Only three days left to apply! Deadline 28th of November!
Only three days left to apply! Deadline 28th of November!
I am looking for a post-doc working on either behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Now with # :-) #econjobmarket #jobmarket #postdoc #environmentaleconomics Apply here until 28.11.: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
I have an open post-doc position, that might be of relevance for some: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Looking forward to this seminar. Such an honor to be in a line -up with so many researchers I admire. I'll be talking about my field experiment on consumer inertia and why attention isn't enough to overcome it!
I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Looking forward to presenting at the @pennchibe.bsky.social research seminar on the 26th of November. Sign up here for all the talks: chibe.upenn.edu/events/
"Kun fΓ₯ supermarkeder ville medvirke i hendes forskning: Da hun sΓ₯ resultaterne, fandt hun ud af hvorfor" Vores studie, i dag i @jyllands-posten.dk eavis.jyllands-posten.dk/p/tillaeg2/1...
"Can we change travel behaviour with nudging?" recording of my talk at the BeScy Environment event. Thanks for having me and the great conversation with the other speakers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iir...
A dream come true to work among this team and help shape sustainable banking and policy! And a novel approach for corporate to assemble such a diverse board: www.societegenerale.com/en/news/pres...
Re-order nudges only work when people make fast decisions. Carbon labels don't work to change choices - neither with fast nor slow decisions. New evidence on when nudges work in our new publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Obvious? Or highly debated? Supermarket offers cause unintentional overbuying and can lead to food waste. via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
A dream come true to work among this team and help shape sustainable banking and policy! And a novel approach for corporate to assemble such a diverse board: www.societegenerale.com/en/news/pres...
How (not) to encourage sustainable travel - on the 1st of July, I will be speaking at a BeScy event together with βMike Daniels from The Behavioral Architects and Mike Scott from Cycling UK about the possibilities and limits of behavioral science for changing travel habits lu.ma/28rihhmh
Denmark is best in EU in getting workers back into jobs (twice the average rate). They also do tons of RCTs to find out what works and apply behavior science. Canβt say itβs causal, but itβs an interesting correlation at least.
I have been thinking whether I can somehow include it in my fall class, but its a bit far off topic for that one. But Iβll recommend it to others and my students in general. I shared it on LinkedIn a while back as well to counter the hype.
I still have one of your βbullshitβ talks (from 2021) as a homework assignment for my students and have them choose their favorite bullshit examples and then we discuss them in class. I am a big fan of you work and LOVE the new AI course. Thanks for providing these resources!
Absolutely loved this mini course to think critically about GenAI! Can only recommend it to anyone!
University of Copenhagen and Zurich are dominating this innovation in field and survey experiments workshop @wzb.bsky.social π so many cool experiments with important policy impact
Day 1 of the Workshop on Cognitive Foundations of Decision Making with presentations by @kaibarron.bsky.social @clarasievert.bsky.social @enhuahu.bsky.social Menglong Guan, Natalie Lee, Paul Grass, Julian Matthes, Luigi Butera, and Benjamin Enke.
Please send it when itβs done!
Interesting! Whatβs the mechanism for that? They overestimate sales?
Excited to host Benjamin Enke as this yearβs Zeuthen lecturer the University of Copenhagen. The lectures run over three days and are complemented by a workshop on the cognitive foundations of decision making.
Our publication on how multi-buy offers increase unplanned overbuying and how this can increase food waste at home is out and open-access! This was probably one of the most complicated field experiments I ever ran, but also one I am very proud of: rdcu.be/enmFi
Thanks, that one indeed looks good. But also here itβs more a lab in the field experiment with clearly defined tasks. It is not obvious that the productivity gains will translate to real legal work and thus markedly increase productivity. But itβs a good step.
Only one year after replacing their customer service and marketing team with AI agents, Klarna is regretting the decision and trying to re-hire workers. The quality was just too low to justify the cost-savings. So looks like AI isn't taking your job, just yet. futurism.com/klarna-opena...
This also raises some questions about PhD supervision and data protection at MIT - some supervisor would have needed to sign a data sharing agreement and a secure server would have been needed for the data. Thatβs a lot of paperwork.
The retracted study showed impacts on patents filed - something that would really matter for a firm's bottom line. A new Danish study also shows no effects on labor market outcomes www.nber.org/papers/w33777
I think the study is interesting, but the total time of the study was 5 hours, the tasks were carefully chosen, and the consultants who participated selected. I think there is no doubt that AI can speed up coding or writing, but I haven't seen much on how that impacts firm productivity.
And harm to the companies using results like this to spend billions on tools that don't work. So far there is very little evidence that AI tools increase productivity for complex tasks. This fake study was one of the only ones.
One of the best AI papers on productivity turned out to be made up - so disappointing! I really liked the paper and had it saved as βbest paper on AIβ. Too good to be true! As much of AI claims to fame. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...