Very excited to release this paper today. By using a staggered roll-out of heat pumps in the UK, we find that: 1. Heat pumps reduce households’ total energy use by a whopping 40%, and carbon emissions by 36%, evidencing the real-world impact of their superior efficiency over gas boilers.
Nudges only worked in the 2010s @besttrousers.bsky.socialinsights.som.yale.edu/insights/do-...
Two decades ago, Prof. James Choi’s research suggested that automatic enrollment and escalation and could have a sizeable impact on savings. Now he and his co-authors have looked at these programs aga...
Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study 🧵
CALL FOR PAPERS: the Early-Career Behavioral Econ Conf is awesome. I had so much fun when I went in the past. Nice small group who give great feedback Deadline Dec 15 sites.google.com/site/ecbecon... 📉📈#econsky
Nearly a decade ago, IZA World of Labor ("bridges the gap between research and policy") asked me to write a short intro to Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation. Now teamed up with the great Grigory Aleksin (RHUL) for an update. Enjoyed the team work a lot! wol.iza.org/articles/usi...
Even with observational data, causality can be recovered with the help of instrumental variables estimation
www.econometricsociety.org/publications... I expected that the abstract would also be made of only words starting with R, like the title, but no.
Online learning reduced final grades in an introductory college course by half a letter grade compared to in-person learning, say researchers at the University of Tennessee, US Army, and US Military Academy. #econskywww.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
How does online learning compare to in-person learning at the college level?
I have added a number of posters to the behavioural economics starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added too. go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT
Are you also that type of person who always forgets something when packing for travel, and this keeps you nervous until you find out what it is? This time, toothpaste.
