News and Events

• The second BEDI Conference is scheduled for May 31 - June 2, 2024, at the University of Pittsburgh. Program details and registration information is now available online.

• An article by Stephanie Wang and co-authors "Self-Signaling in Voting" will appear in the March 2024 Journal of Public Economics. 

• "Sleep Norms," a BEDI-funded article by Stephanie Wang, Osea Giuntella, and Andrea Kiss, is forthcoming in the 2024 AEA Papers and Proceedings. 

• Stephanei Wang has been named Associate Editor of Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.

• David Huffman presented talks on "Bounded Rationality and Strategic Competition: Evidence from Gas Station Managers" at Princeton University (October 2023), University of Pennsylvania (October 2023), Cornell University (November 2023), and the London School of Economics (November 2023).

• David Huffman shares his new working paper, "Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision"

• BEDI welcomes Uri Gneezy to Pitt to discuss incentives, and new book Mixed Signals.

• Professor David Huffman has been selected to be Editor in Chief for the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Economics.

• David Huffman presented his paper “Moral Luck: Mechanisms, Robustness, and Prevalence” at the Chicago Booth School of Business (November 2022), CESifo Conference in Behavioral Economics (October 2022), and the Experimental Economics section of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Conference (August 2022).

• The No Club named one of 12 best business books of 2022 by The Times (November 27, 2022)

• David Huffman presented his paper “Economic Preferences and Temperature: Global Evidence” at the briq workshop on climate change (November 2022).

• The No Club co-authors in Nature Careers Community: Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough (November 10, 2022)

• Stay up to date with news coverage from around the world of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work, co-authored by BEDI Director Dr. Lise Vesterlund.

• September 24 & 25, 2022 - Details about the first annual BEDI Inaugural Conference are available online.

• July 2022 - Professor Wilson presents his work on "Lab to Algorithm: Predicting AIs with Humans, and Vice Versa" at the Behavioral Game Theory Workshop

• July 2022 - Professor Wang presented her work on "Self-Signaling in Voting" in the Economics of Animal Welfare session at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Conference.  

• June 2022: Professor Wilson's article on the effects of Interviews on the NRMP Match in the latest issue of AER: Insights 

• May 2022 - Professor Vesterlund’s new book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work is available now

• April 2022 - Professor Vesterlund writes an article for the Harvard Business Review 

• January 2022 - Professor Vesterlund participated in the Science and Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) online panel. Watch it here.

• January 2022 - Professor Vesterlund joined the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

• January 2022 - Professor Wang joined the editorial board of Games and Economic Behavior.

• January 2022 - Professor  Wilson joined the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

• September 2021 - Professor Vesterlund's research is cited in the New York Times.

• July 2021 - Professor Huffman presents "Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Effort Provision" at the NBER Personnel Economics Workshop

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Events categorized as Pitt Experimental / Behavioral Seminar Series take place from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in 4940 Wesley W. Posvar Hall.

• May 31 - June 2, 2024 - BEDI Conference

• April 19, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Sandro Ambuehl, University of Zurich

• April 12, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Devin Pope, University of Chicago

• April 5, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Alex Imas, University of Chicago

• March 29, 2024 - 2024 McKay Lecture, John List, University of Chicago

• March 29, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Astrid Hopfensitz, EMLyon Business School

• March 22, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Björn Bartling, University of Zurich

• March 8, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Seda Ertac, Koç University

• March 1, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Sevgi Yuksel, UCSB

• February 23, 2024 - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Muriel Niederle, Stanford