Wednesday July 31
5:00 pm Optional Happy Hour at Colorado Craft Social (15 South Tejon, reservation under Jessica Hoel)
Thursday August 1
9:00 am Coffee, bagels, muffins, and fruit at Tutt Library Tim Fuller Events Space
9:30 am Jakina Debnam Guzman, Amherst College: “Spam, Advertisement, and Advice: Forming Opinions in Online Peer Networks”
10:00 am Dave Owens, Haverford College: “Risk Preferences, Probabilistic Thinking and Seemingly Irrelevant Factors”
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Germán Reyes, Middlebury College: “Effort Allocation, Misoptimization, and Performance Declines”
11:30 am Shakun Mago, University of Richmond: “Political Identity, Income Inequality, and Joy of Destruction: An experiment with Republicans and Democrats”
12:00 pm Lunch: Heart of Jerusalem Middle Eastern food
1:00 pm Discussion of Publishing (led by Jess)
2:00 pm Neeraja Gupta, University of Richmond: “Affirmative Action or Under-Confidence: Which Came First?”
2:30 pm Rachel Landsman, Bucknell University: “Signaling Gender in Experiments”
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Rachel Landsman, Bucknell University: “Gendered Outcome Bias”
4:00 pm Jeffrey Flory, Claremont McKenna College: “Diversity and Inclusion at Work: A field experiment on worker selection, productivity, and workplace behaviors”
4:30 pm Discussion of Earning Tenure (led by Dave and Shakun)
5:30 pm Break
6:30 pm Dinner at Four by Brother Luck of Top Chef fame (321 North Tejon, reservation under Jessica Hoel)
Friday August 2
7:00am Depart from the hotel for optional hike in North Cheyenne Cañon Park
60-90 minute out and back hike. We’ll start on the wide fire road known as High Drive as in this hike. Then it’s a Choose Your Own Adventure. Turn left at the top of the hill as on that All Trails Buckthorn Loop map for a bit more challenge, turn right to see Garden of the Gods from afar on a flatter trail, or keep going straight down the fire road for a wide predictable trail. Turn around 30-45 minutes in.
We’ll plan to return to the hotel at 9:30am and be at the conference by 10:30am
Please confirm your RSVP with Jessica
9:00 am Coffee, bagels, muffins, and fruit at Tutt Library Tim Fuller Events Space
9:30 am Optional Discussion of Teaching Experimental and Behavioral Economics (led by Neeraja)
10:30 am Rachel Mannahan, Tennessee Tech University: “Video Production Value in Online Lectures: Does Higher Production Value Lead to Improved Learning Outcomes?”
11:00 am Eren Bilen, Dickinson College: “When AI Gives Bad Advice: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Chatbots on Students’ Critical Thinking”
11:30 am Discussion of Getting Grants (free for all discussion because we all want advice and no one said they could offer it)
and
Lunch: Illegal Pete’s Mexican food
2:00 pm Chatting to close
Registration
There will be no registration fee for the workshop. Light breakfasts, coffee, and lunches will be provided. Participants should expect to pay for their own lodging, transportation, and dinners.
Travel & Accommodation
Participants can fly into either the Colorado Springs airport (COS, about 20 minutes from campus) or the Denver airport (DEN, about 90 minutes from campus).
We encourage people to book a hotel room at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Colorado Springs (1 mile from campus). A group rate of $189 per night is available using the link above or using the code LACBEE. The hotel will offer this rate to visitors for two days before and/or after the conference if you would like to extend your trip to Colorado. You must book your room by July 3 to make use of the group rate.
We may also be able to find inexpensive on-campus lodging options if enough people are interested. Let us know by email or through the registration form if you would like more information about on-campus lodging.
Organizers: Jessica Hoel, Jonathan Lafky, and Dave Owens
Contact: Please contact Jessical Hoel (jhoel at coloradocollege.edu) with any questions or suggestions