Fall 2020 Schedule

September 9

When Choices are Mistakes

Kirby Nielson, Caltech


September 15

Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives

Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh

September 22

Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion

Silvia Saccardo, Carnegie Mellon

September 29

Mistakes and Overconfidence in Detecting Lies

Marta Serra-Garcia, UC San Diego

October 6

Mistakes in Future Consumption, High MPCs Now

Chen Lian, UC Berkeley

October 13

Self-persuasion: Evidence from Two International Debating Competitions

Peter Schwardmann, University of Munich (LMU)

October 20

Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect

Sevgi Yuksel, UC Santa Barbara

October 27

Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices

Ricardo Perez-Truglia, UC Berkeley

November 3

Shrouded Attributes in Workplace Incentives: The Case of the Ratchet Effect

Collin Raymond, Purdue University

November 10

The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity

Kareem Haggag, Carnegie Mellon

November 17

Digital Addiction

Hunt Allcott, NYU

December 1

Sophisticated Consumers with Inertia: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Avner Strulov-Shlain, Chicago Booth

December 8

School Advising and Gender Differences in Program Choice

Heather Sarsons, Chicago Booth