News & Events

• 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.

Upcoming

• December 4, 2025, 5:30PM Cathedral of Learning 324 - Book Talk with Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania)

• February 27 & 28th, 2026 - AI, Health & Well-being Conference

Past BEDI Conferences & Workshops

• October 17, 2025 PEEL Reopening Ceremony with Professor Vesterlund & Professor Roth

• October 17, 2025 BEDI Workshop 

• May 5-6, 2025 SBEERS Conference

• April 11-13, 2025 BEDI Health & Wellness Conference

• October 11, 2024 BEDI Workshop

• May 31-June 2, 2024 BEDI Conference

• September 24-25, 2022 BEDI Conference

Brown Bags - Experimental / Behavioral

Wednesdays, 12:00 to 1:00 pm in 4940 Wesley W. Posvar Hall (Fall/Spring only)

Seminar Series - Experimental / Behavioral

Fridays from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in 4940 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

• April 17, 2026 - Duarte Goncalves, University College London - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• April 10, 2026 - Spencer Kwon, Brown University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• April 3, 2026 - Yana Gallen, University of Chicago - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• March 27, 2026 - Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Bocconi University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• March 20, 2026 - Laura Gee, Tufts University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• March 6, 2026 - Jason Sommerville, University of California, Santa Barbara - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• February 27, 2026 - Shachar Kariv, University of California, Berkeley - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar

• 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

Past Events

• 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)