Economics 3011: The Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop
Course Information
Economics 3011. The Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop
Harvard College/GSAS: 0109 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Location: Littauer Center M-16 Meeting Time: Tu., 2:30-4:00 PM |
For students with an interest in economic theory. Faculty presentations by Harvard and MIT economists and invited guests. |
Fall 2014 Schedule
DATE | NAME | UNIVERSITY | TITLE |
September 4, 2014 *Joint with Theory Workshop, 4:00-5:30pm, Littauer M-16* |
Philipp Strack | UC Berkeley | "Stochastic Choice and Optimal Sampling" |
September 9, 2014 |
NO SEMINAR | ||
September 16, 2104 | Florian Zimmermann | University of Zurich | "Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information" (joint with Armin Falk) |
September 23, 2014 | Nathan Nunn | Harvard University | "The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom" (joint with Sara Lowes, James A. Robinson & Jonathan Weigel) |
September 30, 2014 | Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch | Harvard University | "Taste Projection in Models of Social Learning" |
October 7, 2014 | Josh Schwartzstein | Dartmouth College | "A Model of Relative Thinking" (with B. Bushong and M. Rabin) |
October 14, 2014 | Fiery Cushman | Harvard University | "Why learning matters for morality" |
October 21, 2014 | NO SEMINAR |
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October 28, 2014 | Ned Augenblick | UC Berkeley Haas | "Excess Movement and Belief Streams" (with M. Rabin) |
November 4, 2014 | Koichiro Ito | Boston University | "The Persistence of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Experimental Evidence from Energy Demand" |
November 11, 2014 |
NO SEMINAR |
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November 18, 2014 | Michael Luca | Harvard Business School | "Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings" |
November 25, 2014 | Justin Sydnor | Wisconsin School of Business | "Choose to Lose? Employee Health-Plan Decisions from a Menu with Dominated Options" (joint with Saurabh Bhargava and George Loewenstein) |
December 2, 2014 | Johannes Haushofer | Princeton University |
"Poverty, Stress, and Time Preference"
Background papers:
"On the psychology of poverty" (summary of papers)
"Negative Income Shocks Increase Discount Rates"
"Time-dependent effect of hydrocortisone administration on intertemporal choice"
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Course Summary:
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