Great job candidates can find it harder to get jobs. Four experiments find that HR is suspicious of high capability job seekers, assuming they will care less about the company. So, the best candidates need to show more commitment than others to get hired. gsb-faculty.stanford.edu/adina-sterling…

#EconTwitter : Is this of interest? While making a coding test for an RA position, I remembered my experiences doing these. I learned coding for analysis in my masters, but not a ton of data cleaning. If I put together a repository of RA coding tests, would that be helpful?

Revisiting the "pink tax" (the likely myth of systematically higher prices for female-marketed products). Not because it's that important but because it says something good about social science research--but also bad about the political system's credulity on advocacy studies. A🧵

Random presentation tip for econ/finance PhD students, esp. for technical/theory ish stuff: When I first started presenting, I assumed a distribution of audience expertise that looked like this. Roughly normally distributed, most people know something about your topic matter

Sludge reduction really works! Important new NBER paper, showing that burden reduction much increases take-up of subsidized health insurance. Liam Delaney Richard H Thaler Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Samantha Power nber.org/papers/w30885

Diplomats from high-corruption countries accumulated significantly more unpaid parking violations. emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/corru…

Irreversibility. academic.oup.com/lpr/article/9/…

DECISIONS ABOUT DECISIONS - Kindle version coming in 5 days, with hardcover to follow shortly. (The author likes to think of this as his least-bad book, putting coauthored books to one side.) Cambridge University Press Bookshop Queens' College Cambridge University Press amazon.com/Decisions-abou…

Share of EJMR posts from the University of Chicago: 47x larger than posts from MIT. A quip about revealed preferences isn’t even needed, right?

Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Richard H Thaler Junofy Rozarina BEAR UofT Katy Milkman Cass Sunstein @alexoimas A couple days ago you were all about heterogeneity, now broad similarity? What the heck? You are making it difficult to make sweeping generalizations about you Dilip!

Experimentalist: Soon, I'll give a short course on programming experiments with oTree. What would you like to learn, wish you have known earlier, or what are some aspects you find challenging? Help me out, please (Comments and RT are much appreciated.) #EconTwitter

This is indeed a serious scoop by the scale of this (and related Prof Gino's fraud) story . Hartford insurance did not want to let their reputation be jeopardized by "They said, I said, we'll never know" claim by Ariely

📢📢📢 New publication alert! 🎉🥳 Excited to announce our interdisciplinary study, "Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making," found its home in JOEP. This project has been my most challenging yet rewarding endeavor. 👇1/5

A conference I started almost 30 years ago is coming to downtown Chicago in June. Danny Kahneman keynote! Help create the program by submitting a well-curated session or your best new paper. Great time to visit the city and connect with new people! chicagobooth.edu/research/roman…

Ever wonder why so many Norwegians ended up in Minnesota? Or Azoreans in Central California? Or Vietnamese in Louisiana? Our new working paper introduces “climate matching” as a driver of migration.

POLL!:🚨Should we start another BIG Seminar Series? 🚨

Some random practical PhD advice in no particular order: - almost everyone should start their dissertation by writing a paper, even if you plan to write a book dissertation. It’s less pressure and you can always expand it if you find the page count growing and growing.