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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Aug 28

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/

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Kun få supermarkeder ville medvirke i hendes forskning: Da hun så resultaterne, fandt hun ud af hvorfor" Vores studie, i dag i @jyllands-posten.dk eavis.jyllands-posten.dk/p/tillaeg2/1...

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Læs e-avisen, uanset hvor du befinder dig. Gem dine favorit-artikler, få indhold læst op eller gå på opdagelse i arkivet med artikler helt tilbage fra 1871.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jul 24

"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...

Christina Gravert "Can we change travel behaviour with nudging"

YouTube video by Bescy Environment

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 18

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...

Societe Generale unveils the composition of its scientific advisory council - Société Générale

The purpose of the Scientific Advisory Council is to provide Societe Generale’s General Management with science-based advice on key emerging trends that will influence the Group’s business and activit...

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...

Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure - Environmental and Resource Economics

Understanding when and why nudges work is crucial for designing interventions that consistently and reliably change behaviour. This paper explores the relationship between decision-making speed and th...

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 25

Obvious? Or highly debated? Supermarket offers cause unintentional overbuying and can lead to food waste. via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Gode tilbud – dårligt for klimaet: Supermarkeders mængderabat fører til madspild | Københavns Universitet - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet

Et nyt studie afslører en uheldig effekt af supermarkedernes populære “2 for 1”-tilbud: De får os ikke bare til at købe mere – de får os også til at smide mere mad ud.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 18

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...

Societe Generale unveils the composition of its scientific advisory council - Société Générale

The purpose of the Scientific Advisory Council is to provide Societe Generale’s General Management with science-based advice on key emerging trends that will influence the Group’s business and activit...

www.societegenerale.com

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 11

How (not) to encourage sustainable travel - on the 1st of July, I will be speaking at a BeScy event together with Mike 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

How (not) to encourage sustainable travel? · Zoom · Luma

How would you encourage people to ditch their petrol guzzling, congestion creating car? How would you get citizens out on their bikes, on the bus and trains…

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 10

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. Can’t say it’s causal, but it’s an interesting correlation at least.

Bente Sorgenfrey @bentesorgenfrey.bsky.social · Jun 10

I 2024 var Danmark bedst i #EU til at få ledige i job. 40,8 pct. af de ledige i et givent kvartal, kom i job i det efterfølgende kvartal, hvilket er væsentligt over EU-gennemsnittet på 24,2 pct. Det er 14. år i træk, at Danmark er EU-mestre i at få ledige i job #dkpol www.ae.dk/analyse/2025...

Danmark er EU-mestre for 14. år i træk: Bedst til at få ledige i job

Gennemsnitligt 40,8 pct. af de ledige i et givent kvartal kom i job i det efterfølgende kvartal i 2024. Det er den højeste andel i EU – for 14. år i træk. Danmark er også bedst til at få langtidsledig...

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 8

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 I‘ll recommend it to others and my students in general. I shared it on LinkedIn a while back as well to counter the hype.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 8

I still have one of your „bullshit“ 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!

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 8

Absolutely loved this mini course to think critically about GenAI! Can only recommend it to anyone!

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 4

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

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INTRODUCTION

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · Jun 5

University of Copenhagen and Zurich are dominating this innovation in field and survey experiments workshop @wzb.bsky.social 😄 so many cool experiments with important policy impact

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 27

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.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 27

Please send it when it’s done!

Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 27

Interesting! What’s the mechanism for that? They overestimate sales?

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 27

Excited to host Benjamin Enke as this year’s 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.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 26

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

In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste

Scientific Reports - In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 17

Thanks, that one indeed looks good. But also here it’s 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 it’s a good step.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 17

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...

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 17

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. That’s a lot of paperwork.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 16

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

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects

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...

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 16

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.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 16

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.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · May 16

AYFKM

There is special circle of hell for those who fabricate data

Immeasurable harm to all of us who break our backs to collect real data, to brilliant students who deserved that position, to other students who won’t get trust they deserve — just obscene

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

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Christina Gravert @cgravert.bsky.social · May 16

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 „best paper on AI“. Too good to be true! As much of AI claims to fame. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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