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BEDI Workshop - Friday, October 11

Breakfast 8:15 am – 8:45 am 

Dining Room B, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Conference presentations on Friday, as well as breakfast and lunch, will be held on the first floor of the William Pitt Union. Lecture – Dining Room A; breakfast and lunch – Dining Room B. The William Pitt Union is the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh main campus and is a Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark.

Presentation schedule

Each talk in session is scheduled for 25 minutes. All talks are held in Dining Room A.

Conference Welcome 8:45 am – 9:00 am

Lise Vesterlund, BEDI Director, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Session 1 9:00 am – 10:15 am

Vini Singh – Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Gender Mix and Team Performance: Evidence from Childbirth”

Lukas Bolte – Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, “Welfare Costs of False Beliefs”

David Klinowski – Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Gender-equality paradox in competitiveness: Evidence and explanations”

Refreshment Break | 10:15 am – 10:45 am

Session 2 10:45 am – 12:00 pm

David Huffman – Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Minds, Models, and Markets: How Managerial

Cognition Shapes Pricing Strategies

Yucheng Liang – Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Why Exclude Test Scores from Admission

Criteria?”

Alistair Wilson – Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Costly Belief Elicitation”

Lunch | 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm | Dining Room B

Session 3 1:15pm – 2:30 pm

Colin Sullivan – Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Confronting Privilege”

Lise Vesterlund - BEDI Director, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Gendered Work: Onset

and Consequence”

Peter Schwardmann – Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Talking across the Aisle”

Refreshment Break | 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Session 4 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Silvia Saccardo – Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Scaling Nudges”

Russell Golman – Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Goal Setting and Belief-Based Utility”

John Conlon – Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “Persuasion through Cues”

Refreshment break | 4:15 pm-4:30 pm

Session 5 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

George Loewenstein – Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Bi-directional

Relationship Between Shame and Disclosure”

Osea Giuntella - Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, “Narratives, Accents, and Health Behavior”

Happy Hour 5:30 pm 

University Club, 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 – Appetizers and cocktails will be held in the library.