Channelling the liberal arts spirit for my today's lunch talk Pomona College to Pomona College Economics students: "The Behavioral Economics of Individual Agency "

At a time when the amount of data available to researchers is vast, trust in science seems to be declining. Is there a connection between the way data is used and the erosion of trust in science? Prof. Gary Smith discusses in his new book Distrust. bit.ly/3zlObLI

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Prof. Fernando Lozano offers solutions to Inland Empire warehousing problem. sbsun.com/2023/03/31/inl…

New paper out on the perennial question of *whether competition crowds moral behavior in or out* Being part of this meta-analysis of crowd-sourced experiments was great fun and a model of P2P cooperation. Very happy to see this published in PNASNews

Ofc, an interesting follow-up question is where does this *covenantal reasoning* come from? mpetersenc and I argue that constitutional political economy needs *a theory of moral learning* tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In light of the #AffirmativeAction ruling, here is my and Johnny Huynh’s new work finding a lesser-known race-blind policy - an admission advantage for local applicants - produced large college enrollment gains for underrepresented minority students. 👇🏼 Paper soon. #EconTwitter

Gordon Elnagar ‘24 presenting his research on demographic shift and voting on Georgia at the Western Economic Association meetings.

Yosi Mayoral ‘23 (PPA-Econ) presenting her research on the COVID pandemic and immigrant households at the Western Economic Meetings Western Economic Association International

It’s unsurprising that Asians do worse in college admissions than whites. What is surprising is that South Asians fare worse than East/Southeast Asians in admissions, especially given Maria Zhu’s finding that South Asians are more likely to end up in leadership positions:

Economics Prof. Gary Smith Gary Smith writes in MarketWatch about how venture capital is suffering even as the U.S. stock market is surging. Read: marketwatch.com/story/startups…

New publication by Professor Emiliano Huet-Vaughn. Congratulations!

Weekend read 🥸 new article out in *Constitutional Political Economy* arguing that insights on the evolving and context-dependent nature of preferences pose intricate challenges to the normative foundations of ordoliberalism nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring a Hispanic economist every day. Meet @Karlapce, Visiting Assistant Prof. Pomona College Economics 📚🌟 Her research focuses on immigration and gender differences in wealth accumulation. Let more about her research at karlapcordova.com.

Kyle Moore, EPI; Fernando Lozano, Pomona College; Nancy Fine, Rutgers U. discuss "Fighting Inequality" during PERI's Low-Wage Workers Conf. day 3. Join us at bit.ly/Low-wage-worke…… Economic Policy Institute @KKM_Econ, Rutgers University Pomona College Economics

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🚨Call for Abstracts🚨 2nd Workshop “Ordoliberalism: The Next Generation” Topic: “Exploring New Directions in Ordoliberalism and Constitutional Political Economy” Date: July 12-13, 2024 Universität Freiburg, Germany Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2024 Please share!

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