For those in the neighborhood, @willhpyle.bsky.social will give the next talk in the 2025/26 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Hillcrest 103. The topic is Russian Public Opinion, the War in Ukraine, and the Lingering Effects of the Soviet Collapse.
Congratulations indeed!
From forthcoming EJ Special Issue on Polarization in Field Experiments: ‘Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms’ by Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf062 @andrearobbett.bsky.social
@phminvt.bsky.social @albertobisin.bsky.social
Fortunate to collaborate with so many wonderful smart economists …
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data" by Xiaogeng Xu, Satu Metsälampi, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Fascinating, topical, paper by Andrea and co-authors on partisanship and hiring.
Well done, Kristina.
@middecon.bsky.social's Kristina Sargent has had a very busy fall! Read her newest, on migration and colonial occupation in Economic History of Developing Regions. Congratulations, Kristina!
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Thanks. Yes, but even I would draw the line at mixing Whoppers and löyly.
Absolutely delighted to have renewed my Visiting Distinguished Professor contract @aalto.fi School of Business.
To quote Sally Field's Oscar speech, "I can't deny the fact that you like me!" Or that I like you back.
Well done, Will and Kristina!
Well done, Germán and Zara!
Congratulations, @drerinwolcott.bsky.social!
The addition of a new co-author – and former RA – Josh Foster, Ivey, changed everything, and “Auctions for Risk-Averse Non-Profits" is now conditionally accepted at the Journal of Public Economics which, I note with some gratitude, has been very good to me/us over the last decade or two.
#3. Longtime co-author and friend Jeff Carpenter and I despaired, I think, of ever finishing the final paper in a research program on charity auctions, one that would bring together extensive lab and field data to provide a more complete characterization of both theoretical and empirical results.
It adopts an experimental approach to infer what both experts – a large panel of philosophers – and the public adopt as “building blocks” in their understandings of exploitation, with sometimes surprising results.
#2. “What Exploitation Is” was co-authored with Ben Ferguson, a philosopher at Warwick, and two other economists, Roberto Veneziani at Queen Mary, and David Ronayne at ESMT Berlin, and should appear soon in the American Journal of Political Science (!)
We all “know” that relative status matters, but is there causal evidence of whom we compare ourselves to, and how it matters? This paper, an experiment conducted in co-operation with Statistics Finland, provides just this evidence.
Look for sequels soon!
It has now undergoing final checks at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and it embodies the hard work of a wonderful and diverse team: Topi Miettinen at Hanken, Kaisa Kotakorpi at Tampere, Michael Kirchler at Innsbruck, Satu Metsälampi at Turku and Xiaogeng Xu, then of Hanken.
#1. I am perhaps most pleased about “Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data,” which has been several years, and many presentations and drafts, in the making.
I’ll share more about the papers themselves soon, but I just wanted to celebrate with three quite different “teams,” and thank three quite different journals, now ...
What a start to summer! An unexpected “health shock” has left me on the sidelines for a couple of weeks – and in the hospital for one of them – but on either side of this, news of three conditional acceptances, which is as productive as I have ever been!
More from colleagues Raphaelle and Akhil on the economic consequences of wilddfires on @marketplace.org. Well done!
I don't re-post a lot of articles, but this one deserves wide circulation ...
Well done, @akhilrao.bsky.social!
There is a lot of brainpower in Warner Hall ...
Delighted for colleagues Raphaelle and Akhil to see their fascinating work featured in @nytimes.com.
Big congratulations to @middecon faculty member Erick Gong, who was just promoted to full professor!
Bravo, Erick!
