Dr Wing Hsieh

Economist | Behavioural scientist | Strategist

[Robert Metcalfe @RDMetcalfe]

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨

The 2025 Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) conference is scheduled for September 18-19, 2025 at The University of Chicago.

✨ Keynotes include:
Leonardo Bursztyn (UChicago)
Zoe Cullen (Harvard)
Michael Kremer (UChicago)

🌟 Bonus: The Science of Philanthropy Initiative and AFE conferences will run back-to-back, with Michael Kremer delivering a shared keynote on Sept. 18.

📢 Abstract submissions are open—Ph.D. students & junior faculty are especially encouraged to join!

🗓 Deadline: May 9, 2025
💻 Submit your abstracts here: https://t.co/D0XcsNlKe8

@Econ_4_Everyone and I can't wait to see you in Chicago!

@UChi_Economics @UChicago @ColumbiaSIPA @zoebcullen

#afe2025 #FieldExperiments #AcademicTwitter #Economics #econtwitter

[Henning Hermes @henninghermes]

📣 Final reminder: Please don't forget to submit to our Special Issue on Field Experiments in the EER!

Deadline: 31st of December ⏰

Guest editors: @lergetporer, @BelotMichele, Frauke Peter, @SimonWiederhold & myself

Reach out if you have any questions!

[Dr Wing Hsieh @HsiehWing]

Creating impact needs deliberate effort through scaling, dissemination and knowledge translation.

[BehaviourWorks Australia @BehaviourWorksA]

"If you really want to have an impact with your intervention, you need to think about how to get it out there," said @HsiehWing in this short video. The video provides a snapshot of the 12th chapter of our new book, Inspiring Change: How to influence behaviour for a better world.

Some examples of how to make your interventions impactful include scaling, disseminating information, or knowledge translations.

Inspiring Change, available for order now: https://t.co/JI2rlzr3k0

@MonashPub

#MakeChangeHappen, contact us about partnering on your project or explore our courses.

#BehaviouralScience #BeSci #SBC #BehaviourChange #BehavioralScience

[A/Prof Sjaan Koppel (she/her) @SjaanKoppel]

What are the pros and cons of using rideshare services? We are exploring this in an online survey. Please complete the survey and share it with your network: https://t.co/ze6IqOwvE1

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

**New Paper Alert**
Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to policymaking and scientific knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood.
We provide insights on both the demand and supply sides in a new working paper, available here: https://t.co/seDZXGNj5X

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

Calling all field experimenters, including academics, policy types, and industry folks. I am happy to announce that our 2025 Advances with Field Experiments conference will be held Sept. 18th and 19th at the University of Chicago. 

We have three fantastic keynotes: #LeoBursztyn @zoebcullen, and #MichaelKremer.  @RDMetcalfe and I cannot wait to host you all next year. 

Details here:  https://t.co/pqlxDvkBNt

[A/Prof Sjaan Koppel (she/her) @SjaanKoppel]

Please share

@MUARCresearch is conducting an online survey to understand attitudes towards rideshare services (e.g., Uber, etc.) (MUHREC ID 45565).

The survey will take about 20 minutes to complete.

https://t.co/ze6IqOwvE1

[MonashGFV @MonashGFV]

If you work with people experiencing #ElderAbuse, we want to hear from you. Please complete this short survey to inform future Australian policy and practice: https://t.co/i3IPjh5Q92

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

@DrDanaSuskind and I have recently argued that every organization should have a scale unit https://t.co/yA4db82SkY
This is because the synergies can create a recipe to avoid many of the scale-up problems that I discuss in the Voltage Effect.

Bell Labs once housed both the "discoverers" and the "scalers" together. Are there any good examples of success today? I suspect that with outsourcing much of R&D, this is less likely in today's large company, to their demise.

[Kate Fitz-Gibbon @Kate_FitzGibbon]

We have released two guidance summaries as part of our recent research on perpetrator engagement in behaviour change programs.

👉🏼 Read our Research to Practice Guidance here: https://t.co/YwDxEgWK6M

👉🏼 Read our Research to Policy guidance here: https://t.co/o4Z1wdfrtu

[Kate Fitz-Gibbon @Kate_FitzGibbon]

Released today:
This report presents findings from Australia’s largest study of men’s engagement with behaviour change programs.

Co-authored with @jasminelmcgowan @HelpsCJ @brittanylralph. Extremely grateful to partner orgs for their support & @VicGovAu for funding this study.

👉🏼 Read our report here: https://t.co/lSVW6vDj0S

[Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) @ESRIDublin]

"The key aspects of behaviour change that crop up in different theoretical models are; making it easy, making it social."

♻ Dr @_ShaneTimmons, Senior Research Officer at the ESRI, provides insights for @RTEBrainstorm on Ireland's Deposit Return Scheme:

https://t.co/4R0pFZhBs1

[Heather Douglas @HDouglasLaw]

For those interested in more detail about the #sexual #strangulation research from @leah_ss, Robin Fitzgerald and I reported in the Conversation, you can read the full article here #openaccess : https://t.co/QT000kTZCY

[Dr Wing Hsieh @HsiehWing]

@DrLisaWheildon @lexhortal

[Dr Wing Hsieh @HsiehWing]

@ronchuli @ana_gram_ @betsylevyp @DrLisaWheildon looks like a paper you might be interested in.

[Dr Wing Hsieh @HsiehWing]

I look forward the Behavioral Scientist book list every year - this year it turns out I've contributed to two books on the list! Thanks @dilipsoman @UofT_BEAR @BehaviourWorksA for the opportunity.

[Behavioral Scientist @behscientist]

Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2024

https://t.co/kNldqmqsVm

[University of Toronto Press @utpress]

What Works, What Doesn’t (and When): Case Studies in Applied Behavioral Science edited by @dilipsoman is on the @behscientist’s Summer Book List 2024!

See the list: https://t.co/VV4SdY6Vsf

[MonashGFV @MonashGFV]

Do you have suggestions for how #DFV services should seek feedback from clients? If so, we want to hear from you. Register for a workshop here: https://t.co/sSMzZN567n

[MonashGFV @MonashGFV]

Have you accessed a #DFV service in Victoria? We want to hear from you about how clients can provide feedback to make services better

[Dr Gemma Hamilton @DrGemmaHamilton]

Hello! I'm keen to hear about victim-survivors' experiences and perceptions of police interviews in sexual offence cases in Australia.

Please share and feel free to get in touch if you're interested in being interviewed for the project.