See also their earlier work on how the recession reshaped the economy.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
The Upshot: Where People In Each State Were Born
The Upshot have produced another graph extravaganza looking at migration patterns in all 50 states in the US.
See also their earlier work on how the recession reshaped the economy.
See also their earlier work on how the recession reshaped the economy.
Monday, August 11, 2014
BE-Recuit.com: New website listing jobs available in BE
Joe Gladstone (co-founder of http://be-events.org/) has set up a website listing jobs in Behavioural Economics. This is a very useful resource and is a particularly good guide for people interested in studying this area to get a sense of what's out there.
Saturday, August 09, 2014
Some random links
Andrew Gelman has an interesting analysis of the Jamaica pre-school paper
NBER working paper on the link between extending unemployment benefits and reducing foreclosures
One for the social dilemma literature. A group of commuters band together (following instruction from the platform manager) to move a train to free a man who was trapped between the train and the platform.
On the evolutionary origins of the endowment effect.
Very good LSE politics blog piece by our colleague Professor Ron McQuaid on the multiple scarring effects of unemployment.
Time Preferences and Consumer Behaviour
Glaeser, Gottlieb and Ziv NBER paper on whether people trade off well-being for other benefits of living in cities.
Chair of the House of Lords committee on behavioural intervention follows up with this interesting letter.
Evgeny Morozov is a polemicist on issues around technology, surveillance and has often been critical of the Nudge agenda in behavioural economics. He outlines a critique here. I am sure a lot of readers working in that area will feel he is mischaracterising what they are doing but his point that focusing on nudges risks reductionism is certainly worth keeping in mind.
Every few months I encourage people to read this book by various methods. Elsters' "Explaining Social Behaviour: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences" is a powerful statement of how social science should be conducted and taught. There is a lot to learn in the book for behavioural science and Elster himself has been a pioneer in areas like intertemporal choice, emotions, rationality and so on. I am not sure I would go as far as predicting it will happen but there are similar alternative universes where Elster wins the Nobel in Economics for making the discipline more human and social.
NBER working paper on the link between extending unemployment benefits and reducing foreclosures
One for the social dilemma literature. A group of commuters band together (following instruction from the platform manager) to move a train to free a man who was trapped between the train and the platform.
On the evolutionary origins of the endowment effect.
Very good LSE politics blog piece by our colleague Professor Ron McQuaid on the multiple scarring effects of unemployment.
Time Preferences and Consumer Behaviour
Glaeser, Gottlieb and Ziv NBER paper on whether people trade off well-being for other benefits of living in cities.
Chair of the House of Lords committee on behavioural intervention follows up with this interesting letter.
Evgeny Morozov is a polemicist on issues around technology, surveillance and has often been critical of the Nudge agenda in behavioural economics. He outlines a critique here. I am sure a lot of readers working in that area will feel he is mischaracterising what they are doing but his point that focusing on nudges risks reductionism is certainly worth keeping in mind.
Every few months I encourage people to read this book by various methods. Elsters' "Explaining Social Behaviour: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences" is a powerful statement of how social science should be conducted and taught. There is a lot to learn in the book for behavioural science and Elster himself has been a pioneer in areas like intertemporal choice, emotions, rationality and so on. I am not sure I would go as far as predicting it will happen but there are similar alternative universes where Elster wins the Nobel in Economics for making the discipline more human and social.
Friday, August 08, 2014
Job available with the Behavioural Insights Team
We're hiring someone to join my team and run randomised controlled trials: http://t.co/spJF4dkWlq
— mike_t_sanders (@mike_t_sanders) August 8, 2014
Job title: Research Advisor
Duration: 2 year fixed term appointment
Pay: £30,000 per year, 25 days leave per year
Full details here
Thursday, August 07, 2014
$1m partnership between the Behavioural Insights Team and Harvard
Details here
"A new partnership has been established by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in the UK and the Behavioural Insights Group (BIG) at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The partnership is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.
"A new partnership has been established by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in the UK and the Behavioural Insights Group (BIG) at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The partnership is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.
The partnership will extend the BIT’s access to cutting edge thinking and research from Harvard and other academic institutions, while academics affiliated with Harvard’s BIG and other leading institutions will gain the opportunity to see their ideas brought to the field in the real world of government policy.
There are two main objectives to this partnership:
(1) To create a network of academics across the world dedicated to improving knowledge exchange and help put in place behavioural insights interventions. There will be a focus on linking world class academics with public policymakers, including bringing high potential PhD scholars from North America and elsewhere to work in the UK with BIT in London, and ensuring that BIT’s expertise can be drawn upon by scholars in the US. This network will allow findings from behavioural insights practitioners around the world to be shared more widely and for randomised controlled trials to be made more rigorous and robust as develop our understanding of human behaviour.
(2) To host regular conferences and exchanges, bringing together practitioners from around the world interested in applying behavioural insights to public policy challenges. The first of these conferences will be hosted by Harvard this October. The second will be hosted by the Behavioural Insights Team in Summer 2015."
Sunday, August 03, 2014
Friday, August 01, 2014
Behavioural Economics Guide 2014
Dr. Alain Samson has released a 130 page guide to Behavioural Economics. Of particular interest (at least to me) is the third of the paper devoted to practical applications (p69 onwards), but there's lots of good stuff in there.
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