), and Jessie Wisdom (Adobe). Moderated by @elizabethlinos.bsky.social (Harvard People Lab).

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#ICYMI: Congratulations to Kevin Volpp (@pennchibe.bsky.social), recipient of the 2025 @americanheart.bsky.social Edward S. Cooper Award in recognition of his pioneering work in health incentives & behavioral economics to improve health outcomes! @pennmedicine.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3f37wwyk

Scaling up and ensuring sustained policy change are persistent challenges. At our 2025 online conference, hear perspectives from Emily Cardon, Louise Connell, Stefano DellaVigna, and Dean Fixsen. Moderated by Scott Young.

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The US federal govt. has dramatically reduced its support for foreign aid. At our 2025 conference, hear from fmr USAID Chief Economist Dean Karlan and writer @nickkristof.bsky.social (@nytimes.com), and explore innovative approaches that operate outside fed. programs.
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BSPA Online Conference 2025 | LinkedIn Join us for our annual online conference on May 1-2, 2025! This year's theme is "Applying Behavioral Science in Your Own Backyard." We’ll explore opportunities for collaboration and advancing the pub...

Join us for our annual online conference! Learn how to apply behavioral science in your own backyard, explore ways to collaborate, and hear from Nick Kristof, Dean Karlan, Kevin Volpp, and many more. Register today!

It is insane how bad universities have been at messaging their value to US: our hegemony in high education create both an amazing export (higher education itself that people all over the world demand at retail price) but also fuel our tech dominance. Universities truly do make America great.

#100DaysOfWriting Welcome to the #100DaysOfWriting Challenge! The purpose of this academic writing collective is to provide a virtual space for academic writers to support each other and to provide tools for creating...

(Academic) Community is more important than ever. If you're looking for an inclusive, diverse, & supportive academic group, consider joining #100DaysOfWriting. We've served over 1,000 ppl around the world (~150 active members now). You can register here: www.tinyurl.com/100DaysRound15

Thanks for promoting, @bskybymidge.bsky.social! Very excited about this lineup!!

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Adding @bskybymidge.bsky.social to my list too!

@caseynewton.bsky.social This should be discussed on your podcast. Grok instructed not to tattle on Musk and Trump
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Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

Absolutely correct.

Call your House representatives. Write them actual letters. Show up at their local offices. Flood the zone.

Demand they draw the line while they still can.

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

W-T-A-(and I cannot stress this enough)-F....

Looking forward to co-organizing one of BFI's most popular conferences again! And this year, we were super duper lucky to nab @seema.bsky.social as the keynote speaker :)

More info: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
Submission deadline: Feb 28

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Freshman enrollment up this fall; data error led to miscount Freshman enrollment did not decline this fall, as previously reported in the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s annual enrollment report in October. On Monday, the NSC acknowledged that ...

Those headline stories about the decline of college enrollment this year were based on a typo.

It actually went up. Seven percent.

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Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics

Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)

Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries? Abstract. In 2022, Democrats spent $53 million on ads helping far-right candidates win Republican primaries. Paying for ads that support far-right candidat

Here's a link to our paper, which was recently accepted at JCR! academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...

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