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.
December 4, 2025 - Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania) will present his new book Lucky by Design
October 17, 2025 BEDI Workshop - Details coming soon!
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
April 25, 2025 - Keyu Wu, Harvard University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
April 11, 2025 - Emma Smith, Georgetown University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
April 4, 2025 - Holger Herz, University of Fribourg - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
March 21, 2025 - Jeongbin Kim, Florida State University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
February 21, 2025 - Mark Dean, Columbia University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
February 14, 2025 - Max Muller, Toulouse School of Economics - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
February 7, 2025 - Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
December 13, 2024 - Ned Augenblick, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
November 15, 2024 - Pedro Dal Bó, Brown University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
November 8, 2024 - Ran Shorrer, Penn State University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
October 9, 2024 - Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Queen Mary University of London - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
September 13, 2024 - Chad Kendall, University of Miami - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar,
April 19, 2024 - Sandro Ambuehl, University of Zurich - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
April 12, 2024 - Devin Pope, University of Chicago - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
April 5, 2024 - Alex Imas, University of Chicago - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
March 29, 2024 - Astrid Hopfensitz, EMLyon Business School - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
March 29, 2024 - John List, University of Chicago - McKay Lecture
March 22, 2024 - Björn Bartling, University of Zurich - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
March 8, 2024 - Seda Ertac, Koç University - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
March 1, 2024 - Sevgi Yuksel, UCSB - Experimental/Behavioral Seminar
February 23, 2024 - Muriel Niederle, Stanford - 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)