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Michel Maréchal

@michelmarechal.bsky.social

Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, behavioral economics, field experiments; www.michelmarechal.com

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This new study provides novel evidence of how real-world experiences have a direct impact on public opinion.

👉 To the video: lnkd.in/eFrTtnYD

👉 To the summary: lnkd.in/eHwEg7mw

👉 To the paper: lnkd.in/eqnVCwns

22.02.2026 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand?

With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social

Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

22.02.2026 06:09 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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10.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 992    🔁 194    💬 24    📌 94
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We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

10.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 141    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 19

If you want to stay up-to-date about the newest economics working papers on Artificial Intelligence, then follow @repec-nep-ain.bsky.social

19.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#econ_ra

25.03.2025 19:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join me, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and our team in conducting large-scale policy experiments!

19.03.2025 20:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

#EconSky

07.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 50    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 10
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Experimental validation, which links economic preferences to choices in incentivized elicitations, may fail to produce reliable new measures, from Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv, and Colin Camerer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33520

05.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 4
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Interpreting TSLS Estimators in Information Provision Experiments (Forthcoming Article) - In information provision experiments, researchers often estimate the causal effects of beliefs on actions using two-stage least squares (TSLS). This paper formalizes exclusion ...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Interpreting TSLS Estimators in Information Provision Experiments" by Vod Vilfort and Whitney Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

05.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

27.02.2025 15:30 — 👍 453    🔁 157    💬 22    📌 48
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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution? Cross-Country Evidence | Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics: Vol 3, No 1 Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent ...

Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

02.02.2025 17:00 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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