Paolo G. Piacquadio

Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes (Forthcoming Article) - We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on pre- venting least-preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most-preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are stable across domains and countries with divergent political traditions. Designing attractive social choice mechanisms is challenging in practice partly because aggre- gation principles that make manipulation diffcult yield outcomes people consider normatively unappealing.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes" by Sandro Ambuehl and B. Douglas Bernheim.

Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

Beautifully written, urgently terrifying.
"In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder...If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread..."

📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢

I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇

We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!

Economics Departmental Seminar - Associate Professor Frikk Nesje Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality

Looking forward to holding the Department Seminar at @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social on Dec 10.

I will present the paper "Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality" (joint with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social). A new version, with many new insights, will be ready soon!

shorturl.at/I58qN

⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰

Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics:
econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ.

cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are hiring tenure-track assistant/associate professors in Economics at the University of Oslo.

Fields: macro, micro theory, international trade, development

Application deadline: November 30!

More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

The #econjobmarket is not (totally) dead! 3 positions this year to join our amazing team at @crestumr.bsky.social ! This is a great environnent with amazing colleagues and students please consider applying! Feel free to contact any of us if you have questions

Deadline coming up tomorrow! Join us in Heidelberg.

It is finally online the SI of the EER that we guest-edited together with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social, and Jakob Madsen. The full list of papers is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

I very much look forward to presenting this paper next Monday Sept 8th at 5pm Paris time for the NE&EP webinar series.

For registering and/or link, write to normative.econ@gmail.com.

🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek.

See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here
👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Working paper alert!

I generalize discounted utilitarianism to endogenous population settings and avoid most drawbacks of existing welfare criteria.

Read more here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo....

Comments are welcome!

Final reminder to junior researchers to submit a paper for the new award from the Sciences Po Department of Economics honouring the memory of Ghazala Azmat.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#CallForPapers #EconSky

Very happy to see this in print!

Great paper by @brianjabarian.bsky.social and @luca-henkel.bsky.social on automated job interviews.

Is AI better at recruiting?

Based on 70.000+ real job interviews:
- 12% more job offers;
- 18% more hires;
- 17% higher retention...

- and 78% of applicants choose AI if given the choice.

HSG: 2 PhD Positions in Consumer Behavior and Technology (m/f/d) A passion for behavioral science and new technologies. An excellent master's degree (or equivalent) in marketing, psychology, behavioral economics, or a related field. Outstanding English communicatio...

Looking for 2 PhD students to join our lab at the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology @unisg.ch! We study how people interact with AI and automation at the intersection of marketing, psychology, and technology.
Fully-funded positions available. Please share! 🙏

ABSTRACT. A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective probability function (representing the group’s probability assignment). The rule is ‘non-manipulable’ if no group member can manipulate the collective probability for any proposition in the direction of his or her own probability by misrepresenting his or her probability function (‘strategic voting’). We show that, except in trivial cases, no probability aggregation rule satisfying two very mild conditions (non-dictatorship and consensus preservation) is non-manipulable.

Just accepted:

‘The Impossibility of Non-manipulable Probability Aggregation’
– Franz Dietrich & Christian List

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

Our approach makes it possible to reflect the values that people actually hold – and not just those that are easy to calculate. #Economics #Philosophy

Pretty big, right? News item in the comments.

Our article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

AI assessment changes human behavior | PNAS AI is increasingly replacing human decision-makers across domains. AI-based tools have become particularly common in assessment decisions, such as ...

Do we change who we are when #AI is watching?
New paper in @pnas.org: Job applicants emphasize analytical traits and hide intuition when assessed by AI—believing that's what algorithms want.
Result? Companies may hire people good at "performing for algorithms" rather than the best candidates.

Provokerende (ment godt) perspektiv i Frikks og @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social forskning.

For hvordan laver vi bedst økonom-modeller (egentlig også relevant ift. debatten omkring FM's regnemodel).

Læs artiklen Frikk Nesje linkter til for mere information og link til forskningsartiklen.

#dkpol #dkøko

Økonomer: Langsigtede investeringer kan blive mere retfærdige To økonomer har udarbejdet en ny måde at tænke retfærdighed mellem senere og tidligere generationer ind i de langsigtsinvesteringer, vi som samfund laver på bl.a. klimaområdet. Den nye, teoretiske ram...

Hvordan bør vi fordele goder og omkostninger mellem generationer? I artiklen 'Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality', sammen med @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, har vi udviklet en ramme for at forstå og vurdere netop dette spørgsmål. Læs nyheden fra KU.
nyheder.ku.dk/alle_nyheder...

Economists: Long-term investments can become more equitable Two economists have developed a new way of looking at equity between later and earlier generations in the long-term investments we make as a society in areas such as climate change. The new theoretica...

How should we distribute benefits and costs between generations? In the paper 'Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality', with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, we have created a framework for understanding and assessing this very question. Read the KU news item.
news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Assistant Professor Project title: A life course microsimulation perspective on multi-dimensional well-being for five European countries (WELLSIM) CHANSE "Enhancing well-being for the future"

🚨 We’re hiring! A post-doc opportunity in an international team working on a life course microsimulation modelling of multi-dimensional well-being for five European countries

Apply here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/347427
#EconSky #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #JobAlert #Microsimulation #WellBeing

VoxEU column on our paper on child related inequality is now online: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

@unisg.ch

We start in about 30 minutes!

You can still register and get the zoom link!!!

Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd at @unisg.ch and online:

PhD minicourse on Minimalistic Market Design

with @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social !!!

Pls share and register for online or onsite attendance!

#econsky #econ #academicsky #marketdesign

Please join us for the 4-lecture mini course I will give on minimalist market design at University of StGallen this week. The course is open to all and available both in person and via zoom. See below for the registration info and the link in the next comment for the course slides.