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Hi #EconTwitter, I’m new to (actually posting on) Twitter. I'm a behavioral and applied microeconomist working across a few different areas (discrimination, education, household finance, and, lately, on voting). See thread below for the latest ⬇️

Want to donate based on respectable estimates of impact? Choose better charities? Tina Rosenberg awesome writeup of our work ImpactMatters (now Charity Navigator) nytimes.com/2019/12/04/opi…. Charities range from food banks in USA to water charities overseas and then some.

Cool paper on inaccurate statistical discrimination by Devin Pope Aislinn Bohren Kareem Haggag @alexoimas. Statistical mistakes mean you can fail to find taste-based discrimination when it exists and vice versa. 1/5 faculty.chicagobooth.edu/devin.pope/ass…

The average wait time for voters in black neighborhoods is 29% longer than the wait time in white neighborhoods, according to a UCLA study. Even in the same county, voters in a hypothetical all-black precinct would wait 15% longer than voters in an all-white precinct

New data confirms that voters in majority-black neighborhoods are likelier to wait longer than those in majority-white neighborhoods. Kareem Haggag and Devin Pope have the latest: wapo.st/2ZvlwkC

Short interview with Hidden Brain on Morning Edition. I've really enjoyed working with amazing coauthors on this project—Rich Patterson, Nolan Pope, and Aaron Feudo

New paper! #EconTwitter Our paper on self-deception and (un)ethical advice is out in Games and Economic Behavior (Bribing the Self, w Uri Gneezy Marta Serra & Roel van Veldhuizen) authors.elsevier.com/a/1aV1c3CcBwPV… ⬇️Thread below⬇️

The endowment effect doesn't hold everywhere, as per my latest (and probably last) Halloween experiment, soon @ JEBO. Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect drive.google.com/file/d/1N3RvfK…. Richard H Thaler

Bocar Ba is a young economist whose research focuses on police use of force. I am always eager to read any new study he writes. Some of his work in this area:

Excellent op-ed by my friend Bocar Ba and Roman Rivera summarizing their important work on police complaints: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

To companies expressing support for racial equity 👏🏾👏🏾 Now show you mean it. Give workers (& contractors) paid time off to vote #time4voting Hourly & gig workers are already stretched - don't force them to make a financial sacrifice to vote. nyti.ms/2XWFwNG

After many years of effort it's awesome to see this come to life. I'm optimistic that together we'll be able to transform research and policymaking around poverty in the Middle East & North Africa. So many people and organizations to thank for their support...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity" by Stephen B. Billings, Eric Chyn, and Kareem Haggag. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The The Upshot just released a new analysis of racial disparities in voter wait times in the 2020 election using cell phone data. They find nearly identical results to those that we found in 2016 (compare graphs below). Replication: great! Continued racial disparities: not great

Deadline for submissions to the NTA conference is one week away! Keynotes by Raj Chetty and Cecilia Rouse and plenary panel on the US safety net featuring Marianne Bitler, Janet Currie, Kathy Edin, Bradley Hardy, and Hilary Hoynes. Submit by May 31! ntanet.org/2021/03/114th-…

Check out our recently accepted paper on attribution bias in college major choice! (with Kareem Haggag Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo)

Important forthcoming REStat paper uses smartphone data to show that Black voters experience dramatically longer wait times to vote (from Keith Chen Kareem Haggag Devin Pope & Ryne Rohla). Builds on Stephen Pettigrew's crucial work this topic. ungated kareemhaggag.com/f/Racial_Dispa…

White students exposed to racially diverse schoolmates in elementary and middle school were less likely to register as Republicans, providing evidence for the contact hypothesis, say Kareem Haggag, @ericchyn, and Stephen Billings in today's #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/schoo…