10th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE)
July 01, 2024 - July 02, 2024
IZA

10th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE)

July 01, 2024 - July 02, 2024
IZA, Bonn
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Organizers: Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA), Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA), Mattie Toma (University of Warwick), Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
Event Manager: Dominik Spitza

Reviewing Committee

Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University), Ben Bushong (Michigan State University), John Conlon (Stanford University), Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University)

Program

+++ Presentation: 15 minutes +++ Q&A: 5 minutes +++

Monday, July 01

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome Remarks

09:40 - 11:00

Session 1: Social Values in Markets

Chair: Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)

Marc Kaufmann (Central European University)
"Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers"

Sili Zhang (LMU Munich)
"What Money Can Buy: How Market Exchange Promotes Values"

Anna Schulze Tilling (University of Bonn)
"Changing Consumption Behavior with Carbon Labels: Causal Evidence on Behavioral Channels and Effectiveness"

Andrej Woerner (LMU Munich)
"How to Increase Public Support for Carbon Pricing"

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

Session 2: Learning I

Chair: Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)

Franz Ostrizek (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
"Acquisition, (Mis)use and Dissemination of Information: The Blessing of Cursedness and Transparency"

Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA)
"Mental Models of the Stock Market"

Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
"Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts"

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Session 3: Behavioral Consumption

Chair: Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA)

Holly Dykstra (University of Konstanz)
"The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through"

Rafael Jimenez (Bocconi University)
"When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media"

Philip Schnorpfeil (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation"

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:40

Session 4: Attention

Chair: Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt and IZA)

John Conlon (Stanford University)
"Attention, Neglect and Persuasion"

Andreas Kraft (University of Chicago)
"Behavioral Skimming: Theory and Evidence from Resale Markets"

18:30

Conference Dinner

Tuesday, July 02

09:15 - 09:40

Welcome Coffee

09:40 - 11:00

Session 5: Complexity

Chair: Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)

Jeffrey Yang ( Harvard University)
"Similarity and Comparison Complexity"

Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)
"Interpersonal Uncertainty as the Origin of Differences in Moral Behavior"

Gonzalo Arrieta (Stanford University)
"Procedural Decision-Making in the Face of Complexity"

Shakked Noy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Lost in Transmission"

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

Session 6: Learning II

Chair: Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)

Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University)
"Disposed to Be Overconfident"

Chiara Aina (Harvard University)
"Contingent Belief Updating"

Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)
"Numbers Tell, Words Sell"

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Session 7: Methods

Chair: Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)

Felix Chopra (IZA)
"Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI"

Fernando Payro Chew (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
"Bayesian Adaptive Choice Experiments"

14:03

David Walker-Jones (University of Surrey)
"Difficult Decisions"

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Session 8: Inefficiencies and Inequities

Chair: Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)

Manasvini Singh (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Rationing by Race"

Charlie Rafkin (MIT)
"Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market"

Germán Reyes (Middlebury College and IZA)
"Cognitive Endurance, Talent Selection, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital"

17:00 - 17:10

Closing Remarks

Contact

Forschungsinstitut zur
Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA)

Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9
53113 Bonn, Germany