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The results of our evidence utilization survey sent to policymakers is now available here: oes.gsa.gov/projects/polic… Recent results like this will be discussed tomorrow at #OESat100. RSVP to learn more: oes.gsa.gov/events

Lessons for #Covid19 #Vaccination from Eight Federal Government Direct Communication Evaluations, by @heatherkappes LSE Management, Mattie Toma Harvard University, Rekha Balu Center for Applied Behavioral Science (CABS), and colleagues (forthcoming from #BehavioralScience & Policy) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… via SSRN

Hey #EconTwitter! What do Daron Acemoglu, Angela Duckworth, Katy Milkman, Khoa Vu, Mattie Toma, Mark G. Sheppard, MOTW on SPOTIFY, and Dr. Dana Suskind have in common? They join me in surprising John A. List with a music video about #TheVoltageEffect! Hope it makes you smile!

Are policymakers sensitive to impact? Today on Development Impact I discuss a neat paper by Mattie Toma and @PoliSciBell: blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… where they also show ways to change this.

The deadline to apply for the Data Scientist position at OES is this Sunday, May 8th. Details on how to apply here: oes.gsa.gov/opps/ #job #datascience #dataanalysis

Hi #EconTwitter, I’m crowdsourcing for any RCTs that elicit individuals’ prior beliefs/expectations re the effect of a treatment. Bonus points where datasets are publicly available. Feel free to DM/email. Thanks tons in advance!

Looking forward to our session at #ASSA2023 on evidence use in policymaking! Featuring work by Shaoda Wang & David Yang; myself & Aidan Coville; Stefano DellaVigna, Woojin Kim & Elizabeth Linos; Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer & Liqiu Chen; and Mattie Toma & Elizabeth Bell. Stop by!

IPA's evaluation showed that using bracelets to signal vaccination status resulted in a 13.3 percentage point increase in timely vaccination in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. Now, Anne Karing, Mattie Toma Shana S Warren are leading expansion efforts. This evidence can help #BuildBackImmunity.

✅ #7: Evidence of impact will be presented to decision makers for multiple alternative programs simultaneously, using simple heuristics (Mattie Toma & @DrElizabethBell 2023): drive.google.com/file/d/1qkStG3…

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2024 📢 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! Bonn, briq, July 1–2 More infos: sites.google.com/site/ecbeconfe… #ECBE2024 #EconTwitter

Women are less likely than men to conceal grades that would harm their GPAs, from Christine Exley, @rfisman, Judd Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar nber.org/papers/w32350

How can we effectively communicate evidence to policymakers? In an experiment among US policymakers, complexity is an important barrier. Two decision aids - side-by-side comparisons & unified metrics for multivariate features - increased responsiveness to provided evidence.

Hey #EconTwitter #ScienceTwitter: can you spare 5-10 minutes to participate in our survey to help us think about how air quality shapes conference outcomes? Thx! 📊 socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/ad79… Mattie Toma Santiago Saavedra Social Science Prediction Platform

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2025 📢 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! FAIR, Bergen, June 19-20, 2025 More info: sites.google.com/site/ecbeconfe…… #ECBE2025 #EconTwitter

A friendly reminder that the ECBE application deadline is in one week (Dec 15). Looking forward to seeing your great papers!

Numbers Tell, Words Sell, the new working paper by Michael Thaler, Mattie Toma and Victor Yaneng Wang is now available to read here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/thaler-toma-an…