Colin Camerer @CFCamerer Twitter profile

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

11 months

Semi-unpopular (and personal) opinion: Essays are not predictive and are one of the strongest ways high SES and privilege infects admissions

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

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The end of race-conscious admissions will create more race-conscious essays. The pressure to for high schoolers to market their race to colleges will flatten their writing into the narrative tropes of a chatbot, writes @matteo_wong :

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“Of Princeton’s 5,300 undergraduates, approximately 930—or 17.5 percent—are recruited players” An amazing stat. Almost 20% of Princeton is admitted by coaches for (mostly) nonspectator sports kids will quit playing when they graduate

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Incredible de facto social science experiment. Collective honking resets red light countdown to more time. Will it reduce honking? I think so

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@Geniusbastard Zendaya is coming for it all

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1/ Totally agree with this. I think there is a strange prejudice in economics that studying sports, movies, game shows etc is not “serious” The truth is that as Ignacio explains, they often provide unusual control and diagnosticity.

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"The Beautiful Dataset"👍🔥

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@stuartbuck1 👇the kids aren’t late, they are doing impromptu Independent Study courses. BIO 101: Introduction to Ants is more important than third semester of REC 213: The Same Old Park

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Omarosa does not seem to do anything. “No one in the comms department knew a random reporter was walking around the West Wing. This is why people think we’re a shit show.”

No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa

The ‘Apprentice’ star has a top salary and a high-ranking job. But when we spent time with her, it was her wedding she was planning.

www.thedailybeast.com

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@CFCamerer

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“[experimental subject] was told she wouldn’t receive payment if she backed out” (This is *precisely* the kind of deprivation of subject’ dignity and autonomy that IRB training is meant to prohibit.) Then DA *calls her* 3-4 times a day. An astonishing transgression

Shane Littrell, PhD 🧠

@MetacogniShane

8 months

So, Ariely mistreated (arguably abused?) study participants and when one of them complained, he tried to pay her off to keep quiet? How is this not a bigger story? How the hell does he still have a career?

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Have always *loathed* the marshmallow test for this reason. It’s a joint measure of desire for marshmallows (or other treats), pure patience and trust in the experimenter SES could affect any of the 3 differently Whenever I teach it @Caltech students quickly point this out

Alireza Soltani

@ali_r_soltani

2 years

"waiting out temptation for a later reward is largely a middle or upper class behavior. If you come from a place of shortages and broken promises, eating the treat in front of you now might be the better bet than trusting there will be more later"

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This is outstanding. “Michael Jordan played 15 years, won 6 championships. That was nine years of failure?” I love how his speculative examples of the sportswriter’s goals are Take care of family Provide a house for them Take care of your parents Immigrant greatness

Emmanuel Acho

@EmmanuelAcho

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There’s no denying Giannis came up short, but this response to “failure” was fascinating. All parents should watch & show their kids.

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5 years

Kids, see what happens when you drop out of college before learning about politics, ethology, evolutionary dynamics, incentives, psychology, and history?

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

5 years

“I think we are moving to a world in which we all become cells in a single organism, where we can communicate automatically and can all work together seamlessly.” - Mark Zuckerberg

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Great analysis. Random punishment snuffs out innovation and creates "learned helplessness"

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1/2 Our brilliant colleague @KirbyKNielsen (AsstProf 2020) just got promoted to tenured Full Prof, 2y ahead of schedule. Here's a hint about why: 1. she writes *perfect* haikus describing papers. That is *not easy* 2. Three @AEAjournals AER papers in 2 years. Different topics.

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@Ziqian_Xia This is mean and unconstructive. The reviewer didn’t like your paper but this language is uncivil and unprofessional. It has nothing to do with you, it’s a reviewer character flaw. Journals should have an editorial layer reviewing the reviews for tone and clarity of comments

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5 years

@jfeldman_epi @JStein_WaPo White male overconfidenxe

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@clairlemon @clairelemon is classic denialist. RTs data on modest support for higher marginal income tax rate, says “hard to believe” then says “happy to be proven otherwise”. Champion self-own

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@sarahcpr Unwilling to accept a peaceful transfer of power

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5 years

Unpopular opinion?. Buttigieg is resume-driven candidate. Life spent ticking boxes. Why work for McKinsey? He says “To learn how money works” truth: build resume, donor Rolodex, tick “pro-business” box. He’s younger, gayer Dem Mitt Romney

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“in 2013 half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a % so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YT systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this “the Inversion.”

Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel

5 years

it's about a lot more than fake accounts but i'm more convinced each day that this @max_read piece will hold up as one of the definitive articles for understanding the modern internet

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*perfect* quote from Betsy Stevenson about well-deserved Claudia Goldin Nobel prize in econ: “The men before her studied work and rarely gave a thought to how the actual food got on the table, clothes on the backs and the children raised.”

Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for women’s role in workplace

The Harvard professor was awarded the Nobel Prize for “groundbreaking research” on women in the labor market.

www.washingtonpost.com

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3 years

One of the great, rare thrills in academia is to be able to recruit a mid-career superstar for our next generation @Caltech . When I’ve told colleagues (who haven’t heard) that Charlie Sprenger is here now, typical reaction is Wow #BehavioralEconomics

The Mechanics of Temptation and Procrastination

New Caltech economist Charlie Sprenger discusses his latest behavioral theories and experiments.

www.caltech.edu

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5 years

from new AEA guidelines on inclusion etc. I have been waiting to hear this for 40 years. better late than never?

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2 years

NEW in J Econ Lit, brilliant review of psychological game theory by Battigalli+Dufwenberg. Love opinionated parts. Imo this is *the* right way to model social emotions…all that’s missing from empirics so far is direct emo measures Ungated here

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1 year

A very good point— younger Dems have never experienced a serious GOP, so they are clear-eyed about now. Also why having so many old Dems in power is a bad idea

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

Check out this exchange with Rep Frost on generational differences among Dems. Younger Dems have processed major traumatic political events largely through social media. And their conception of the GOP is not polluted by nostalgia for bipartisanship:

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All of N Dakota has 16 ICU beds; 14 are full. Almost 1% of population got sick *last week* “The risk level determines what coronavirus-related protocols are in place under the ND Smart Restart Plan. THE GUIDELINES ARE NOT ENFORCED” Like a horror movie

4 COVID-19 records set in North Dakota; Burleigh-Morton active cases at pandemic high

North Dakota health officials on Friday reported daily highs for COVID-19 tests, daily cases, active cases and hospitalizations, along with four new deaths in Morton County. The death toll statewide

bismarcktribune.com

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4 years

Huge pivotal moment for #econtwitter culture and practices. Do not know NBER folks well enough to guess what they’ll do, but would imagine they would have to create a very complicated reason to *not* open attendance, esp given push for inclusion

Johannes Haushofer

@jhaushofer

4 years

Please RT if you agree: This is a great opportunity to make the @nberpubs Summer Institute less clubby. Let's allow anyone to listen?

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2 years

Will someday use this word for word.

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3 months

Fun fact: when given extra testosterone (T), college men get the wrong answer (ball=$.10 in the original version) 15% more often Theory: T creates overconfidence, disables “system 2“ proofreader

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7 years

Superb writing again from @The Economist. Akerlof lemons paper rejected from JPE bc “If this is correct, economics would be different.”

The Economist

@TheEconomist

7 years

Akerlof's "The Market for Lemons" was rejected three times. Then he won a Nobel prize

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5 months

“It is not intuitive to an undergraduate that an economics major is not sufficient preparation for an economics doctoral program”

Sam Thorpe

@samthorpe__

5 months

@SoumayaKeynes R:e your reference at the end of the piece to socioeconomic diversity in the field - you should absolutely check out @annastansbury 's work on this issue if you haven't already! Her recent paper in the JEP with Robert Schultz is fantastic - .

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The oped is poorly informed garbage. Common conflation of behavioral economics and behavioral *science* E.g. “Behavioral economics is at the center of the so-called replication crisis”. False Author: “Leif Weatherby ( @leifweatherby ) is an associate professor of German at NYU”

Barry Ritholtz

@Ritholtz

6 months

This @nytopinion piece on Behavioral Economics failed to convince me BeFi is junk science, but I am lol biased (+ I don't spend time on replication issues). Curious as to what the BeFi professionals think about this criticism -- is this a mostly critique of the academic aspects

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@GBBranstetter @Hegemommy Depriving some innocent children of a 2nd legal parent. Family values!

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@emilyjanefox Hard to imagine a clearer case of flight risk....fake passport with KSA address‽

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8 years

amazing: human-exhaled chemicals in movie theaters can predict scene features (injury, hiding, mystery) @SciReports

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4 years

Please apply! working on habit, salience, supernormalization, intersections of economics, psychology, neuroscience, and machine learning with large behavioral datasets

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@Caltech

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Caltech is doubling the number of students hosted in the WAVE Fellows program (thanks to support from several Institute research centers). WAVE aims to increase the participation of underrepresented students in #STEM doctoral studies.

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7 years

1/ Australia gun buyback cut suicide 75%. Why? Limiting access to guns makes each attempt more likely to fail...

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8 years

It's not "questionable". It is unquestionably NOT a blind trust. MSM don't impose misleading false balance here.

Blind trust - Wikipedia

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8 years

Donald Trump's questionable 'blind trust' setup just got more questionable:

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3 years

My heart goes out to poor PhD students and jr faculty that will get roped into listening and nodding patiently during this *5 day visit*

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

3 years

ANNOUNCEMENT: I head next week to @UChicago for 5 days (Nov. 8-12) at the request of its storied Department of Economics to present our theory that all of economics is based on the wrong version of the differential calculus. Importantly, this error afflicts Inflation & the CPI.

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Ran into @caltech alum household finance wizard @jialanw at NBER Me: What's new Prof Wang? Prof Wang: Oh, I just got tenure...*today* 🥳

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4 years

A ray of local sunshine in these awful times: the talented #behavioraleconomics and experimental economics wizard Charlie Sprenger is joining us in HSS @Caltech

Charles Sprenger

Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Cited by 6,942 - Behavioral Economics - Experimental Economics

scholar.google.com

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4 years

instant classic from Joel Sobel. He carefully dissects how to define lying, deception, and damage. It is rare to find such a profound surgical theorist mind combined with brilliantly clear writing

Lying and Deception in Games | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 128, No 3

This article proposes definitions of lying, deception, and damage in strategic settings. Lying depends on the existence of accepted meanings for messages but does not require a model of how the...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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@CFCamerer

4 years

Princeton w $25B endowment acting like a hand-to-mouth small business. Plenty of flexibility in law to raise % of spend from endowment. What is an endowment for?

J.D. Schnepf

@jd_schnepf

4 years

Princeton University just announced “difficult reductions” in light of coronavirus pandemic. These include: -“Suspending faculty and staff salary increases, except where required by previous agreement”

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I once gave a seminar at a fancy place in a new pair of jeans with the sizing strip on the thigh still attached and visible. Nobody told me until later. Not ashamed, built absent-minded professor cred

jentleman and a scholar 🐱

@philoso_foster

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update: a student has brought it to my attention that I am wearing two different shoes

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Bob Aumann : "Behavioral economics is what makes economic theory work"

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#behavioralscience Twitter. NBC has a show scheduled for fall “The Irrational” based on Prof Dan Ariely studies & life (IMDB lists him as a writer) NBC says “The NBC drama is based on Dan Ariely’s novel Predictably Irrational” Novel?

The Irrational (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb

The Irrational (TV Series 2023– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

www.imdb.com

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Women will compete as frequently as men in head-to-head tournaments for vouchers for their kids' books #behavioraleconomics

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NEW @NatureHumBehav study of direct classroom replication of centralized buyer-seller trade ("invisible hand") and ultimatum games @caltech release here

Evidence of general economic principles of bargaining and trade from 2,000 classroom experiments

Nature Human Behaviour - Camerer et al. use standardized experiments across thousands of students to demonstrate empirical regularities in two-person bargaining and trading in markets. Bargaining...

www.nature.com

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5 years

Nobel prize prediction this year: Paul Milgrom. Ticks every box: huge influence in game theory, contracting, math econ. Guided very tricky design of US incentive auction, many more. Economics at both its most scientific and useful.

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@chadloder MD from Sierra Leone (w Africa) was on NPR the other day mentioning how Paul Farmer was leading efforts in Massachusetts based on protocol he’d learned in Sierra Leone

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Love this story, it is so @UChicago

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terrific meta-analysis of field experimental tests of the "contact hypothesis" in existing groups (working together in a group reduces prejudice), from @gjclochard . Mean effect size is d=.329 and varies across studies (as usual) and predicted covariates.

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@CFCamerer

8 years

"establishment against white nationalism". Fixed it for you

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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With Priebus and Bannon, Donald Trump pits establishment against populism at the top of his White House team

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3 years

Found someone who ignores sunk costs! $150 per concert ticket, $500 for a suite, but won’t see the concert because it requires a $40 test #BehavioralEconomics

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

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“If you don’t like it - you can leave.” This is perfection...

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D Kahneman is savage (on investing confidence) "one exec I dined with...told me, with a trace of defensiveness, “I have done v well for the firm, and no one can take that away from me.” I thought, privately: Well, I took it away from you this morning."

Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence (Published 2011)

It afflicts us all. Because surety in our own judgments is part of being human.

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NEW @oyebolaoo Outstanding research is a big win for the contact hypothesis: Striking, broadly positive results from Nigerian youth service inter-ethnic contact, increases both national and ethnic pride and other measures World Bank report is ungated

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4 years

Great news: “We encourage authors not to think of a typical Econometrica/QE/TE paper as a 30-40pp paper, but rather aim for 20-30pp. We will encourage reviewers to be restrained in their requests for additional analyses and results that increase length.”

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new JPE: Micro, our distillation of many #behavioraleconomics regularities from 21 measures —> 6 components @PietroOrtoleva @chapman_econ @snowberg YouGov representative US sample Special thx to tireless editor @Econ_4_Everyone

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A conservative judge ( Posner's) devastating take on why voter ID laws are evil

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@kaitlancollins “If you are going to actually *be the President* you should be prepared to take questions from reporters...” your goalpost moving is showing MSM. Do better

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Here are 2 state of the art papers on dimension reduction of #behavioraleconomics psych variables. First is heavily on judgment bias, second (ours w @snowberg et al) on preferences.

Merle van den Akker, PhD

@MoneyMindMerle

3 years

The field of #behavioraleconomics keeps growing, so does the number of #biases we associate with it. We currently have over 180 biases in the #bias codex. But does that mean anything? Is that useful to the progression of #behavioralscience ? #psychology

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@RonnyJackson4TX TWO spelling errors in one tweet, both medical terms. Is this person really an MD? Asymptomatic, comorbidities [+ he does have comorbidities—obesity, recent mini-stroke, plus age]

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5 years

Starting it this year! Surveys, experimental design, admin data, etc. A course in how to *produce* data

Francesco Trebbi

@xftrebbi

5 years

I'm convinced Economics departments should add a survey design & methodology course to their graduate programs. Add it as part of the toolbox, on top of Econometrics & program evaluation courses.

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Favorite part: COS Kelly asked Trump “how much the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff earns. Trump guessed $5 million”. (Actual=$200k) Has no idea of the details of government service (and financial sacrifice by many)

Josh Dawsey

@jdawsey1

6 years

NEW w/ @damianpaletta : Trump has begun telling advisers that the deficit needs to be cut, but he continues to want pricey programs -- and has largely avoided the issue for two years. "The people want their money," he told Sen. Corker over golf last year.

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3 years

Beautiful example of spillover effects.

NBER

@nberpubs

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When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community, from @jessiehandbury and Sarah Moshary

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Cool #behavioraleconomics salience result: NBA team T who acquired players overweight how those players performed when playing against T !

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1/ Econ Nobel predictions: @RThaler , fingerprints on all areas of #behavioraleconomics + colossal impact of Nudge

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Big paper. Sad it takes 7 yrs to publish such a strong paper. In gen science would have gotten to high-impact publication in 6-9 *months* max

Daniel Reck

@danhreck

4 years

Thrilled to see this article with @jacobsgoldin finally in print! (first draft was in 2013). The paper proposes a simple framework for learning preferences from choices when choices are subject to a framing effect. Here's a short summary:

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@CFCamerer

3 years

Shockingly wrong: the study of incentives is everywhere in social science, in system (mechanism) design, and some natural sciences (eg animal reward learning, acculturation)

François Chollet

@fchollet

3 years

Incentive engineering may be the most important yet underlooked field of study

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6 years

Disagree. Econ is by far the most closed of fields I know well (psych, neuro, anthro, CS, bio). Fact that game theory, behavioral, market design are called "insurrections" vs "innovations" is informative

Beatrice Cherrier

@Undercoverhist

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Al Roth's conclusion @ #ASSA2018 : the open culture of academic economics is what enabled his career: intellectual immigrants and insurrections are allowed. Let's treasure and preserve it

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Coase : “you can’t put a little measure into someone’s brain and read off utility...” We basically did (Lots of other decision neuroscience too, eg @knutson_brain brain-behavior prediction)

Neural Activity Reveals Preferences without Choices

(May 2014) - We investigate the feasibility of inferring the choices people would make (if given the opportunity) based on their neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged...

www.aeaweb.org

Koenfucius 🔍

@koenfucius

5 years

Ronald Coase and Gary Becker debate whether it makes sense to assume people are rational utility-maximizers—splendid little video: HT @davdittrich

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Correct. Average folks don’t realize how rare high-achieving STEM is for US citizens compared to Europe, Asia, S America

joshua

@sellnyknicksnow

4 years

@m_clem @prchovanec It’s despicable and monstrously stupid. We should be tripling and quadrupling these visas. Even if less from China, more from India and Pakistan, etc. These are future job creators and inventors of life saving drugs we are expelling.

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Footnote 2 says half of NBER members come from 12 faculties, and half from 5 PhD programs. Greater concentration based on *earlier* selection and achievements (PhD vs faculty position) seems odd. Imagine if half of NBA players came from 5 high schools and half from 12 colleges

Fulya Ersoy

@FulyaErsoy6

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Check out our new working paper: In an experiment with journal editors, we show that papers whose authors are from top institutions get a positive boost when evaluated non-blind rather than blind. This is especially true for papers of male authors.

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Trump goes to Tokyo, refuses to eat sushi (“fucking raw fish”), first meal is McDonalds

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7 years

Dinosaurs worry that meteors are cheapening their ecosystem

One Perfect Shot

@OnePerfectShot

7 years

Academy members worry that Netflix is cheapening the Oscars.

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3 years

“However, our analysis suggests that despite being the cheapest of the samples, MTurk offers a false economy. While almost 50% more expensive, Prolific observations offers substantially greater infer- ential power by reducing noise.” Useful careful analysis. No more MTurk?

Dennis A V Dittrich

@davdittrich

3 years

The Experimenters’ Dilemma: Inferential Preferences Over Populations If you can't go to the lab @prolific is better than MTurk #ExperimentalEcon

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Colin Camerer

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@KFILE Bezos: “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out”

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@CFCamerer

4 years

Ouch. Ramadan fasting isn’t “general enough” but MTurk subjects are? This grounds for rejection is completely wrongheaded. Often a “special case” (= 1.8B people!) is very diagnostic scientifically

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4 years

Actually it is perfectly rational #behavioraleconomics

status annoyicus

@medburnbook

4 years

give me a horror story from your specialty in five words or less

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

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This was so fun, thanks everyone!

Alex Krumer

@AlexKrumer

26 days

Congratulations to Colin Camerer ( @CFCamerer ) for winning the first Simon Rottenberg award for his contributions in economics by means of sports data. The shakehand in the trophy represents the shakehand between sports and economics.

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Important paper. How they got there*: Jessica and Michael are married (financial economist & memory scientist). Jessica kept proposing intuitive models until Michael heard one and said Yes, that’s how memory works. Ideal interdisciplinary synthesis *as told by MK

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D

@KwekuOA

8 months

A new QJE paper applies a theory of human memory to financial decisions: past events can influence present beliefs, even when they are not relevant. Therefore, investors are affected by early life experience, financial crises, and fear. #memoryandfinance

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

2 years

Big news for @caltech Social Sciences: the brilliant new economic theory (and antitrust!) PhD Peter Caradonna is joining us as Asst Prof in the fall. A huge talent. Peter’s not on Twitter but *is* here

Peter Caradonna

Assistant Professor

www.petercaradonna.com

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@CFCamerer

3 years

@ScarletSijia Consume (college) vs produce (PhD) is THE Big Pivot. Like enjoying cooking school vs opening a restaurant

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@CFCamerer

1 year

“The original effect is psychologically implausible” is a courageous thing for a young scholar to write I totally agree with her by the way, based on her maximum positive control. Recalling being dirty —> more cleansing prime d=.51 (Orig) Hearing about networking effect d=.98

Experimental Philosophy

@xphilosopher

1 year

I don't think that @ZoeZiani has gotten enough credit for this beautiful attempted replication of Casciaro, Gino & Kouchaki, 2014 In retrospect, I'm very struck by the prescience she shows in her final paragraph

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@CFCamerer

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RIP to a fount of wisdom, an amazing person “We thought the probability was 0.2,” Treisman told the Philadelphia Inquirer after Dr. Kahneman’s [Nobel] award was announced.

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@CFCamerer

5 months

Massive swings from Oct 23 to now in 2.5 months +15 to +55 Black -12 to +19 18-29yo

Will Stancil

@whstancil

5 months

Don't look now but economic approval is starting to shift towards Biden a bit in the YouGov polls. Vibecovery still underway?

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

4 years

👏👏👏👏 Q: how do we ensure jr ECRs get their share of attention? Idea: have pairs of talks, where senior researcher is paired with jr researcher. Like how musical groups with market power choose an opening act they want their audience to see. *many* bands broke out this way

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

@jayvanbavel

4 years

Proposal for colloquia/Brown bag talks during a pandemic: Everyone records a 45min talk & puts it on Youtube. Departments can check them out & select those they like. Then they show it during their colloquium hour & invite speakers to do Q&A. No travel, no cost, no risk.

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@CFCamerer

5 months

Great example of where a small attention tax (use pager not text) reduces wasteful comms

Nikhil Krishnan

@nikillinit

5 months

good NPR episode about a hospital that tried to replace pagers with encrypted text messaging and failed basically the encrypted texts meant the friction was so low to get a consult that people started bombarding the on-call residents and they essentially stopped responding to

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@CFCamerer

5 years

Isn’t the space constraint endogenous? Why not expand space to publish more papers *or* fix space turn to format used in many sciences where the gist of paper is say 7000 words, and details many readers are not interested (I conjecture) in go into online Methods Appendix

David Deming

@ProfDavidDeming

5 years

2nd - I was not prepared for how high the bar is at AEJ: Applied. Our space constraint and the quality of submissions means I am rejecting some truly excellent papers. 5/x

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@CFCamerer

7 years

Rational expectations pioneer John Muth in 1984: "really incredible" so little attention paid to cognitive limits #behavioraleconomics

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@CFCamerer

6 years

@chrisgeidner @SeanMcElwee @samswey “Once-aloof” is highbrow headline writer’s way of describing Trump hardcore fans’ racist view of Obama as uppity Negro. Are GWBush, BClinton, Reagan aloof?

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

2 years

Unbelievably wonderful

a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore

@steamedhamms

2 years

this is extraordinary footage

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

4 years

huge congratulations to brilliant psychologist @elkeweber for election to National Academy of Sciences. Now please weaponize behavioral science to save the planet from climate change. Thanks in advance!

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@CFCamerer

2 years

NEW We are on a hiring spree @caltech in Social & Decision Neuroscience Seeking a Postdoc to study perception & decision about supernormal stimuli with links to economics, politics, marketing etc. Hard deadline for applications 1 March 2022. RT please

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

8 years

Trump confuses climate change and clean air

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

8 years

"Clean air is vitally important," Trump says about climate change. Says he is keeping "an open mind."

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

3 years

@arindube Am seriously thinking about doing an experiment at live AEA where confederate grad students have lanyards with different school affiliations (match students on looks, clothes, etc) and use hidden cameras to measure how people react to the school status on lanyards

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

8 years

Useful for textbook illustration of apparent price-fixing. Cannot possibly be cost-driven (and no price cuts)

Ninja Economics

@NinjaEconomics

8 years

Price of insulin sold by two different companies (there are two lines here) h/t @kamens .

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

9 months

Parkour catch. Seems impossible

BaseballHistoryNut

@nut_history

9 months

Masato Akamatsu makes an insane catch. Arguably the greatest catch ever

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@CFCamerer

7 years

Trump in book: “I had 0 borrowings from [my father’s] estate. . . . I give you my word.” Under oath: “I think it was like in the $9M range.”

Robert Samuels

@newsbysamuels

7 years

Here is a great @Fahrenthold and Bob O'Harrow story about one time Trump had to testify under oath:

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

4 years

Cognitive scientists on here, what do you make of this? Have not read it yet. Am curious because there is a rise in economics papers about concepts that have been studied in psychology for ages.

NBER

@nberpubs

4 years

The concept of cognitive uncertainty unifies a range of behavioral anomalies in choice under risk, choice under ambiguity, belief updating, and expectations about economic variables, from Benjamin Enke and Thomas Graeber

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Colin Camerer

@CFCamerer

6 years

This is *really* dirty because of urgency. WH is just trying to run down the clock. And: Why is Ross afraid of a depo if he can defend citizenship question as he says? (Everyone knows the answer)

Axios

@axios

6 years

The Trump administration has asked a judge to delay the deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who is under scrutiny over his motives for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

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