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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

We are double hiring!

We have a new lab and are expanding our group. If you don’t know us (yet), we are an R1 university located in beautiful Bethlehem.

We have one junior position in behavioral and one associate position in theory/experiments. Check out our ad and come talk to me at ESA ;)

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

www.aeaweb.org

Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our kids barely eat bananas here. It’s three a day per kid minimum when in Brazil…

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Aug 9

The hero with no character! We all had to read Macunaima in high school. I will re-read thanks for the reminder ;)

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Aug 6

I have the same rule but it's 24 days

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Jul 25

We have no idea (Jorge Cham)
How the other half eats (Priya Fielding-Singh)
The outlaw ocean (Ian Urbina)

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Not many meaner things one can say to an academic

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Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · Jun 17

Officially job-seeking (certified by the Federal Employment Agency).

So if anyone happens to know of any exciting jobs for an agricultural or applied micro economists... I'll be available soon. 💚😜

#EconSky #AgEcon #Job

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Kai Ruggeri @ruggeri.bsky.social · Jun 17

How are you doing? Would you like to share? We are currently running a short survey (3-4 min) in over 90 countries and languages through the link below. No tricks, no agenda - just interested in hearing how people around the world are doing.

globalmentalhealth.github.io/Research

GMH Project

Global Mental Health Project

globalmentalhealth.github.io

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Andrea Robbett @andrearobbett.bsky.social · Jun 5

💥Some news!💥 After four years of pondering, writing, and revising, I’ve sent a complete draft of my behavioral economics textbook off to MIT Press. More info about the book, including the full table of contents, is in the link below.

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Andreas Steinmayr @andreassteinmayr.net · Jun 5

THREE full professorships in Data Science, Microeconomics & Behavioral Econ — great colleagues, excellent research conditions and a spectacular setting in the Alps.

Please share! 📈📉

Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Jun 5

📢 Come work with us!

🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬

‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions

- Data Science

- Microeconomics

- Behavioral Economics

Please share! #datascience #economics

www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen – Universität Innsbruck

None

www.uibk.ac.at

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Asterisk Magazine @asteriskmag.bsky.social · May 19

Research scandals make headlines, but that AI materials science paper is still just the tip of the iceberg

@ryancbriggs.net walks through the gauntlet of issues in the research published in even our most reputable peer-reviewed journals
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

Can We Trust Social Science Yet?—Asterisk

Everyone likes the idea of evidence-based policy, but it’s hard to realize it when our most reputable social science journals are still publishing poor quality research.

asteriskmag.com

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · May 8

My son was born in Pittsburgh and we moved out when he was 3 yo. Now he’s 7 and OUT OF NOWHERE took to putting fries in his sandwiches

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Christopher Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social · May 6

If you want to work with me and an amazing team of behavioral scientists and other colleagues on improving health decisions, please consider joining our group at Geisinger as a staff scientist!

Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · May 6

We’re hiring! tinyurl.com/GeisingerBIT Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team is looking for a new Staff Scientist. We conduct large pragmatic trials of behavioral science-informed interventions to improve health outcomes, with work published/forthcoming in Nature Hum Behav, PNAS, JAMA Netw Open 1/2

tinyurl.com

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Apr 8

From time to time I read a paper so clear and full of insight that I know immediately it will change the way I see a topic. This is one of them.

Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

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Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Mar 27

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested!

#EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · Feb 14

The resignation letter by the 38-year-old lead federal prosecutor in the Eric Adams corruption case, and who he is.

We are in a character-testing time. Hagan Scotten just passed his with high honors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

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Jacob Wallace @jacobwswallace.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨

Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social

Why you'll love it:

💸 Competitive salary and benefits
💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join
🤝 Support for your big ideas
📍 New Haven, CT rocks

#Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth

Please RT! 🙏

Postdoctoral Fellow - Health Services Research | Yale School of Public Health

Position Description The Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows for its program in Health

ysph.yale.edu

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Jan 5

Except Wawa is better…

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Jan 5

Congratulations @aleximas.bsky.soci. This is one of my favorites paper to teach in my BE Class

Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · Jan 5

Delighted to receive the Journal of Finance DFA First Prize for "Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors"

We show that behavioral econ findings not limited to the lab, they show up amongst the most sophisticated market participants.

Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors

Are market experts prone to heuristics, and if so, do they transfer across closely related domains—buying and selling? We investigate this question using a uniq

papers.ssrn.com

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · Dec 26

Do regret lotteries work for behavior change?

Not really. Regret lotteries either perform worse or at best, as good, as simpler incentives. Also very sensitive to implementation details.

Nice write up of our paper w @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social & A. Wilson.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/do-re...

Do ‘Regret Lotteries’ Work?

Research assessed their usefulness for situations that involve repeated choices, such as exercise.

www.chicagobooth.edu

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Dec 16

Barcelona is amazing

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · Dec 9

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle.
A thread with graphs follows...

#EconJobMarket
#EconSky
@aeainformation.bsky.social

@aeacswep.bsky.social

@joelistings.bsky.social

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · Dec 9

As of 2024-12-01, the # of total jobs listed on JOE is down 4.9% from this point last year, down 25.1% from 2022, and down 15.7% from 2021. 2/8

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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Dec 7

Please elaborate