Behavioural Science Uncovered
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Social Media and Job Market Success with Yan Chen
In this episode, we talk with Yan Chen about her working paper "Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter," coauthored with Jingyi Qiu, Alan Cohn, and Alvin Roth. The paper…
The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income with Eva Vivalt
In this episode, we dive into the study "The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income" with one of its authors, Eva Vivalt. Join us as Eva takes us behind the scenes of an ambitious experiment…
Lying and Memory Lapses with Marie-Claire Villeval
In this episode, we speak with Marie-Claire Villeval about her paper, "Unethical Amnesia Responds More to Instrumental Than to Hedonic Motives," co-authored with Fabio Galeotti and Charlotte Saucet.…
Designing Information Provision Experiments with Chris Roth
In this episode, we talk with Chris Roth from the University of Cologne about his paper "Designing Information Provision Experiments". In this paper, Chris and his co-authors review the literature on…
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work with Lise Vesterlund
In this episode, we talk with Lise Vesterlund about her book “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work”, co-authored with Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, and Laurie Weingart. The book…
Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue? with Matt Lowe
In this episode, we talk with Matt Lowe about his randomised controlled trial, "Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue?", co-authored with Deivis Angeli. The research examines whether tweets about racial…
The Curious Culture of Economic Theory with Ran Spiegler
In this episode, we talk with Ran Spiegler about his book "The Curious Culture of Economic Theory". The book is a collection of essays about how the professional culture of economics shapes the way…
Team incentives and escape rooms with Simeon Schudy
In this episode, we talk with Simeon Schudy about his working paper "The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks", co-authored with Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe…
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility with Marta Serra-Garcia
In this episode, we talk with Marta Serra-Garcia Marta Serra-Garcia about her American Economic Review paper "Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment,"…
Cash Transfers & Psychotherapy with Johannes Haushofer
In this episode, we talk with Johannes Haushofer about his paper “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being” co-authored with…
Social Learning with Ben Golub
In this episode, we talk with Ben Golub about his paper “Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning” co-authored with Arun Chandrasekhar and He Yang. This paper studies how signaling, and…
Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms with Shengwu Li
In this episode we talk with Shengwu Li about his paper Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms . In this paper Shengwu introduces the notion of an "obviously dominant strategies", which describes a…
Self Persuasion with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi
In this episode we talk with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi about their paper Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions. In this paper Peter and Egon…
Economic Behaviour and Genetic Makeup with Pietro Biroli
In this episode, we talk to Pietro Biroli from the University of Bologna about his paper ”Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance Influence Smoking after a Health Shock”. In this…
How to Change with Katy Milkman
In this episode, we talk to Katy Milkman from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania about some of the research that led to the production of her recent book, How to Change. Throughout…
Lapse-Based Insurance with Daniel Gottlieb
In this episode we talk to Daniel Gottlieb from LSE about his paper Lapse-Based Insurance . In this paper Daniel studies why customers lapse on their life insurance payments and how this is related…
Case-Based Decision Theory and Maxmin EU with Non-Unique Prior with Itzhak Gilboa
In this episode, we talk with Itzhak Gilboa, professor of Economics at the HEC Paris and Tel-Aviv University, and holder of the AXA Chair in Decision Sciences. We will talk about the contrast…
Incentivised Elicitation of Private Information with Aurélien Baillon
In this episode we talk to Aurélien Baillon from Erasmus University Rotterdam about his papers Bayesian Markets to Elicit Private Information and Simple Bets to Elicit Private Signals. In this work…
The Dynamics of Discrimination with Aislinn Bohren and Alex Imas
In this episode, we have a power couple joining us. We talk with Aislinn Bohren from the University of Pennsylvania and Alex Imas from the Chicago Booth School of Business about their joint paper…
How Incentives Can Change What We Believe with Sandro Ambuehl
In this episode, which forms part of a series on ethics in behavioural science research, we talk with Sandro Ambuehl from the University of Zürich about his paper “An Offer You Can’t Refuse?…
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Behavioural Science Uncovered has published 38 episodes since October 2019, covering topics in Education.
Behavioural Science Uncovered is currently declining with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 34m.
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