Andy Brownback

Associate professor at U Arkansas. Official research: Behavioral economics. Unofficial research: tennis, beer, music, woodworking, sci-fi. Opinions are my own.

[The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal]

Healthy food subsidies are more effective when delivered with an enforced waiting period and shopper agency. In the May issue, by Andy Brownback (@ABrownback), Alex Imas (@alexoimas), and Michael A. Kuhn (@mikeanton13) https://t.co/ogv0ljJbV0

[The JHR @J_HumanResource]

When students in #CommunityCollege are offered summer school #scholarships, graduation within one year increases by 32% and transfers to four-year colleges increase by 58%, a field experiment by @ABrownback & @SallySadoff reveals. https://t.co/qhxDiKtiho

[NBER @nberpubs]

Novel incentivized measures of patience and present-focus predict food spending, consumption, food subsidy choices, and food subsidy treatment effects, from @ABrownback, @alexoimas, and @mikeanton13 https://t.co/oTnsUgbOeW

[Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @BeckerFriedman]

NEW: Time Preferences and Food Choice

Read the paper from @ABrownback, @alexoimas (@ChicagoBooth) & @mikeanton13:

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

Time Preferences and Food Choice - tremendous paper by @alexoimas and colleagues. (The @nberpubs this week are amazingly good; they seem to keep getting better. #ThisIsTrueAndNotGettingBetterBias)
https://t.co/BKb51wRvMY

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Agency FTW.
Field experiment by @ABrownback et al delivers healthy food subsidies to low-income families both before and during grocery shopping, and finds more agency leads to significantly increased spend on healthy food: https://t.co/4q7nfauoUl via coauthor @alexoimas

[The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal]

"Healthy food subsidies are more effective when delivered with an enforced waiting period and shopper agency." Just Accepted new paper by Andy Brownback (@ABrownback), Alex Imas (@alexoimas), Michael A. Kuhn (@mikeanton13) https://t.co/N2A1L1eRzw

[Dr. Nathaniel C. Burke @NathanBurkeEcon]

I officially walked for my Ph.D. last month and never made an official announcement. I don't like public celebration but I also know the importance of the visibility of our community accomplishments.

#EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter @firstgendocs #phdchat

[Andy Brownback @ABrownback]

Very cool project that details a historical crime that doesn't get talked about enough and a piece of legislation no one knows about: https://t.co/1RFGUvzX14

[Sera Linardi @seralinardi]

As @BeneDataTrust Director of Policy, Erin Henderlight work w gov to streamline public benefits systems. Join Erin, @PittEcon health economist @Osea82 & @ABrownback https://t.co/sTl8UiXuLw on discussion of SNAP benefits at #DeCent21 Module B Thurs 5 ET.

Registration close 4/13.

[CAASI @GSPIA @CaasiPitt]

Module B discusses resource allocation problems that arise in foster care, reentry (post-incarceration) services, and nutrition aid (SNAP). Presenters include @yanchen @UMICHCS, Alejandro Robinson-Cortés @UofEBusiness, @ABrownback @uawaltoncollege, & @seralinardi @CaasiPitt.

[Andy Brownback @ABrownback]

@jnaecker Thanks, Jeff! And thanks @econimate for making such an awesome, clear summary video.

[econimate @econimate]

Do teacher incentives work?

Research from @ABrownback (@UArkansas) and @SallySadoff (@RadySchool) on the impact of performance-based incentives for college instructors:

https://t.co/fqTikjvAYb

[Sera Linardi @seralinardi]

Announcing program for #DecentralCon2020 @GPSIA Pitt Apr 17-19! https://t.co/vLtGaxMXZs. Foster care, housing, @RefugeesAI, education, targeting. Talks: Tuomas Sandholm @muunver @yanchen @t8el L.Doval @ArnostiNick @EconomicDesign @pauljhealy @ABrownback + Research-Practice mixer

[john_kane_osw @john_kane_osw]

In today's podcast, @ABrownback
and Sally Sadoff join us to discuss their study of how financial incentives to faculty can affect student outcomes. #teaforteaching #losscontracts #EconTwitter

[Matt Knepper @MathKnepper]

Hi #EconTwitter, I am pleased to announce that I am on the job market this year.

My latest working paper, joint with Gordon Dahl @UCSDEcon, is titled, "Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle."

The full paper is available here: https://t.co/Hl5NVuL5pv
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[tylercowen @tylercowen]

For the second year in a row I conclude the most underrated economics Ph.D students are from University of California, San Diego.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

-Haven’t seen or talked to my family 5 years
-Jailed my dad
-My siblings can’t find jobs
-Revoked my passport
-International arrest warrant
-My family can’t leave the country
-Got Death Threats everyday
-Got attacked, harassed
-Tried to kidnap me in Indonesia

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”

#NobelPrize

[Jake Vigdor @JakeVigdor]

In light of the recent suicides of Alan Krueger and Martin Weitzman, economists & other professionals at risk of aging might find insight in this recent letter penned by Princeton professor emeritus Avinash Dixit.

Thread follows.