Gendered Responses to Subtle Social Pressure: Experimental Evidence from Survey Results This study analyzes whether subtle variations in the survey questionnaire phrasing influence participant engagement and whether these effects differ by gender. Building on theories of social pressure ...

My new paper examines whether subtle survey phrasing influences engagement and whether gender moderates these effects. Results show no treatment or gender differences.

Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.01565

#BehavioralEcon #GenderResearch #ExperimentalEcon #EconResearch #EconSky #AcademicSky

📢 Applied Lunch Seminar at UAB
Caroline Coly (UB) will present
“The Bystander Issue: Understanding the Role of Beliefs in Workplace Sexual Harassment”
🗓️ Nov 4, 2025 – 13:30
📍Seminari A

#EconSeminar #AppliedEconomics #BehavioralEcon

#SportsEconomics #LaborEcon #BehavioralEcon #DEI #Colorism #Refereeing #WNBA #MachineLearning #AppliedMicro #WorkingPaper

#cogsci #behavioralecon

My class was given anonymized tax returns to study. (mine)

They were asked if they thought the rates paid were adequate. If not, what they thought the payments should be.
Once informed they were mine, their tune changed.

#BehavioralEcon for the win!!

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I’m hosting a Session at #WEAI100: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
🗓 Sun, Jun 22 | 10:15–12 PDT
📍 SF Marriott Marquis, L2, Foothill D
Papers on:
🎮 Nationalism in games
🚕 Market homophily
💡 Online Knowledge contributions
🔥 Hot-hand belief
#WEAI #BehavioralEcon #Econsky

Wealthy entrepreneurs persistently hold on to their capital. Agneta introduces identity to help explain this observation: the firm is part of who the entrepreneurs are, and selling feels like losing part of themselves. #Entrepreneurship #BehavioralEcon #Wealth

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🔓 Read the full paper here:
"Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: Heterogeneous Abatement Costs and Voting on Redistribution"
JEBO, Open Access → tinyurl.com/bde643fx
#Climate #BehavioralEcon #LabExperiment

The Undoing Project Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize - winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote...

share.libbyapp.com/title/2766628 Just finished this and cannot recommend it enough. After listening to #MoneyBall because of my kiddos love of sports I decided to give this one a listen too. A wonderful distraction from the insanity of the day. #EconSky #BehavioralEcon @michaellewis65.bsky.social

The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy Efficiency Investments (January 2025) - Using British data on over 7 million residential property sales, we find that the simplified energy efficiency (EE) information leads to important market effects. UK legislation requi...

Sellers upgrade homes below energy rating thresholds (C→B) to avoid 'loss,' buyers pay premiums above for 'gains.' Not inattention & anchoring—loss aversion & framing. GREAT PAPER! #BehavioralEcon www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Honesty oaths seemed to decrease dishonest behaviour in 7 studies across the US, UK, and Mexico.

However, the effect of the potential to benefit a partner on dishonesty didn’t reach conventional levels of significance.

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

#psychology #ethics #xPhi #behavioralEcon #openAccess

Hiding personal info leads others to assume the worst, even positive info. Modesty misinterpreted. | http://www.pnas.org/content/113/4/954.abstract #behavioralecon