🌍 Want to use economics to tackle real-world challenges? 🚀 PhD Position (m/f/d) in Economics @tum.de We’re recruiting a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich to work on behavioral & environmental economics, using experimental methods. More info: tinyurl.com/y8yh9wt2

Research by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social et al suggests, despite the high stakes and learning opportunity of a real TV show game, with perfect information, and suitable for perfect backward induction, people still tend to exhibit limited foresight: buff.ly/PZQ9STq 1/2

Just a week left to apply!

Submission for the 2026 Research in Behavioral Finance Conference is now open! Don't miss out on the 6th edition of the fabulous RBFC series on Sep 18 & 19 in Amsterdam, with keynotes by Lauren Cohen (Harvard), Andrew Lo (MIT), and Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard).

I will be working from Osaka for the next two weeks. If you are around and like to meet up, let me know! Also, any tips are welcome.

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Honoured to be part of @cesifo.org's network!

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy! If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

Last week, I recorded a live podcast in Munich (yes, with real humans, not AI) about our research on giving behaviour, using a Dutch TV show where people donate to those in financial need. 🎙️ Listen here: pod.link/1536444695

My longtime co-author Dennie van Dolder recently recorded a podcast about our research into giving behavior (for which we used a Dutch TV show). A great listen—highly recommended!

Last week, I recorded a live podcast in Munich (yes, with real humans, not AI) about our research on giving behaviour, using a Dutch TV show where people donate to those in financial need. 🎙️ Listen here: pod.link/1536444695

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on July 7 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @dvdolder.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐱), who will present "Impact or Responsibility? Giving Behavior in a Televised Natural Experiment" #EconSky

100th Parkrun

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

New Research Briefing "An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives" out in @nathumbehav.nature.com. This Research Briefing provides a brief summary of "Why people follow rules" just published in @nathumbehav.nature.com. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Presenting our work using Dutch TV show data to study altruistic motives all the way in Beijing at Peking University. A great group to visit. The paper can be downloaded here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Presenting our work using Dutch TV show data to study altruistic motives all the way in Beijing at Peking University. A great group to visit. The paper can be downloaded here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

This is such an important point that I've updated my chart, just for @jasonfurman.bsky.social

🚨 New piece at @polbehavior.bsky.social w @chiaravalli.bsky.social @timgravelle.bsky.social @mikemikemed.bsky.social Céline Murri & Beatrice Eugster TLDR: In 🇨🇭 visible mosques increases support for the #FarRight in elections and in referenda (~ +3-5%) Paper: tinyurl.com/5xk6ydv9 Data: osf.io/27pkj

📢 We have FIVE open-ended positions available and are looking for people who are committed to both excellence in research and excellence in teaching in cognitive Neuroscience and psychology on our RT track 🔥 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Nottingham as I see it. It remains my favourite city, and it was great to be able to be back for a brief visit @uoncedex.bsky.social

Looking forward to visiting the Economics department at Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and my old research group (@uoncedex.bsky.social). Having lived in Nottingham for almost five years (MSc + Postdoc), it feels like visiting my old hometown 😀

Just posted on SSRN, an experimental follow-up to my comment with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social, and Robert Walatka. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

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Come Join us! Send your papers: [email protected] More info: tinyurl.com/yb5xn2yb @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgasbs.bsky.social @eugenioproto.bsky.social @basiczvonimir.bsky.social #FedericaFarolfi

🚨 A call for Expressions of Interest to apply for the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships to join the Econ Department at the University of Essex. #econsky #econtwitter vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

🚨 A call for Expressions of Interest to apply for the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships to join the Econ Department at the University of Essex. #econsky #econtwitter vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

I will be working in Munich for four weeks in July! Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet up. Thanks to @valeriaburdea.bsky.social and @econmunich.bsky.social for the hospitality!

ResearchGate is recommending me my own research. To be fair, it is the research I am generally most interested in 😅

Highly recommend Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain”. A very beautiful and layered movie

Read this last year. Highly recommended. The part on behavioral Econ was particularly interesting as someone in the field.

Financial decision making starter pack Happy to add you if you do research on consumer financial decision making, behavioral finance, pensions, saving, etc go.bsky.app/P6cGSdW

A great experimental econ starter pack by @sweiwang.bsky.social #econsky

We are hiring! We seek to appoint an Associate Professor of Climate Economics on a full-time or part-time contract who will contribute to the JusTNOW initiative. #EconSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ563/a...

The standard errors of persistence Timothy G. Conley, Morgan Kelly Forthcoming in J Intl Econ doi.org/10.1016/j.ji... #econsky

For those looking to follow behavioural scientists, a starter pack created by @susanmichie.bsky.social is available here!

Making my kids pasta tonight made me remember that time in college I realized you didn’t have to cook pasta to eat it. You can just eat it out of the box like a lil breadstick, and it’s fine.

Periodic reminder that my BibTeX Converter allows you to simply copy a screenshot of the journal website and get a perfectly formatted BibTeX entry chatgpt.com/g/g-4edrlrF3...

Introduce yourself with four footballers.

🎉 Publication alert, joint with @gmelios.bsky.social! Our paper examines how alignment with the government affects charitable giving. It has just been accepted in Public Choice. Find out about our findings below!

Want to hear about our new paper, Impact or Responsibility? Giving Behavior in a Televized Natural Experiment? Great! You can listen to an AI-generated podcast below #EconSky 📉📈

I have added a number of posters to the behavioural economics starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added too. go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT

Perfect summary of our new game show paper 👇

🚨 Now that we're all moving here, I'd like to share a recent working paper with @gmelios.bsky.social: Religion, Identity, and Preferences! 🚨 Want to find out how religiosity causally affects policy preferences and gender norms? A 🧵 #econsky #polisky

Lionel made a helpful starter pack of behavioral economists for those interested!