My gratitude to Antonio Cabrales @Antonio12423742 and Roberto Hernan for organizing such a great workshop in my honor in Madrid at UC3M Economics Thank you to all the attendants for this pure moment of magic where science and friendship come together. Unforgettable!

📢🥁We are very pleased to share our new publication in the EER on selective information acquisition, group identity, and social norms: doi.org/10.1016/j.euro…

Thanks a lot ZBW & Dr. Doreen Siegfried for the interview about Lab^2 and open science. (English option is also available in the page) Lab Square WZB @BSE_Berlin CRC Rationality & Competition

The ESA has announced that, beginning in 2025, its two journals, Experimental Economics and the Journal of the Economic Science Association, will be published by the Cambridge University Press. The two journals will be fully open access starting in 2025. No subscription required!

🚨 New Publication 🚨 Our paper “(Un)Trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas” is out in JEBO 🥳 Timo Goeschl and I investigate whether differences in the information about pledgers’ trustworthiness affect cooperation (🤝). The answer is: it depends!

Submit your best talk to the #ESA2024Helsinki and help us promote experimental and behavioral #EconTwitter in the country of midnight sun & 100k lakes. Submissions open for 10 more days Economic Science Association website!

When scientists are accused of sexual misconduct, their (and their co-authors' and their co-authors' co-authors') citations decline ... ... but not so much in male-dominated fields. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Fascinating paper by Rainer_Widmann & co-authors

Congratulations to Stefanie Baumgartner who has brilliantly defended her PhD thesis today at the universities of Fribourg and Lyon! Excellent work on social norms and trust among refugees and Swiss natives.

🥁Congratulations to the brilliant Elodie Corvaisier (GATE) and Luisa Lorè (Innsbrück) for winning the two Young Researcher ASFEE 2024 Prizes in Grenoble! Elodie, supervised by Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 and myself, is studying the impact of forced displacement on gender-based norms in the Sahel.

People’s beliefs about the economy strongly overreact to household-level income changes, and even adverse health events, in part due to emotion-driven selective recall, from @dtaubinsky, Luigi Butera, Matteo Saccarola, and Chen Lian nber.org/papers/w32664

Scientists employ 7.1% fewer undergraduates in their labs following minimum wage increases. Jennifer Doleac was right after all.

KUDOS to authors for this monumental evaluation of Universal Basic Income. This was so carefully done, with a lot of rigor both in the pre-analysis and amount of data collected. The results from *large* increase in income (40%!!) are...mostly in line with econ 101 predictions.

A new method of identifying good managers finds good managers have roughly twice the impact on team performance as good workers, from Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @_farahsaid, David Deming, and Sonia Bhalotra nber.org/papers/w32699

The Editors' prize for the best paper published in Experimental Economics for the year 2022. is for: J. Matousek, T. Havranek and Z. Irsova. "Individual discount rates: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence" Experimental Economics 25, 318–358 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s10683…

Does Cognitive Reflection Relate to Preferences and Socio-Economic Outcomes? Our new study w/ F. M. Fossen (University of Nevada, Reno) & C. Schroeder (DIW Berlin; Freie Universität ) is now online at JPE Micro website: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… also available SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Super Happy to see this finally out in print! 🎉

🚨💃🏻 PLEASE SHARE💃🏻🚨 Im on the JM 2 move closer 2 family in Lyon- all jobs with direct flight / train to Lyon are interesting. I’m currently working on 3 funded promising projects on AI 🤖 My JMP is under review at QJE has been covered by the Economist etc more info->

Judging ambiguous news stories, participants' confidence determines whether they are willing to pay to receive or avoid extra information. Valentin Guigon Jean-Claude Dreher M.Claire Villeval nature.com/articles/s4427…

IZA has announced it is closing at the end of the year. Very sad news... It was an amazing institution that really made a difference, especially for young researchers. Very sad news for the great local team as well of course. Thank you to everyone who made it what it was.

🚨New Working Paper 🚨 M.Claire Villeval and I investigated whether employees use narratives to influence reviews. The answer is YES: Workers facing a human manager favored narratives portraying failures as resulting more often from bad luck than poor performance. Thread below 👇