Conference Organizers:
Cuimin Ba, University of Pittsburgh
John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Luca Henkel, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alex Imas, University of Chicago
Andreas Kraft, University of Chicago
Mattie Toma, University of Warwick
Reviewing Committee:
Peter Andre, Goethe University Frankfurt
Kevin He, University of Pennsylvania
Alejandro Martinez-Marquina, University of Southern California
Suanna Oh, Paris School of Economics
The Early Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE) brings together early-career behavioral and experimental economics researchers, providing a platform for them to share their work and receive feedback. ECBE aims to strengthen ties between researchers from different institutions and develop a strong community of behavioral economists. This year’s conference, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, will be held July 9-10 at the University of Chicago.
This conference is by invitation only. If you have any questions or are interested in attending, please email bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
15-minute presentations and 5-minute Q&A
Agenda
Breakfast and Registration
6th Floor Kapani Family Lounge
Welcome Remarks
Session 1: Media and Online Discourse
Session chair: Cuimin Ba, University of Pittsburgh
The Business of the Culture War
Shakked Noy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Customization with AI
Fabian Roeben, University of Cologne
Social Media Comments
Lena Song, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AI Sycophancy and Decisions
John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Break
Session 2: Policy Views and Climate Politics
Session chair: Cuimin Ba, University of Pittsburgh
Bad News and Policy Views
Michael Thaler, University College London
Reaching Across the Aisle: Polarization and Grassroots Climate Mobilization
Lucy Page, University of Pittsburgh
Got Beef with Beef? Large-scale evidence that carbon labels yield limited climate benefits and cause backlash
Lisa Ho, Columbia University
Lunch
First Floor Dining Room
Session 3: Beliefs
Session chair: Luca Henkel, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Do People Hold Economic Expectations?
Luca Michels, University of Bonn
Beliefs About Disability
Mattie Toma, University of Warwick
Recovering Economic Preferences under Behavioral Attenuation Bias
Keyu Wu, University of Zurich
Break
Session 4: Deception and Fairness
Session chair: Luca Henkel, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Excluding Flawed but Useful Information for Fair Allocation Decisions
Yucheng Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
Deception Aversion
Evan Friedman, Paris School of Economics
Equilibrium Neglect and Political Feasibility
Bnaya Dreyfuss, Harvard University Learning
Self-Preserving Redistribution: Global Experimental Evidence
Morten Nyborg Stostad, Norwegian School of Economics
Conference Dinner
By invitation only
Breakfast
6th Floor Kapani Family Lounge
Session 5: Mental Models and Categorization
Session chair: John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
A Criterion of Model Decisiveness
Jeffrey Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Strategically Controlling Worldviews
Cuimin Ba, University of Pittsburgh
Categorical Thinking: Consumer Thresholds and Firm Response
Andreas Kraft, University of Chicago
Break
Session 6: Learning
Session chair: John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Attention and Social Learning
Kevin He, University of Pennsylvania
Robustly Non-Harmful Information for Biased Learners
Malte Kornemann, University of Bonn
Learning and Limitations of Heuristic Pricing: Evidence from Forced Exploration
Avner Strulov Shlain, University of Chicago
Lunch
First Floor Dining Room
Session 7: Commitment, Defaults, and Dynamic Choice
Session chair: Mattie Toma, University of Warwick
State Dependence and Commitment: Experimental Evidence from Crop Insurance in Uganda
Sili Zhang, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Self-Control and Commitment in Consumer Credit Markets
Ke Shi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Like There is No Tomorrow
Alejandro Martinez-Marquina, University of Southern California
Break
Session 8: Gender and Labor Supply
Session chair: Mattie Toma, University of Warwick
A Free Lunch? How Changing Childcare Defaults Increases Parental Labor Supply
Justus Bamert, Princeton University
The Female Labor Supply Constraints of Spousal Jealousy: Experimental Evidence from India
Kailash Rajah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Power of Gender-Diverse Peer Groups: Evidence from a
Multi-Year Field Experiment
Xiaoyue Shan, National University of Singapore