Congratulations to Cuimin Ba - winner of the VSET-WiET best paper award (paper - t.ly/mTSH). Watch out for her presentation on Dec 1 as part of VSET Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory

CfP! 3rd discrimination/diversity workshop, 21-22 June (virtual) Great line-up of speakers! Sessions on: Gender in Education & Workplace LGBTQ+ Leadership & Role Models Violence against Women & Minorities Race and Ethnicity sites.google.com/view/dnd-works… #EconTwitter UEA Economics

Hi #EconTwitter we are super excited to be organising the 3rd Discrimination/Diversity workshop! Info 👇🏻

🚨 New WP! "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" With Pedro Sant'Anna and Bruno Ferman We conducted an experiment to test for discrimination in forming academic networks on #EconTwitter. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17884 The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification: A Decomposition Aislinn Bohren Penn Arts & Sciences, Daniel Hauser Aalto BIZ ow.ly/EuZq50MP8H3 #CEPR_OE

Congrats to my partner and coauthor @alexoimas for receiving the Sloan Fellowship!! Also super excited to see my coauthor Peter Hull receive this honor! And congratulations to all of the other fellows!

Aislinn (Aislinn Bohren), Alex (@alexoimas), and I have updated our systemic discrimination paper with a bunch of new stuff. Check it out here! dropbox.com/s/xq9pg9paetwr…

Super proud of my student Cuimin Ba Penn for her invitation to join the ReStud tour! Her phenomenal JMP provides a foundation for how individuals can continue to use wrong models. This framework provides key insights into which biases are robust versus likely to self-correct.

It’s also the case that typically to get a raise, one needs an “outside offer,” which often requires being willing and able to move one’s family somewhere else in the country. Hypothesis: this contributes to women getting paid relatively less than men at the same university.

Terrific tips for how to build a network as a young researcher. Thanks Dalia Ghanem for the thoughtful reflection!

So this is @alexoimas‘s very subtle tenure announcement. A huge congrats to my coauthor and husband for being voted tenure at UChicago Booth!! I’m so proud of you!! 🥳🤩🥂

This is a thread about what was right and what was wrong in the recent Senate hearings on AI harms featuring OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as IBM's Christina Montgomery and Gary Marcus (one of the researchers in this field I respect most).

📢Penn LDI & Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics's Race in Health Research on 9/29 ft. Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH, Enrique Schisterman, Rachel Werner, Tyson Brown, @frankalready, Margaret Hicken, @adiezroux, EH, Aislinn Bohren, @jaquelynjahn, @meesposito, @NickGraetz, Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH & @atheendar rb.gy/y8j3x

New paper by Penn Economics Department grad student Zach Weingarten, Brooks Bowden & V. Rodriguez finds lenient grading increases absenteeism amongst high school students at lower end of performance distribution and this exacerbates later achievement gaps nytimes.com/2023/10/18/opi…?

Penn Economics Department has a fantastic group of candidates on the 2023-24 economics job market. See thread 👇 for highlights of their job market papers and our department website for the full list: economics.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/job-m…

Aaaaand I'm back (but lost all my followers). What did I miss?

Why do people sometimes seem to overweigh rare events, and other times ignore them? Why do those w/ access to same information end up with different beliefs about the risk they face? We present model + evidence for how people perceive uncertainty🧵1/9 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Brilliant paper by three young star scholars. A deep exploration of the microfoundations of the memberships theory of inequality.

Come to Turin in December for our fourth Theory Workshop (jointly organized Collegio Carlo Alberto and CEPR). This year with Aislinn Bohren (Aislinn Bohren) and Navin Kartik as keynote speakers. Deadline for submissions: Sep 6th. Last three editions were great!

Professor Rahul Deb is one of the researchers behind a new mathematical model that uses wage distribution to isolate the effects of discrimination in wage gaps. #EconTwitter newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-persistenc…