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Muriel Niederle is a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Niederle teaches courses at Stanford University focusing specifically on experimental economics and market design. Muriel Niederle is interested in studying behavioral and experimental economics. Niederle's most recent publication was "Probabilistic States versus Multiple Certainties: The Obstacle of Uncertainty in Contingent Reasoning" in November 2017. She was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2017. .. more

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Sep 1
I have seen it, and I was amazed, a city transformed, what a gutsy and amazing mayor for the last transformation
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“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hi, I wrote a quite extensive chapter on the kind of experimental designs that can and maybe more often than perhaps expected, should be used. Not a research paper, but a chapter for grad students: www.nber.org/papers/w33630
Experiments: Why, How, and A Users Guide for Producers as well as Consumers
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Mar 20
👏
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Lise Vesterlund is celebrated at the Copenhagen Business School
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jul 23
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and a very nice summary by Klaus Taschwer in der standard: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
The evolution of male–female dominance relations in primate societies | PNAS
Historically, it was widely assumed that males dominate females socially in most mammals. However, recent studies revealed significant variation wi...
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jul 23
Hahaha: China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself.

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China fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself. This article is more generally about what you learn when you study 2...
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jul 16
Ohno, his stagings in Vienna were legendary, he changed the theaterszene in Vienna, and he promoted Handke, Jelinek and especially Bernhard! Theaterlegende Claus Peymann gestorben www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Theaterlegende Claus Peymann gestorben
Er leitete von 1986 bis 1999 das Wiener Burgtheater, setzte sich unerschütterlich für die Gegenwartsdramatik ein – und hielt die Öffentlichkeit als Verlautbarungskünstler in Atem
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jul 16
Look at that: their argument: all other ways were too slow…https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000279356/uni-linz-akzeptiert-fuer-neue-ki-professuren-keine-maenner-kann-das-legal-sein
Uni Linz akzeptiert für neue KI-Professuren keine Männer – kann das legal sein?
Für sechs Jobs im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz durften sich nur Frauen bewerben. Das verstoße wohl gegen EU-Recht, erklärt eine Expertin. Die Uni sieht das anders
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jun 26
Congrats!!!

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jun 19
Congrats!

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Alexander Van der Bellen @bundespraesident.at · Jun 10
Heute Nachmittag beginnt eine dreitägige Staatstrauer.

Die Präsidentschaftskanzlei hat die Flagge der Republik auf halbmast gesetzt.

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jun 8
yes, that's the problem with making things up, people often overdo it, 20-30% of the effect sizes, and he probably would have still been able to publish it, and maybe noone would have found out...

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jun 8
Wow, she destroyed the final! sport.orf.at/stories/3142...
French Open: Juniorin Tagger holt historischen Titel
Österreichs große Nachwuchshoffnung Lilli Tagger hat bei den French Open für einen historischen Triumph gesorgt. Als erste Österreicherin holte die 17-Jährige einen Grand-Slam-Titel im Juniorinnen-Bew...
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Apr 14
Oh, a giant died today www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders o...
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Mar 31
I wonder how much is driven by immigrants? In many European countries those are non-negligible numbers, no? (E.g. Austria: More than a quarter has migration background). Not saying immigrants don't matter. But Germany may look like US for people without immigration background...

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Mar 25
Brave new world is a good starter for such ideas…

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Mar 16
In Martinez-Marquina, Niederle and Vespa (2019) we (re-)invented a computational circuit complexity control, what Ryan in his paper calls mirror, to show that only parts of constructing the lotteries corresponding to a problem are computational, though they are far from explaining everything.

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Mar 16
I agree, of course some people will also suffer from computational problems, and some less so given how simple the computations are. I think it is a great and valid point that we are sometimes too keen to jump to some (sometimes convoluted) preference explanation rather than acknowledging mistakes.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Feb 15
You don't need to be a coder to figure this out. Simply type: tab age

You'll discover a smattering of 99 year olds, a few 100 year olds, a couple of 101 year olds, and a pileup of 150 year olds, but no-one in their 130s or 140s. That's a clear sign you've discovered a coding issue rather than fraud

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Feb 14
Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don't They Warn Users?
Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don’t They Warn Users?
Match Group, the tech company that owns Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge, Tinder and other popular dating services, has known for years which users have been accused of sexual assault and rape, but kept those...
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Feb 8
Having had a look, I don't see how the current version can remain as is. While I hope Ryan Oprea has an answer for many of the points that were raised, I am not sure what that would look like.

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Feb 8
I totally agree with these points, both 1. and 2. Here is a third. I think we should abandon our "goal" to have a unified behavioral theory. It won't happen, and I hope that as a field we have matured enough to acknowledge that many forces exist beyond the neoclassical model.

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jan 29
My body your choice - NOT: "European Court of Human Rights" .. "the very existence of such a marital obligation is contrary both to sexual freedom and to the right to control one’s body.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
She Was Faulted in Her Divorce for Refusing Sex. A European Court Disagreed.
A French court had ruled that a woman had violated her marital duties by not having sex with her husband. The European Court of Human Rights condemned that decision.
www.nytimes.com

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jan 7
Give me a few examples of what you really like, makes it easier to give recommendations:)

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jan 7
It is so amazing to have Nina Buchmann back and have her dazzle my students with her JM paper!

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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jan 6
Ohno, his books are amazing, and will live on. He contributed to embarrassing moments of laughing out loud while in public transport..

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jan 4
David Lodge, RIP, found comic material in academic conferences (#ASSA2025, #Econconf,#econsky, #academicsky)
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David Lodge (1935 – 2025), saw the funny side of academia (and academic conferences)
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Jan 2
First female composer at the Viennese New Years concert www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Friedensgrüße von Strauß-Veteran Muti als Neujahrskonzertgeschenk
Der italienische Maestro Riccardo Muti leitete das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker zum insgesamt siebenten Mal – versiert, aber nicht ohne Zartgefühl
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Muriel Niederle @murielniederle.bsky.social · Dec 31
Eliminate background noise

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · Dec 30
EC 2025 will be held at Stanford from July 7-12. Itai Ashlagi and I are the chairs. The abstract deadline is February 3, and the paper deadline is February 10. The scope is inclusive of many topics across CS, economics, and operations research. Submit your best work!