My student Michael Cuna is on the econ job market this year. He has an excellent paper showing the impact of the hidden curriculum on educational outcomes, particularly in the case of first-gen students. The paper also demonstrates the potential for AI tools to close these gaps.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me or the rest of the committee if you have any questions.
I’m excited to share my job market paper for the 2025-2026 market!
In a real-effort experiment, participants working solely for money completed 23% more tasks than those offered the same monetary reward plus a charitable incentive (p < 0.02) 🤯
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I'm on the academic job market!
My research examines the implications of exclusionary environments for individuals' careers, team performance, and organizations—with a focus on knowledge work.
In my JMP, I study how sexual misconduct affects scientific production.
📣 Pre-doc opportunity!
Opportunity to work on projects on behavioral economics, with a focus on information design, attention and AI. Apply to join @RadySchool@UCSD!
@econ_ra
https://t.co/gH8s8WpCRw
Does gender diversity in peer groups benefit performance?
I ran a 7-year field experiment with 3,000+ students to find out
Key findings: As gender diversity increases
– Course grades in short & longer run⬆️
– Dropout rates⬇️
– Performance inequality in groups⬇️
Details below🧵
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences,” by Exley (@christine_exley), Hauser, Moore (@MollyMoorePlz), and Pezzuto (@john_pezzuto): https://t.co/xmmtyc3EhW
What can institutions do to improve minority achievements in higher education? In a new paper led by the incredible @KEndevelt, and co-supervised with @eranh75_eran, we test a light-touch intervention to foster belonging
Open science practices (like posting data and pre-registering studies) are on the rise in the social sciences! https://t.co/EG5IuBnIMa New in @NatureComms by @FergJoel and others
As part of Blindness Awareness Month this October, I’m participating in the #ShareYourVision campaign. I have Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), which causes me to gradually lose my vision. You can learn more about my story here:
https://t.co/OtsAGHOWZQ
@FightBlindness#EconTwitter
@vlasceanu_mada I guess it's a chicken and the egg problem, but it also feels uncomfortable, to have private companies intentionally try to shift cultural norms across countries.
@vlasceanu_mada I guess my question is, should the search engines be representative of the internet they're searching? Is there evidence that they are not doing that?
What drives generosity? Join #ASSA2022 session to learn more!
On January 7, 12:15PM EST
Great work by I. Almas, A. Cappelen, E. Sorensen, B. Tungodden @NHHEcon,
J.Mollerstrom,@AvnerShlain & @DTaubinsky, @LauraKGee & M. Shreck,
@christine_exley,@john_pezzuto, O.Hauser & M.Moore
@nickchk Apparently! Sorry, I can't be more helpful without recreating the error. Does anything change if you change the tempReport line to `tempReport <- tempdir()`?