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The Los Angeles Behavioral Economics Laboratory (#LABEL) is a research center dedicated to experimental research on #decisionmaking.

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🇲🇬 More than 600 university students participated in one of the first experimental sessions at MABEL.
Through an interactive protest experiment, we study how people coordinate, react to inequality, and make collective decisions under uncertainty.
🌍Decisions. Policy. Madagascar.

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🌍 An idea in 2022 has now become reality.
We are proud to introduce MABEL, the University Magis Behavioral Lab in Madagascar, developed in collaboration with LABEL and Loyola Behavioral Lab.

📊 MABEL aims to contribute to better public policy and sustainable development.
#MABEL

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🎓 LABEL Behavioral Lab: Experiments with Kids

Our team ran a Contagion Experiment with 3rd & 4th graders at Lycée International de Los Angeles 👧👦

Studying strategic behavior, contagion and cognition.
Amazing engagement from the students!
#BehavioralEconomics #LABEL

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Today at the LABEL ECON 693 Seminar 🎓
Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota): Nature, Nurture and Markets
Daniel Benjamin (UCLA) : Adjusting for Heterogeneity in the Use of Subjective Scales

Thank you to our speakers and to everyone who joined us!
#genetics #Economía #USC

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Final session completed! 📊

We wrapped up the Contagion Network Experiment at the Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA) 🎓

Thanks to the students, faculty, and staff for their enthusiasm and collaboration throughout the project! ✨
#Networks #LABEL #USC

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🎓 LABEL ECON 693

Last week, we welcomed Jason Somerville (UC Santa Barbara) presenting “Understanding Performance Declines.”

A fascinating discussion on cognitive effort and optimization failures.

#usc #DecisionMaking #Economics #SantaBarbara

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🔬 Contagion Experiment at the Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA)

Dynamic networks. Strategic decisions. Real-time social exposure.

Grateful for the engagement and collaboration throughout the sessions.

#ExperimentalEconomics #BehavioralScience #LABEL

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🔬 Pilot complete!

We successfully ran the pilot of our Contagion Network Experiment, studying decision-making under social exposure and dynamic risk.

Full data collection coming soon 🚀

#BehavioralEconomics #ExperimentalEconomics

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🎓 LABEL ECON 693 Seminar!
We were delighted to welcome𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 (𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) for a talk on:
Title: “𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥? 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

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🎓 We kicked off the LABEL Seminar Series with two outstanding talks!
Ignacio Esponda (UC Santa Barbara): Forecast Errors and Forecast Sufficiency Under Ambiguity
Alejandro Martínez Marquina (USC Marshall): Space Exploration
🌟Thank you to our speakers and everyone who joined us

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🚀 Spring semester has begun!

Classes are back, projects are launching, our Seminar starts on Thu Jan 22 with Esponda (UCSB) & Martinez Marquina (USC) join us in person or online at 2pm and 3:15pm. 📍 Kaprielian Hall 319 | Zoom: https://t.co/jwzLKfQsjU

✨ Happy New Year !

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Wonderful visit at the LABEL Lab today! 🎓🔬

Great having students from the Lycée International de Los Angeles join us for a hands-on experiment and a look into our research projects.

Loved their curiosity and questions! ✨

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Our November 2025 Newsletter is out!!!

Take a look at what we’ve been working on these past few months: new team members, future summer school and upcoming projects at LABEL...

Read the full update here: https://t.co/bR0pUfHymu

#BehavioralEconomics #ExperimentalEconomics

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🎓 Final LABEL ECON 693 Seminar of the semester!

Kathleen Ngangoue (UCLA) on AI and access to expert advice, and
Alex Imas (UChicago) on attention, memory & model misspecification.

🌟 Thanks to all speakers and attendees for an amazing semester!

#BehavioralEcon #AIEconomics

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Welcome, Audrey Bousselin! ✨
We’re delighted to have her join us as a Research Associate. Audrey’s work focuses on family economics, education, and child well-being with deep expertise in early childhood and large-scale child surveys.
Happy to have her on board!

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🎓 LABEL Seminar Series

We hosted Xin Jiang (USC) for her seminar “Pinocchio’s Clock.” She shows that longer response times signal higher chances of deception, yet receivers often overtrust slow messages.

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Last week at USC 🎓
• Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University): The Evolution of Preferences through the University Years, Altruism and Risk Preferences.
• Erik Kimbrough (Chapman University): Focal Norms.
Part of our LABEL Seminar Series.
#BehavioralScience #ExperimentalEcon

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🌟 Alumni Spotlight: Sacha Bazzal
From LABEL to London! She holds an MSc in Social Cognition from UCL, where she studied how rewards shape behavior and decision-making. We were happy to have her visit LABEL for lunch last week!
#BehavioralScience #LABELalumni

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USC-LABEL presented at the 2025 LAX Conference at UCLA Anderson 🎓

Monica Vasco: How Adolescents Coordinate Dynamically in Network Games

Malala Rajaona: Not Being Involved: Re-examining the Trolley Dilemma Across the World

Thanks to the organizers for an inspiring event!