I'm excited to release a new working paper today. When we paid people ~$20, they were 13pp more likely to take the Covid Booster shot. This guaranteed financial incentive worked better than lottery and charitable incentives in our large, pre-registered field experiment.

New Working Paper. LEGO movie summary of main result 😀 For more results see NBER Working Paper (nber.org/papers/w32899). Amazing team: Pol Campos-Mercade Armando Meier Devin Pope Florian H. Schneider Erik Wengström

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap" by Demid Getik and Armando N. Meier. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

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Frauen verdienen mehr, wenn sie als Kinder mehrheitlich mit anderen Mädchen die Schulbank drückten. Das zeigt eine Studie der @unibasel und der DurhamUni mit Daten von 750'000 Schülerinnen und Schülern. Armando Meier unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/New…

XLIV #JornadasAES Mesa de ponencias I: "Global Strategies and Challenges in #Vaccination" 🗣️ Simon Brassel (Office of Health Economics) 🗣️ Armando Meier (University of Basel)  🗣️ Flavio Toxværd ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Cambridge University) 📅 18 Junio  📍 Complutense, #Madrid ℹ️ f.mtr.cool/xpwofybayp

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A short summary of recent work with Aidan Coville and Sampada KC on the large amount of weight policymakers place on local evidence, now out at the JDE: evavivalt.com/2025/05/how-mu…

We wanted to verify the evidence behind >$1 billion in grants we've made to our top charities — so we asked I4R to see if they could get the data to replicate the underlying RCTs. It didn't go great... 🧵

Very honored to be an invited speaker at the Spanish Health Economics Association Meeting on policies to increase vaccination uptake

When Bangladesh launched its national immunisation program in 1979, a third of their 500,000 annual child deaths were from vaccine-preventable diseases. Today, the country is officially polio-free and has dramatically reduced child mortality. bit.ly/4kBJhQt

If you ✅ work on gender inequality in the labor market ✅ want to finally understand what this never-ending DiD literature is talking about ✅ teach recent advances in DiD then take a look at our WP with Lukas Riedel! 🔗rfberlin.com/research/child… ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin