If you are a behavioural/experimental economist in the UK you should join us in the BEE-UK network. We are over 100 members now and we'd like to have as many local leads and members in as many UK universities as possible! www.bee-uk.org/join-now/

Forthcoming article "Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events" by Christoph K Becker, Tigran Melkonyan @eugenioproto.bsky.social @andissofianos.bsky.social Stefan T Trautmann @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Excited for our Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research Centre (EMBR) to be hosting this! Many thanks to @diegomarinofages.bsky.social for the initiative to securing hosting this next year! @durham.ac.uk

We are delighted to be hosting you! @durhameconomics.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

How do attitudes and beliefs shape whether people cooperate for the common good when there is no chance of future return? @diegomarinofages.bsky.social , @durham-university.bsky.social , @durhameconomics.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/beliefs-grou... #economics

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

Very happy that this is finally out!

Very proud of Lex for this achievement. It was a pleasure to supervise him. In fact, he needed very minimal guidance on his dissertation. Well done Lex!

„Big-Team Science enables structured, collaborative research.“ In his interview in the ZBW Open Science Magazine, Lab² member David Albrecht reflects on what makes Big-Team Science valuable. 👉 Read the full interview (in German): open-science-future.zbw.eu/big-team-sci... @da-lbrecht.bsky.social

If you care about higher education in the UK, read the @britishacademy.bsky.social 's response to the Government's Immigration White Paper. It is well worth the time.

Our experiments are only as strong as their ability to be replicated Pleased to see our 2022 study on intelligence & strategy in repeated games validated by a high-powered experiment. Thanks to Michalis & Graeme.

Last week the Centre for Macroeconomic Policy (CEMAP) hosted its annual conference on June 19th-20th. Thanks to all the speakers for an exciting two days! #EconSky @durham-university.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk//business/ne...

Hosted the 2nd Development Economics Workshop (DEW 2025) on June 18th & 19th. Thanks to our keynotes Marcel Fafchamps and Karen Macours, and an excellent line-up of speakers dew.webspace.durham.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social #EconSky

Very happy to see our paper with @eugenioproto.bsky.social and Aldo replicated by Michalis (@mdrouvelis.bsky.social) & Graeme! #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very proud of our excellent students!

Had a great time hosting our friends from Newcastle University for the third iteration of our Durham-Newcastle Behavioural & Experimental Economics Mini-Workshop @durhameconomics.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #EconSky

Kicking off our workshop on "Rules, Norms, and Complexity" hosted by the Centre for Experimental Methods and Behavioural Research (EMBR) shortly. We have some interesting talks from both economists and psychologists. @durhameconomics.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #EconSky

Can vouch for a great work environment and great city to live in. Jörg was a great mentor to have!

📢 Call for Papers– 2nd Development Economics Workshop (DEW) 2025 at @durham-university.bsky.social 🗓️ 18-19 June 2025 📍 Durham University, UK 🎤 Keynotes: Marcel Fafchamps, Karen Macours, Maitreesh Ghatak

The Third Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics kicking off. Happy that members of our behavioural and experimental group are helping organise and participating #EconBlueSky

Our paper with Marco Lambrecht and Yilong Xu is part of the March issue of this year in Management Science. #EconSky doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...

After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…

Experimentally-validated mechanism design in action @oechssler.bsky.social @andissofianos.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have written a review article on the research within experimental economics studying the impact of intelligence on economic decision making. doi.org/10.1093/acre... #EconSky

Starting today a short research visit at the @wzb.bsky.social - many thanks to @leventneyse.bsky.social for hosting!

Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips. Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’ - exc from @ecourea.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

RIP Richard Easterlin. His legacy lives on. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...

Are you an aspiring Economist from an underrepresented background? The Durham Economics Mentoring Program (DEMP) is here to support you on your journey to academic excellence. #EconSky #EconJMP

Everyone seems to have a feeling that humanity's best times just happened to coincide with their youth... #Nostalgia #GoodOldTimes #OurBrainIsTrickingUs

The real reason Finland is the happiest country in the world isn't the sauna (www.economist.com/europe/2024/...); it's this:

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone working on Climate Economics. The first three years of the position will almost exclusively be research-focused!

Inspired by Paolo's (bsky.app/profile/paol...) and Alex's (bsky.app/profile/alex...) poignant accounts of their early experiences, here are some stray thoughts, mostly on mentorship: I was struck that they both remembered so vividly profound rejection from senior scholars.

Totally agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social. The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs. 🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.

Great thread Alex and thanks for sharing. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this ongoing revolution. Happy it's happening, sad it took so long, baffled at all the things I had to unlearn along the years while the "urns&balls are the only game in town" phase. Anecdotes mini thread 🧵.

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

Very happy that our paper with Marco Lambrecht and Yilong Xu is officially out as an article in advance in Management Science: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

#Econsky 📈📉 Have you heard of Lab Squared — a hub for replications and meta-science based at WZB Berlin? 👉Well, now you have! 📢It aims to advance the frontiers of replication and meta-science! 1/4

How very conservative, calling for the failure of a sector that brings in £130 billion a year (intake from international studies at £41.9 billion alone) and employs a quarter of a million academic staff. Beacon also calls for the elimination of all subject domains excluding vocational degrees

Please get in touch if interested, I'd personally have some bias towards behavioural/experimental topics but our department will consider any topic in Economics!

Funding opportunities for PhD positions in the Economics Department at Durham University. We welcome expressions of interest by 2nd January 2024, if interested get in touch as soon as possible at durham.ac.uk jobs.theguardian.com/job/8784266/... #EconSky

Slightly tired of students repeating that my course is "challenging yet rewarding". They do not seem to realize that challenges are the essence of reward.

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

Intelligence disclosure has a complex, often negative effect on cooperation. Our new paper with Marco Lambrecht, Eugenio Proto, and Aldo Rustichini forthcoming on the American Journal Microeconomics www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1s6xc...

Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2024 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! Bonn, briq, July 1–2 More infos sites.google.com/site/ecbecon... #ECBE2024 #EconSky 📉📈