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Davide Pace

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Behavioral economist at LMU Munich - opinions are mine. Working on: cognitive economics and climate change. https://sites.google.com/view/davidedpace

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Nov 21

#EconSky 📉📈

A new simple way to boost support for carbon pricing!

New article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social

- Public support is maximized by a Climate Premium: a fixed, uniform, upfront compensation

- Experts are too pessimistic about public support

- A novel incentivized design.

🧵 + link👇

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eayeconomists.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Call for Papers!

The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026

📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT

#EAYE2026

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you Ala for the quick clarification! This analysis indeed goes against the alternative interpretation.

Just puzzling that taking away TdF exposure further decreases votes for the FR (if I read it correctly). The effects are indeed small, but the are up to 33% and 50% of your main estimates.

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · 22d

Cool!!

Can you also exclude the following competing interpretation of the treatment effect? "The TdF increases perceived inequality between towns which leads people living in not visited towns to increase their support for the far-right?"

More technically, what does ensure that SUTVA holds?

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good luck, David!

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 4

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.

The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.

This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.

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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

direct.mit.edu

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 25

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

www.nature.com

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you are a scientist in any field or just plainly a curious human being do subscribe to Andrea's substack. It contains and will keep delivering the most unexpected "oh! I didn't know that! Makes sense!" moments in your near future.

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Jun 5

I created a Substack! for now it's mainly a place I post lightly edited versions of my long threads.
The next post will be an explainer of
@Natkhov and myself's paper on the introduction of serfdom in Russia in response to nomadic slave raids. Sign up here
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Andrea Matranga | Substack

This substack collects explanations of my projects and interests, mostly relating to Economics, History and Geography. Click to read Andrea Matranga, a Substack publication. Launched 27 minutes ago.

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · May 21

How do social interactions foster or hamper delusional beliefs?

This is the most pressing open question in the literature on motivated beliefs.

Great to see progress being made 👇

Joel van der Weele @joelvdweele.bsky.social · May 20

New working paper alert: we provide a model of post-hoc rationalizations, driven by motives of (self-)esteem. We show how this can lead to groupthink, polarization, and a preference for echo chambers.

www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · May 5

4️⃣ Both the public and experts are too pessimistic
about voters’ support for climate policies

5️⃣ Effective communication of the climate policy
details is key

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · May 5

2️⃣ Voters support green investments even when
the investments are funded via carbon taxes

3️⃣ A carbon tax plus a Climate Premium is another
promising policy. The Climate Premium is
an upfront transfer to all households

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · May 5

"Voters Like Climate Policies More Than You Think".

New policy piece for EconPol Forum based on recent research findings

www.ifo.de/en/econpol/p...

Key messages:
1️⃣ Voters are willing to make sacrifices for climate
change, and they endorse costly climate policies

#EconSky #ClimateChange
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Voters Like Climate Policies More Than You Think | ifo Institute

Key Messages Voters are willing to make sacrifices for climate change, and they endorse costly climate policies. Voters support green investments even when the investments are funded via carbon taxes....

www.ifo.de

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Apr 21

So sorry, Valeria... Crazy times...

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Apr 7

"pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics"

New preprint by Taisuke Imai et al.: osf.io/preprints/me...

Abstract: The open science movement has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans being central to ongoing debates. Combining observational evidence on trends in adoption with survey data from 519 re-searchers, this study examines the adoption of pre-registration (potentially but not necessarily including pre-analysis plans) in experimental economics. Pooling statistics from 19 leading journals published between 2017 and 2023, we observe that the number of papers containing a pre-registration grew from seven per year to 190 per year. Our findings indicate that pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics, with two-thirds of respondents expressing favorable views and 86% having pre-registered at least one study. However, opinions are divided on the scope and comprehensiveness of pre-registration, highlighting the need for clearer guidelines. Researchers assign a credibility premium to pre-registered tests, although the exact channels remain to be understood. Our results suggest growing support for open science practices among experimental economists, with demand for professional associations to guide researchers and reviewers on best practices for pre-registration and other open science initiatives.

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Apr 1

Why creating a fund only targeted to current US-based researchers? There are other (turning) illiberal countries with top scientists. Besides, competition is also about retaining talent.

It is a great moment to invest more on research, but what are the advantages of the geographical constraint?

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31

🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!

#ManyDaughters

Many Analysts

www.manydaughters.com

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Adrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · Apr 1

🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!

With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.

In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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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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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Mar 17

Congrats!!

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Davide Pace @ddpace.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Ends March 10, so hurry. More details here.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Mar 7

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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csteinwender.bsky.social @csteinwender.bsky.social · Mar 6

we are looking for an Associate Professor (tenure track) in applied Economics, pls share: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Professorship (W2) of AI in Economics - Munich (City), Bavaria, Germany job with LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | 389325

All AI that are relevant to the field of economics under the application of modern statistical methods will be expected to teach courses at all levels

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 6

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

www.nature.com

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