I demand they test against the counterfactual. If they put this question in, they owe it to us to test their predictive validity.
Link to the chatper is here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
In the excellent new textbook edited by Cass Sunstein and Lucia Reisch, we have a chapter on definitions of economic wealth and inequality in the context of behavioral science. We also include a framework for conceptualizing behavioral interventions aimed at improving outcomes.
RAND is hiring social and behavioral scientists to fill some really exciting positions (LA, DC, PGH, Boston), and offering exceptional salary+benefits. Would highly recommend this - RAND was an extremely valuable experience early in my career. rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
When you get more likes for negativity, the incentive is to tell everyone everything is awful always. It also means we have no idea what works when things do go wrong, because the effective stuff never gets seen. Great piece by @claudiasahm.bsky.social
Yep. So now my story will forever be that I never got a master’s or made tenured associate.
As a senior in high school, a guidance counselor told me not to attend the admissions event when Columbia University visited our school. He said they were out of my league. Today:
Dinner party with people that know how to order from a menu but not how to cook
One big problem of frauds in behavioral economics is that fundamental, validated, and highly-relevant concepts are entirely overshadowed by gimmicks and half-baked interventions. Who foresaw remote work versus office work tradeoffs? Kahneman & Tversky in *1991*: academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
