Alex Alekseev
@aalexee.bsky.social
Behavioral/experimental/labor economist interested in AI/robots/automation. Assistant Professor at the University of Regensburg, former Chapman ESI postdoc, GSU AYSPS grad. 🇷🇺-🇺🇸-🇩🇪 aalexee.com
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Alex Alekseev
@aalexee.bsky.social
· Oct 10
The (Statistical) Power of Incentives | Journal of the Economic Science Association | Cambridge Core
The (Statistical) Power of Incentives
dx.doi.org
Thrilled to see my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" out at the Journal of the Economic Science Association. 🥳
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
This tip will be helpful for anyone who uses Beamer-made slides (or any PDF slides in fact) with a dual-screen setup, where the slides are projected on a big screen from a laptop in extended display mode. And who cares about their neck.
aalexee.com/post/2025-11...
aalexee.com/post/2025-11...
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This tip will be helpful for anyone who uses Beamer-made slides (or any PDF slides in fact) with a dual-screen setup, where the slides are projected on a big screen from a laptop in extended display mode. And who cares about their neck.
aalexee.com/post/2025-11...
aalexee.com/post/2025-11...
🦆 Last weekend, Regensburg hosted a duck race. 6,000 rubber ducks drifting through a canal. Each duck corresponds to a lottery ticket. The first 100 ducks to finish win prizes. We bought 3 tickets. What are our odds of winning?
➡️ Read more: aalexee.com/post/2025-10...
➡️ Read more: aalexee.com/post/2025-10...
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🦆 Last weekend, Regensburg hosted a duck race. 6,000 rubber ducks drifting through a canal. Each duck corresponds to a lottery ticket. The first 100 ducks to finish win prizes. We bought 3 tickets. What are our odds of winning?
➡️ Read more: aalexee.com/post/2025-10...
➡️ Read more: aalexee.com/post/2025-10...
Thrilled to see my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" out at the Journal of the Economic Science Association. 🥳
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
The (Statistical) Power of Incentives | Journal of the Economic Science Association | Cambridge Core
The (Statistical) Power of Incentives
dx.doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thrilled to see my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" out at the Journal of the Economic Science Association. 🥳
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....
#Econsky
How to participate in an ESA meeting
Step 1. Attend plenary talks
Step 2. Attend sessions
Step 3. Attend social events
Step 4. Meet new people and catch up with old friends
Step 5. Oh no, the conference is over
Step 6. Lie down
Step 7. Try not to cry
Step 8. Cry a lot
@ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
Step 1. Attend plenary talks
Step 2. Attend sessions
Step 3. Attend social events
Step 4. Meet new people and catch up with old friends
Step 5. Oh no, the conference is over
Step 6. Lie down
Step 7. Try not to cry
Step 8. Cry a lot
@ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How to participate in an ESA meeting
Step 1. Attend plenary talks
Step 2. Attend sessions
Step 3. Attend social events
Step 4. Meet new people and catch up with old friends
Step 5. Oh no, the conference is over
Step 6. Lie down
Step 7. Try not to cry
Step 8. Cry a lot
@ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
Step 1. Attend plenary talks
Step 2. Attend sessions
Step 3. Attend social events
Step 4. Meet new people and catch up with old friends
Step 5. Oh no, the conference is over
Step 6. Lie down
Step 7. Try not to cry
Step 8. Cry a lot
@ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
Big thanks to @fialalenka.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social for the replication games in Brno. It was fun. We loved the songs! 🤘
The Brno Replication Games were a success!🥳 Many thanks to our awesome replicators who spotted a range of coding errors and fixed incorrectly specified models. Many thanks also to @econmuni.bsky.social for having us: you are the reason economists love coming back every year😊
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Big thanks to @fialalenka.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social for the replication games in Brno. It was fun. We loved the songs! 🤘
👏 Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and the team at @econmuni.bsky.social for a fantastic @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social meeting in Brno
#econsky
#econsky
September 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
👏 Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and the team at @econmuni.bsky.social for a fantastic @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social meeting in Brno
#econsky
#econsky
iOS autocorrects “tex” as “Tex”
It autocorrects “xetex” as “XeTeX”
It does not autocorrect “latex”
Can you guess what it autocorrects as “listed”?
🤔
It autocorrects “xetex” as “XeTeX”
It does not autocorrect “latex”
Can you guess what it autocorrects as “listed”?
🤔
August 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
iOS autocorrects “tex” as “Tex”
It autocorrects “xetex” as “XeTeX”
It does not autocorrect “latex”
Can you guess what it autocorrects as “listed”?
🤔
It autocorrects “xetex” as “XeTeX”
It does not autocorrect “latex”
Can you guess what it autocorrects as “listed”?
🤔
🎉 Excited to share that my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" has been accepted at the Journal of the Economic Science Association! @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who helped me on this journey.
ssrn.com/abstract=408...
#EconSky
Thanks to everyone who helped me on this journey.
ssrn.com/abstract=408...
#EconSky
The (Statistical) Power of Incentives
I study the optimal design of monetary incentives in experiments where incentives are a treatment variable. I propose a novel framework called the Budget Minimi
ssrn.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🎉 Excited to share that my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" has been accepted at the Journal of the Economic Science Association! @ecscienceassoc.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who helped me on this journey.
ssrn.com/abstract=408...
#EconSky
Thanks to everyone who helped me on this journey.
ssrn.com/abstract=408...
#EconSky
I have written up a few tips for making writing in TeX a bit more enjoyable. You can read the full post at medium.com/@alexander.g... The main points are below ✍️ #LaTeX #WritingTips
Medium
medium.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I have written up a few tips for making writing in TeX a bit more enjoyable. You can read the full post at medium.com/@alexander.g... The main points are below ✍️ #LaTeX #WritingTips
🚨 New WP!
📄 “A Taxonomy of AI Experiments” — Aleksandr Alekseev & Christina Strobel (2025)
ssrn.com/abstract=529...
We introduce a taxonomy to help researchers make sense of existing AI experiments and better design their own.
🧵 Here's a brief overview of our approach:
📄 “A Taxonomy of AI Experiments” — Aleksandr Alekseev & Christina Strobel (2025)
ssrn.com/abstract=529...
We introduce a taxonomy to help researchers make sense of existing AI experiments and better design their own.
🧵 Here's a brief overview of our approach:
June 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨 New WP!
📄 “A Taxonomy of AI Experiments” — Aleksandr Alekseev & Christina Strobel (2025)
ssrn.com/abstract=529...
We introduce a taxonomy to help researchers make sense of existing AI experiments and better design their own.
🧵 Here's a brief overview of our approach:
📄 “A Taxonomy of AI Experiments” — Aleksandr Alekseev & Christina Strobel (2025)
ssrn.com/abstract=529...
We introduce a taxonomy to help researchers make sense of existing AI experiments and better design their own.
🧵 Here's a brief overview of our approach:
I wonder if anyone at JPE cares about its readers' eyesight. The text in some graphs is virtually unreadable. It's like 2pt. And yet the font size for panels is always HUGE.
February 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I wonder if anyone at JPE cares about its readers' eyesight. The text in some graphs is virtually unreadable. It's like 2pt. And yet the font size for panels is always HUGE.
My new favorite quote:
"The 95% confidence intervals of the means are omitted owing to their insignificant width, given the sample size (n = 35.2 million)"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Econsky
"The 95% confidence intervals of the means are omitted owing to their insignificant width, given the sample size (n = 35.2 million)"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Econsky
The Moral Machine experiment - Nature
Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethi...
doi.org
February 12, 2024 at 12:48 PM
My new favorite quote:
"The 95% confidence intervals of the means are omitted owing to their insignificant width, given the sample size (n = 35.2 million)"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Econsky
"The 95% confidence intervals of the means are omitted owing to their insignificant width, given the sample size (n = 35.2 million)"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Econsky
It's pretty rare to see a paper on the history of econ thought in Top-5, but Magness, P. W., & Makovi, M. (2023) made it. A fascinating read.
doi.org/10.1086/722933
doi.org/10.1086/722933
February 7, 2024 at 2:36 PM
It's pretty rare to see a paper on the history of econ thought in Top-5, but Magness, P. W., & Makovi, M. (2023) made it. A fascinating read.
doi.org/10.1086/722933
doi.org/10.1086/722933
Garcı́a, J. L., Heckman, J. J., & Ronda, V. (2023) use a pretty neat way to visualize ATEs: using stacked bar graphs with the differences between the treatment and control on the top. Seems to be a good solution when you have a bunch of effects to show.
doi.org/10.1086/722936
doi.org/10.1086/722936
February 3, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Garcı́a, J. L., Heckman, J. J., & Ronda, V. (2023) use a pretty neat way to visualize ATEs: using stacked bar graphs with the differences between the treatment and control on the top. Seems to be a good solution when you have a bunch of effects to show.
doi.org/10.1086/722936
doi.org/10.1086/722936
POV: You don't really know a person until you ask them to review a paper
February 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM
POV: You don't really know a person until you ask them to review a paper
Reposted by Alex Alekseev
I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
January 13, 2024 at 8:11 PM
I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
Reposted by Alex Alekseev
Stoked to announce a new release of `plot2`, the powerful and lightweight (0-dep) extension for #rstats base plotting! github.com/grantmcdermo...
What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.
What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.
January 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Stoked to announce a new release of `plot2`, the powerful and lightweight (0-dep) extension for #rstats base plotting! github.com/grantmcdermo...
What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.
What's new? A bunch of things, including area plots and facets. Draw plots like the below with simple function calls.
Started reading "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis and it opens with a really cool quote from Tolstoy that I, to my shame, did not know
January 26, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Started reading "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis and it opens with a really cool quote from Tolstoy that I, to my shame, did not know
I've been receiving so much spam from the Journal of This or the Journal of That and the like lately that I am starting to think why don't they just combine their efforts and do the "Journal of Everything Everywhere All at Once"
January 25, 2024 at 9:03 AM
I've been receiving so much spam from the Journal of This or the Journal of That and the like lately that I am starting to think why don't they just combine their efforts and do the "Journal of Everything Everywhere All at Once"
My new favorite quote:
"We show that, generically, a mechanism is informationally simple if and only if it satisfies a separability condition that rules out most economically meaningful mechanisms."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
"We show that, generically, a mechanism is informationally simple if and only if it satisfies a separability condition that rules out most economically meaningful mechanisms."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
My new favorite quote:
"We show that, generically, a mechanism is informationally simple if and only if it satisfies a separability condition that rules out most economically meaningful mechanisms."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
"We show that, generically, a mechanism is informationally simple if and only if it satisfies a separability condition that rules out most economically meaningful mechanisms."
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
TIL that there is an Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
oeis.org/A003024 i'm just reproducing this; the robinson paper is the reference to look at
A003024 - OEIS
oeis.org
December 16, 2023 at 11:50 AM
TIL that there is an Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Are lab experiments in economics RCTs? I noticed that people tend to refer to RCTs if these are field experiments, but not lab. What do you think? #econsky
December 11, 2023 at 10:26 AM
Are lab experiments in economics RCTs? I noticed that people tend to refer to RCTs if these are field experiments, but not lab. What do you think? #econsky
What is the single most useful thing (model, empirical method, general academic stuff) that you learned *after* your PhD?
December 8, 2023 at 10:16 AM
What is the single most useful thing (model, empirical method, general academic stuff) that you learned *after* your PhD?
Excellent point. I feel like in some cases people are just trying to cover their ignorance or unwillingness to do a proper search.
Authors writing "To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to..." --> please include a footnote showing us how hard you tried to find earlier work.
December 6, 2023 at 10:15 AM
Excellent point. I feel like in some cases people are just trying to cover their ignorance or unwillingness to do a proper search.