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Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics

I am looking for a post-doc working on either behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Now with # :-) #econjobmarket #jobmarket #postdoc #environmentaleconomics Apply here until 28.11.: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics

I have an open post-doc position, that might be of relevance for some: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Looking forward to this seminar. Such an honor to be in a line -up with so many researchers I admire. I'll be talking about my field experiment on consumer inertia and why attention isn't enough to overcome it!

Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Looking forward to presenting at the @pennchibe.bsky.social research seminar on the 26th of November. Sign up here for all the talks: chibe.upenn.edu/events/

"Kun få supermarkeder ville medvirke i hendes forskning: Da hun så resultaterne, fandt hun ud af hvorfor" Vores studie, i dag i @jyllands-posten.dk eavis.jyllands-posten.dk/p/tillaeg2/1...

Christina Gravert "Can we change travel behaviour with nudging" YouTube video by Bescy Environment

"Can we change travel behaviour with nudging?" recording of my talk at the BeScy Environment event. Thanks for having me and the great conversation with the other speakers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iir...

Societe Generale unveils the composition of its scientific advisory council - Société Générale The purpose of the Scientific Advisory Council is to provide Societe Generale’s General Management with science-based advice on key emerging trends that will influence the Group’s business and activit...

A dream come true to work among this team and help shape sustainable banking and policy! And a novel approach for corporate to assemble such a diverse board: www.societegenerale.com/en/news/pres...

Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure - Environmental and Resource Economics Understanding when and why nudges work is crucial for designing interventions that consistently and reliably change behaviour. This paper explores the relationship between decision-making speed and th...

Re-order nudges only work when people make fast decisions. Carbon labels don't work to change choices - neither with fast nor slow decisions. New evidence on when nudges work in our new publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Gode tilbud – dårligt for klimaet: Supermarkeders mængderabat fører til madspild | Københavns Universitet - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet Et nyt studie afslører en uheldig effekt af supermarkedernes populære “2 for 1”-tilbud: De får os ikke bare til at købe mere – de får os også til at smide mere mad ud.

Obvious? Or highly debated? Supermarket offers cause unintentional overbuying and can lead to food waste. via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Societe Generale unveils the composition of its scientific advisory council - Société Générale The purpose of the Scientific Advisory Council is to provide Societe Generale’s General Management with science-based advice on key emerging trends that will influence the Group’s business and activit...

A dream come true to work among this team and help shape sustainable banking and policy! And a novel approach for corporate to assemble such a diverse board: www.societegenerale.com/en/news/pres...

How (not) to encourage sustainable travel? · Zoom · Luma How would you encourage people to ditch their petrol guzzling, congestion creating car? How would you get citizens out on their bikes, on the bus and trains…

How (not) to encourage sustainable travel - on the 1st of July, I will be speaking at a BeScy event together with ​Mike Daniels from The Behavioral Architects and Mike Scott from Cycling UK about the possibilities and limits of behavioral science for changing travel habits lu.ma/28rihhmh

Denmark is best in EU in getting workers back into jobs (twice the average rate). They also do tons of RCTs to find out what works and apply behavior science. Can’t say it’s causal, but it’s an interesting correlation at least.

I have been thinking whether I can somehow include it in my fall class, but its a bit far off topic for that one. But I‘ll recommend it to others and my students in general. I shared it on LinkedIn a while back as well to counter the hype.

I still have one of your „bullshit“ talks (from 2021) as a homework assignment for my students and have them choose their favorite bullshit examples and then we discuss them in class. I am a big fan of you work and LOVE the new AI course. Thanks for providing these resources!

Absolutely loved this mini course to think critically about GenAI! Can only recommend it to anyone!

University of Copenhagen and Zurich are dominating this innovation in field and survey experiments workshop @wzb.bsky.social 😄 so many cool experiments with important policy impact

Day 1 of the Workshop on Cognitive Foundations of Decision Making with presentations by @kaibarron.bsky.social @clarasievert.bsky.social @enhuahu.bsky.social Menglong Guan, Natalie Lee, Paul Grass, Julian Matthes, Luigi Butera, and Benjamin Enke.

Please send it when it’s done!

Interesting! What’s the mechanism for that? They overestimate sales?

Excited to host Benjamin Enke as this year’s Zeuthen lecturer the University of Copenhagen. The lectures run over three days and are complemented by a workshop on the cognitive foundations of decision making.

In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste Scientific Reports - In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste

Our publication on how multi-buy offers increase unplanned overbuying and how this can increase food waste at home is out and open-access! This was probably one of the most complicated field experiments I ever ran, but also one I am very proud of: rdcu.be/enmFi

Thanks, that one indeed looks good. But also here it’s more a lab in the field experiment with clearly defined tasks. It is not obvious that the productivity gains will translate to real legal work and thus markedly increase productivity. But it’s a good step.

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.

Only one year after replacing their customer service and marketing team with AI agents, Klarna is regretting the decision and trying to re-hire workers. The quality was just too low to justify the cost-savings. So looks like AI isn't taking your job, just yet. futurism.com/klarna-opena...

This also raises some questions about PhD supervision and data protection at MIT - some supervisor would have needed to sign a data sharing agreement and a secure server would have been needed for the data. That’s a lot of paperwork.

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The retracted study showed impacts on patents filed - something that would really matter for a firm's bottom line. A new Danish study also shows no effects on labor market outcomes www.nber.org/papers/w33777

I think the study is interesting, but the total time of the study was 5 hours, the tasks were carefully chosen, and the consultants who participated selected. I think there is no doubt that AI can speed up coding or writing, but I haven't seen much on how that impacts firm productivity.

And harm to the companies using results like this to spend billions on tools that don't work. So far there is very little evidence that AI tools increase productivity for complex tasks. This fake study was one of the only ones.

One of the best AI papers on productivity turned out to be made up - so disappointing! I really liked the paper and had it saved as „best paper on AI“. Too good to be true! As much of AI claims to fame. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...