Do we want to live in a meritocracy? | Sam Freedman theguardian.com/books/2022/jan…

Finally, a success story! But still a long way to go for Germany with respect to kidney exchange.

We are excited to announce the FAIR online workshop: Fairness and the moral mind. Eight promising young scholars present new papers on morality in economics. The workshop is open for everyone to join, read more about the event in the link below – welcome! nhh.no/en/research-ce…

🚨Call for papers🚨 Join us for M-BEES and M-BEPS in Maastricht this year, on June 7 & 8 2022! Deadline: March 4 We have some amazing keynote speakers this year: Botond Kőszegi George Loewenstein Friederike Mengel Martin Kocher More details 👇 researchers-sbe.unimaas.nl/m-bees/

Data from our representative survey shows: Two-thirds of the German population would be willing to pay higher prices for gas and heating if this were to increase pressure on the Russian government. 82% would lower their thermostat setting to save energy. (2/6)

"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve." - Elon Musk "In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified." - Michael Sandel

📢We are editting a special issue with Matteo M Galizzi in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics on Transparency, Reproducibility and Generalizability of Behavioral Economics Experiments Details👉 tinyurl.com/2p9hf2nd Center for Open Science Open Science Elsevier

Denkt auch an #IchbinHasan! In der aktuellen DIE ZEIT erweitert #WZB-Forscher Levent Neyse die #IchbinHanna-Debatte um die Perspektive ausländischer Forschender in Deutschland. Wir sammeln hier einige seiner zentrale Thesen.🧵(1/6)

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” - Werner Heisenberg

Another innocent, brave and beautiful young man executed by the Islamic Republic. They called his parents at 7am telling them that their son was executed at dawn, and his body buried by the executioners.

Astronomers using Hubble have recorded a star’s final moments as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Stellar shredding like this happens only a few times in every 100,000 years in any given galaxy with a supermassive black hole center: go.nasa.gov/3GLBRrA #AAS241

When universal basic income was described as advancing financial freedom, conservatives perceived the policy as more aligned with their values + were less opposed to the policy This suggests moral reframing can mitigate partisanship and social prejudice sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’m looking for a Phd student Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 starting in April ’23 (or later)! #EconTwitter #PhDposition Please apply and share widely (deadline is February 20, 2023): uni-kiel.de/personal/de/st…

📢Who has done great work on public policy and economic & governmental reforms? Send us your nominations for the #ASKAward (€100,000) & the Bright Mind Awards (€20,000 each) until February 28. 📩wzb.eu/en/the-wzb/ask… Craig Calhoun Richard Blundell Jennifer hochschild

I asked my Intro to Macroeconomics students at Bilkent to compete with ChatGPT in preparing a snapshot of the Turkish economy as part of their homework (below). It may be of interest to others who are thinking about how to integrate AI to undergrad teaching.

The first Berlin-Bergen #BehavioralEconomics Workshop will occur on Tuesday, March, 28. It's a fantastic collaboration of @BSE_Berlin Berlin Behavioral Economics and NHH Department of Economics, and we will host it Universität Potsdam CEPA. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #EconTwitter

Join us on September 29-30, 2023, in Lund, Sweden for the 15th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, an Arne Ryde Symposium. We're thrilled to have Johannes Haushofer Johannes Haushofer and Leeat Yariv Leeat Yariv as keynote speakers. sites.google.com/view/15th-nord… 1/2

What an amazing conference! We had a fantastic time with Hande Erkut Thanks a lot to M.Claire Villeval Astrid Fabio Galeotti , all the organizers, and great colleagues! ESA_Lyon_2023 Economic Science Association

📣 Job Announcement: 3-year postdoc position in Berlin Lab² is searching for its lab manager! Interested in replications and meta-science in economics? Are you an excellent programmer of economics experiments (lab & online)? More information in the link below.

If women are able and willing to work, it’s a shame if they’re hindered in their aspirations by societal expectations and systems… Hereby the news of our study. maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/%C3%B6zge…