About 2 weeks left to apply for our PhD programme in Economics! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions (I am the programme director).

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

👏 Congratulations to Roberto Weber on winning the Mentoring Award '23! The prize recognizes his dedication as a mentee to early career researchers. The call for nominations takes place annually. Young researchers at Universität Zürich are invited to nominate their supervisors.

Congratulations to Devin Pope Devin Pope for being appointed as AER coeditor, starting in July. I’m delighted to have him on our team. AEA Journals

Job posting! We're looking for a part-time RA/data analyst who can support us in wrapping up a field experiment on US poverty policy. Looking for someone who is experienced with Stata 📈 Details here: tinyurl.com/yc5bvcsz . With Jon M Jachimowicz, Oliver Hauser. Thanks!!

We are recruiting a Post Doc in environmental economics. Note that prior experience in experimental methods is seen as qualifying. Deadline 30 September. 👇

🤔Is paying people for vaccination effective? In a literature review, we find that incentives usually increase vaccination. Our new review paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: “Motivating vaccination with financial incentives” cell.com/action/showPdf… 👇🧵

Back by popular demand: The MiddExLab virtual experimental economics seminar series resumes this Thursday at noon EST (NYC time). Seminars are open to all -- sign up on our website to receive the distribution emails. sites.google.com/view/middexlab…

Top Econ student + interests in economic behavior and inequality 👉 apply for PhD scholarships at CEBI - Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality Economics_UCPH Deadline March 3 👉 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1609…

Join Andreas Beerli and my team to work on exciting large-scale policy experiments

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.

Monetary incentives are effective for vaccination motivation. Guaranteed money works better than lottery, prosocial, or individually-targeted incentives, from Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando Meier, Meier, Devin Pope, Florian H. Schneider, and Wengström nber.org/papers/w32899

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

🤔How does being around more girls in primary school affect later careers and wages? Women earn more after going to school with more girls. And, they choose less gender stereotypical jobs “Early Socialization and the Gender Wage Gap” shorturl.at/SiXp2 w Demid Getik

🚨Job Market Paper Alert 🚨 A significant part of inequality stems from market forces beyond individual control - what we call *market luck*. In meritocratic societies, this raises a key question: Do people perceive these inequalities as fair? Read on to learn more. 👇 [1/14]

Just one more week left to apply for Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Microeconomic theory at the University of Copenhagen!

We are hiring a PhD - application deadline 15. January 2025 linkedin.com/posts/torben-h…

The authors study labor markets for jobs in industries and firms widely perceived as immoral. Just Accepted new paper by Florian H. Schneider (Florian H. Schneider), Fanny Brun, and Roberto A. Weber zurl.co/YCWhP

Josh Dean and I are each hiring a Research Professional (predoc) to work full time in Chicago starting this summer. If you are interested in empirical behavioral economics and eventually graduate school, please consider applying for the position. Link in the next tweet.