Dana Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Fulbright-Aalto Distinguished Chair (2023/4) at Aalto University/HGSE. He/him. @PHMinVT@econtwitter
Joined April 2018
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Peter Hans Matthews retweeted
In just a few short days, 400 students, faculty, staff, parents, alums/donors have already signed a petition to restore the retirement benefits @Middlebury plans to claw back, despite decades of repeated promises. Add your name! go.middlebury.edu/savetheben…
Congratulations, Amanda. And what distinguished company.
@middecon @Middlebury's own @AmandaGregg711 has been awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. A wonderful and well-deserved honor ... but we're not surprised! Bravo, AG!
eh.net/hughes-prize/
Lucky world! @middecon will now hire in macro-environmental or environmental with macro as a teaching field. Generous active colleagues who live and work in an idyllic setting.
Read current chair @AndreaRobbett's list, below, and apply here:
aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
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We know that crises can reduce cognitive bandwidth, but what about "moral bandwidth"?
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jy0o…
In this case of the German response to COVID, the answer seems to be no.
This is the first collaboration of a cross-national, cross-displinary team including @middecon's Julia Berazneva and @Middlebury psychologist and provost (!) Michelle McCauley, ad well as @DanielGraeber and @SabineZinn1 of SOEP @DIW_Berlin_en.
It's also the first paper to list @Middlebury's own Vermont Center for Behavioral Science Research on Climate and Environment as an affiliation.
Look for the team's next big(get) project, an information provision experiment based on a SOEP Innovation Sample.
I had a lot of fun collaborating on this with @AndreaRobbett and our shared thesis student, Henry Walsh @middecon @Middlebury. Thanks to the organizers of the @PNASNexus special feature.
One striking result: the headline result is driven by Republicans.
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Peter Hans Matthews retweeted
Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”
Peter Hans Matthews retweeted
Vow. ChatGPT o1-preview just aced my Intermediate Microeconomics exams. It performed at the 98-99th percentile student level.
v4 performed like a median student in 3/2023,
v3.5 flunked badly in 12/2022 (though it did pass the Turing test as an unprepared student).
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I love that @MiettinenTopi and organizers are building bridges at the ESA European conference.
Are you interested in how #behavioral #economics and randomized controlled trials can inform public #policy its various domains?
“Behavioral Economics in Action: Shaping Public Policy"-workshop is taking place this Thursday, September 5th, 2024, at the Helsinki City Hall.
Very interesting ... if a little ominous.
Do lab participants understand the incentives they face? Toke Fosgaard and I argue that confusion should not be discarded as a driver of behavior. Without proper control treatments and robust measures of misperceptions, conclusions risk being speculative.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
Peter Hans Matthews retweeted
Read all about it! Read all about it!
Thanks to the efforts of @middecon colleague @D_Munro_Econ, we have an annual newsletter!
Vol. 1 is sure to become a collector's item:
middlebury.edu/college/sites…
Congratulations, @MiettinenTopi, on an intriguing - and topical - theory paper!
Very pleased to see this finally out! It has been a long and fascinating journey. A topical article now that Hungary holds the EU presidency. But maybe even more so before and after, when Hungary does not hold it, as the article illustrates.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
The deadlineto submit papers to ESA Europe is drawing nigh – July 8th, to be precise. Come to hear and share world class experimental research, stay for the food, design and sauna!
esa2024helsinki.fi/helsinki
Finland swims against the European Parliamentary tides!
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Great post-doc opportunity!
Postdoc opening at Hanken, Helsinki GSE - great research environment in a beautiful city!
Postdoctoral researcher in behavioral and experimental economics / Postdoktoral forskare i beteendeekonomi och experimentell ekonomi hanken.rekrytointi.com/paika…
