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Stefano DellaVigna

@sdellavi.bsky.social

Behavioral economists at UC Berkeley

606 Followers  |  34 Following  |  2 Posts  |  Joined: 04.03.2025  |  1.7361

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Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?

Nobel prize winner George Akerlof (my former colleague) on the firing of statistics officials:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

03.08.2025 15:29 — šŸ‘ 74    šŸ” 31    šŸ’¬ 6    šŸ“Œ 1

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark.
#econsky

02.08.2025 23:53 — šŸ‘ 179    šŸ” 69    šŸ’¬ 3    šŸ“Œ 1
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Forecasting the SSPP Research Results Increasingly, researchers gather forecasts ex ante about the results of their research studies. Ex post, this allows for a comparison with the results to gauge contributions to the literature. But wha...

New short meta-survey on the SSPP: can you predict how well people predict?

Try your hand at it:
socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/0f... @socscipredict.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

10.07.2025 16:35 — šŸ‘ 3    šŸ” 3    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0
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I have both *thoughts* and *feelings* about Trump attacking Harvard. And I want to share them with you.

24.05.2025 12:45 — šŸ‘ 884    šŸ” 247    šŸ’¬ 32    šŸ“Œ 29

This was a really nicely-done survey - strongly encourage people to check it out!

Congrats to the winners!

12.05.2025 16:14 — šŸ‘ 5    šŸ” 1    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

Very excited to share this new working paper, joint with @sdellavi.bsky.social, Guido Imbens, and Woojin Kim
bsky.app/profile/nber...

04.05.2025 02:04 — šŸ‘ 17    šŸ” 3    šŸ’¬ 2    šŸ“Œ 0

Lise is a terrific economist with so many ground breaking contributions... as well as one of the most caring and genuine persons you will find. Very well deserved!

21.03.2025 22:17 — šŸ‘ 11    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 2    šŸ“Œ 0

I finally made the transition from X to here, looking forward to interacting with the econ community here @tedmiguel.bsky.social @evavivalt.bsky.social @rthaler.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social @socscipredict.bsky.social

05.03.2025 18:51 — šŸ‘ 104    šŸ” 14    šŸ’¬ 9    šŸ“Œ 3
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The Social Science Prediction Platform has a new feature: a leaderboard showcasing those who provided the most forecasts or were the most accurate. Forecasters can opt into displaying their name.

You can also see your own rank if logged in. Check it out! @socscipredict.bsky.social

19.02.2025 21:27 — šŸ‘ 7    šŸ” 2    šŸ’¬ 1    šŸ“Œ 0

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