Peter Hans Matthews

Dana Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Fulbright-Aalto Distinguished Chair (2023/4) at Aalto University/HGSE. He/him. @PHMinVT@econtwitter

[Middlebury Economics @middecon]

In just a few short days, 400 students, faculty, staff, parents, alums/donors have already signed a petition to restore the retirement benefits @Middlebury plans to claw back, despite decades of repeated promises. Add your name! https://t.co/ZJM2e3FwyO

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

I was never all that active, but last post on this platform for a while.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Congratulations, Amanda. And what distinguished company.

[Middlebury Economics @middecon]

@middecon @Middlebury's own @AmandaGregg711 has been awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. A wonderful and well-deserved honor ... but we're not surprised! Bravo, AG!

https://t.co/Vj1okaywNg

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Lucky world! @middecon will now hire in macro-environmental or environmental with macro as a teaching field. Generous active colleagues who live and work in an idyllic setting.

Read current chair @AndreaRobbett's list, below, and apply here:

https://t.co/KB67l8zwZe

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

It's also the first paper to list @Middlebury's own Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and Environment as an affiliation.

Look for the team's next big(get) project, an information provision experiment based on a SOEP Innovation Sample.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

We know that crises can reduce cognitive bandwidth, but what about "moral bandwidth"?

https://t.co/aCHpNJjQZh

In this case of the German response to COVID, the answer seems to be no.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

This is the first collaboration of a cross-national, cross-displinary team including @middecon's Julia Berazneva and @Middlebury psychologist and provost (!) Michelle McCauley, ad well as @DanielGraeber and @SabineZinn1 of SOEP @DIW_Berlin_en.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

I had a lot of fun collaborating on this with @AndreaRobbett and our shared thesis student, Henry Walsh @middecon @Middlebury. Thanks to the organizers of the @PNASNexus special feature.

One striking result: the headline result is driven by Republicans.

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”

[Marko Terviö @MarkoTervio]

Vow. ChatGPT o1-preview just aced my Intermediate Microeconomics exams. It performed at the 98-99th percentile student level.
v4 performed like a median student in 3/2023,
v3.5 flunked badly in 12/2022 (though it did pass the Turing test as an unprepared student).

1/4

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

I love that @MiettinenTopi and organizers are building bridges at the ESA European conference.

[Topi Miettinen @MiettinenTopi]

Are you interested in how #behavioral #economics and randomized controlled trials can inform public #policy its various domains?

“Behavioral Economics in Action: Shaping Public Policy"-workshop is taking place this Thursday, September 5th, 2024, at the Helsinki City Hall.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Very interesting ... if a little ominous.

[Erik Wengström @ErikWengstrom]

Do lab participants understand the incentives they face? Toke Fosgaard and I argue that confusion should not be discarded as a driver of behavior. Without proper control treatments and robust measures of misperceptions, conclusions risk being speculative.
https://t.co/OmKKtjK79o

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

@HelsinkiGSE @KristiinaHuttu2 @AaltoBIZ Congratulations, @KristiinaHuttu2!

[Middlebury Economics @middecon]

Read all about it! Read all about it!

Thanks to the efforts of @middecon colleague @D_Munro_Econ, we have an annual newsletter!

Vol. 1 is sure to become a collector's item:

https://t.co/5pugpalBHY

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

@EJ_RES @JanStuhler @santavir1 @RoyalEconSoc @OUPEconomics Congratulations, @santavir1 (Torsten).

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

This is a wonderful initiative.

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Congratulations, @MiettinenTopi, on an intriguing - and topical - theory paper!

[Topi Miettinen @MiettinenTopi]

Very pleased to see this finally out! It has been a long and fascinating journey. A topical article now that Hungary holds the EU presidency. But maybe even more so before and after, when Hungary does not hold it, as the article illustrates.
https://t.co/WtTj00I5wj

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

The deadlineto submit papers to ESA Europe is drawing nigh – July 8th, to be precise. Come to hear and share world class experimental research, stay for the food, design and sauna!

https://t.co/p8zMiGFqmy

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Finland swims against the European Parliamentary tides!

https://t.co/rcyn0yifJj

[Peter Hans Matthews @PHMinVT]

Great post-doc opportunity!

[Erik Wengström @ErikWengstrom]

Postdoc opening at Hanken, Helsinki GSE - great research environment in a beautiful city!

Postdoctoral researcher in behavioral and experimental economics / Postdoktoral forskare i beteendeekonomi och experimentell ekonomi https://t.co/uEkP7j8cJq