Proud of this paper; five years in the making. Correcting consumer beliefs about carbon impact of meat products (controlling for salience and social norms) does *not* lead to any change in consumption behavior in our setting. Any effects of carbon labels are likely to work through salience/norms.

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Correcting Consumer Misperceptions about CO2 Emissions" by Taisuke Imai, Davide D. Pace @ddpace.bsky.social, Peter Schwardmann, and Joel J. van der Weele @joelvdweele.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/bEoFyEq 📉📈 #EconSky

Last 3 days to apply!

10 days left to apply! 👇 Keynotes: Marcella Alsan (Stanford University) and Dmitry Taubinsky (UC Berkeley).

“CO2 was never a pollutant.” Words Can Kill 101. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

Urgency everywhere, but there are also reasons for 🇪🇺 leaders to play the long game (react calmly) even though MAGA is criminal & dangerous. 1. maximum support for 🇺🇦, keeping 🇺🇸 on the team 2. buy time for military, tech, trade 3. AfD & Co can't score if people are more anti MAGA than gov't

If grovelling to Trump is meant to buy us time to end our dependency on the US, you’d expect feverish activity in Europe to rapidly become autonomous. So has Europe made good use of the time it has bought with self-humiliation? It has not. My blog: open.substack.com/pub/sophiein...

"Europeans can be proud of their development model" Indeed! Time to decouple from the US and fly the flag of the liberal and welfare state our forefathers built after WWII. 🇪🇺 We can be a better beacon for the free world. 🇪🇺

📢Call for Applications: Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is inviting applications for fully funded doctoral positions starting October 2026! ❗ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 Online application tool: lmy.de/SKRWv More info: lmy.de/ZLXgm

How information campaigns can fall short even if they successfully correct beliefs: Our experiments show that correcting consumers' large underestimations of which products cause high emissions does not have an effect on their actual consumption decisions.

In 2025 this youthy conference was fantastic 👇🏼 for 2026 #Econsky

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

🚨 Call for Papers! The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026 📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT #EAYE2026

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals. The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky. This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy. 1/n

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

If you are a scientist in any field or just plainly a curious human being do subscribe to Andrea's substack. It contains and will keep delivering the most unexpected "oh! I didn't know that! Makes sense!" moments in your near future.

How do social interactions foster or hamper delusional beliefs? This is the most pressing open question in the literature on motivated beliefs. Great to see progress being made 👇

"Voters Like Climate Policies More Than You Think". New policy piece for EconPol Forum based on recent research findings www.ifo.de/en/econpol/p... Key messages: 1️⃣ Voters are willing to make sacrifices for climate change, and they endorse costly climate policies #EconSky #ClimateChange 1/3

"pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics" New preprint by Taisuke Imai et al.: osf.io/preprints/me...

🔔 Call for Participation 🔔 Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes. Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!

🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER! With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions. In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️ www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

Last few hours to square your contribution to 🇺🇦!

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

we are looking for an Associate Professor (tenure track) in applied Economics, pls share: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€. The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€. An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on. yourcontributionsquared.eu

If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1. If two people give 2 each, it is €4. If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million. Let’s coordinate, here 👇 and please re-post to spread the word. yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/

If it’s a trade war Trump wants, consumers in Mexico, Canada, Europe, and beyond should unite to ensure that Musk and his fellow oligarchs feel the cost www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...

Come join us for the 'Gender in Society' Summer Course at the @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social in Amsterdam! This was a lot of fun to teach last year, very much looking forward to doing this again 🤩

A thread worth reading

Don’t know how to express this forcefully enough but sometimes dudes have to say something for people to listen ➡️ Women and girls belong in science and we’re all better off bc of our trans and cis female mentors, colleagues, and students 🙏

Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language. LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing. 🎥👇 youtu.be/NujyGZSA7Hg

The "uncut, bloopers included" versions of these papers are in pre-production! Great initiative!!

But not Italy... Shame on our government. I wonder how long it will take before Giorgia Meloni will also be internationally considered a threat to democracy. Her government attacks the independence of the judiciary daily. Time to stop seeing her as harmless just because she is close to the US.

🧵 In sole due settimane, Musk sta smantellando il sistema pubblico della ricerca negli Stati Uniti, con danni incalcolabili e duraturi per gli interessi americani e il benessere del resto del mondo. Perché dovremmo preoccuparcene tutti, anche in Europa. 👇 1/19

🚨 Oprea (2024 AER) argued that prospect theory choice anomalies were not due to risk, but due to complexity-driven mistakes. But this new analysis convinces me that Oprea (2024) is substantially wrong. In my opinion, the paper should be retracted.

Bitte. Es wird Zeit wenn 2 Tonnen Auto durch die Straßen rasen und jede Woche (!) ein Kind auf Deutschlands Straßen stirbt! Daran sollten @cducsueuropa.bsky.social @gruene.de arbeiten; es sterben vielmals mehr Kinder im Straßenverkehr als durch Migranten, Asylbewerber, oder zugezogene.

I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

🚨Call for papers🚨 Join us for M-BEES and M-BEPS in Maastricht this year, on June 10 & 11 2025! Deadline: March 1 We have some amazing keynote speakers this year: Rachel Kranton Guillaume Fréchette Marc Gurgand Axel Ockenfels More details👇 tinyurl.com/58a5c75v #EconSky

A set of contradictory steps that has one thing in common: direct handouts to fossil interests, at the cost of almost everything else — people, planet, logic www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/c...

📢 Save the date! The Metascience 2025 conference, hosted by the Research on Research Institute, is happening June 30–July 2 at University College London. Proposals are due by February 7. ⏳ Learn more: opusproject.eu/openscience-...

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

The discussion ending at this tweet is very smart on both sides ( @lugaricano.bsky.social and @shengwuli.bsky.social ), reasonably spicy, and fun to read.

🌍💡 @ddpace.bsky.social shares key insights from the paper “How to Increase Public Support for Carbon Pricing with Revenue Recycling?” by A. Woerner, T. Imai, D. Pace, and K. Schmidt. 👉 Read the interview here: www.econ.lmu.de/en/latest-ne... 🔗 Access the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pls share: Davide Cantoni and me are looking for pre-doc research assistants to work on projects in international economics and econ history! For details, see: bit.ly/4gSNIVh