Publication: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan", by Muhammad Yasir Khan, was published in the July 2025 issue of the American Economic Review.
News: Lise Vesterlund, BEDI Director, was appointed a fellow of the Economic Science Association on Friday, June 7, 2025.
News: Lise Vesterlund, BEDI Director, was appointed an honorary doctorate at the Copenhagen Business School on Friday, March 21, 2025.
News: The Financial Times covered recent work by Osea Giuntella, Yi Lu and Tianyi Wang on robots and workers in China on November 14, 2024.
Publication: "Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments" by David Danz, Lise Vesterlund and Alistair Wilson, was published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives in fall 2024.
Publication: "Looming Large or Seeming Small: Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample" by Stephanie Wang and co-authors was published in the Review of Economic Studies on September 10, 2024.
Publication: "Sleep Norms", a BEDI-funded article by Stephanie Wang, Osea Giuntella, and Andrea Kiss, was published in the May 2024 AEA Papers and Proceedings.
News: Stephanie Wang has been named Associate Editor of Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
News: On April 14, 2024, BEDI welcomed Uri Gneezy to Pitt to discuss incentives, and his new book, Mixed Signals.
Publication: "Self-Signaling in Voting", by Stephanie Wang and co-authors, was published in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of Public Economics.
News: The No Club named one of 12 best business books of 2022 by The Times on November 27, 2022.
News: On November 10, 2022, The No Club co-authors discussed their book on Nature Careers Community: "Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough."
News: Alistair Wilson presented "Lab to Algorithm: Predicting AIs with Humans, and Vice Versa" at the Behavioral Game Theory Workshop in July 2022.
News: Stephanie Wang presented "Self-Signaling in Voting" in the Economics of Animal Welfare session at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Conference in July 2022.
News: Alistair Wilson published an article on the effects of interviews on the NRMP Match in the June 2022 issue of AER: Insights.
News: Lise Vesterlund’s new book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work is available May 2022.
Publication: Lise Vesterlund published "How Women Faculty Can Avoid Career-Busting Busy Work: Saying No When You’re Programmed to Say Yes." in the Harvard Business Review in April 2022.
News: Lise Vesterlund participated in the Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE) on February 3, 2022.
News: Lise Vesterlund participated in the Science and Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) online panel on January 2022.
News: Lise Vesterlund joined the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives in January 2022.
News: Stephanie Wang joined the editorial board of Games and Economic Behavior in January 2022.
News: Alistair Wilson joined the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics in January 2022.
News: Lise Vesterlund's research is cited in the New York Times article, Goodbye to the Office Mom in September 2021.
News: Lise Vesterlund receives the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award on February 24, 2021.
Publication: "Experimenter Demand Effects", by Jonathan de Quidt, Lise Vesterlund, and Alistair Wilson was published in the Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences in 2019.
October 17, 2025 PEEL Reopening Ceremony with Professor Vesterlund & Professor Roth
October 17, 2025 BEDI Workshop
December 4, 2025 - Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania) will present his new book Lucky by Design
Wednesdays, 12:00 to 1:00 pm in 4940 Wesley W. Posvar Hall (Fall/Spring only)
Fridays from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in 4940 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
December 5, 2025 - Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
October 31, 2025 - James Bland, University of Toledo - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
October 3, 2025 - Menglong Guan, Penn State University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
August 11, 2022 - Broeg Literaturbar, Copenhagen, Meet the author (Lise Vesterlund)
August 19, 2022 - Aarhus University, Department of Economics, Denmark (Lise Vesterlund)
July 14-15, 2022 - Behavioral Game Theory Workshop (Alistair Wilson)
July 13-14, 2022 - Russell Sage Behavioral Summer Camp, Boston (Lise Vesterlund)
July 12, 2022 - Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, Animal Welfare (Stephanie Wang)
June 21-23, 2022 - FAIR Midway Conference, Norway (Lise Vesterlund)
June 2, 2022 - Women in Leadership, Keller Williams Worldwide (Lise Vesterlund)
May 15, 2022 - LinkedIn Live with Lisa McLeod (Lise Vesterlund)
May 12, 2022 - Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, Berkeley (Lise Vesterlund)
May 11, 2022 - Cottrell Salon, Stanford University (Lise Vesterlund)
May 10, 2022 - Google, Women in Cloud (Lise Vesterlund)
May 9, 2022 - Penn Club of New York (Lise Vesterlund)
May 5, 2022 - Greater Houston Women's Conference for Women (Lise Vesterlund)
May 3, 2022 - The No Club Book Launch, Pittsburgh Art and Lecture Series at the Carnegie Hall (Lise Vesterlund)
April 27, 2022 - The Salon (Lise Vesterlund)
April 26, 2022 - RAND's Distinguished Speaker Series (Lise Vesterlund)
April 18, 2022 - University of Michigan (Lise Vesterlund)
March 24, 2022 - Women in Leadership, University of Pittsburgh (Lise Vesterlund)
March 3, 2022 - Texas A&M, John Van Huyck Memorial Lecture (Lise Vesterlund)
February 23, 2022 - Harvard Business School (Lise Vesterlund)
February 16, 2022 - University of Maryland, Department of Economics (Lise Vesterlund)