“The No Club” is now available in Chinese! I got to celebrate the publication while presenting at the ESAWorld meetings in Beijing. It was a pleasure to meet our publisher at China Machine Press and to reconnect with our extremely talented and generous Pitt alumni. What an amazing trip.
Lise Vesterlund
@lisev.bsky.social
A.W. Mellon Professor of Economics, Univ. Pittsburgh; Director of PEEL and BEDI. Co-Author of "The No Club"
50 years of International Women’s Day and feeling tremendous sadness over recent anti-DEI developments. Light is seen in the organizations that boldly maintain that success hinges on providing employees equal opportunity for reaching their potential.
Copenhagen Business School is giving me an honorary doctorate, and I cannot overstate how much this means to me. Please join me for the celebration and public lecture on March 21st. Registration in the link below.
We are welcoming @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @lisev.bsky.social as honorary doctors at CBS, the ceremony - with lectures - taking place (in person) on 21st March:
Learn to Say No. How do you decide when to say no? Ask yourself: -Can I say no? -Do I actually want to do this? (Beyond “it is so nice to be asked!”) -Would I do it much better/differently than the next person? -What will I take of my plate if I do this? See “The No Club” (@lisev.bsky.social)
We recently secured a senior line @pittecon.bsky.social. Please apply or forward to those who may be interested. We have a fabulous group and would love to explore options for having you as a colleague.
The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
My fabulous student @priyomam.bsky.social is on the job market. Her JMP demonstrates that failed HH information pooling is not due to reluctance to learn from one’s spouse. A domain with common knowledge of expertise shows successful pooling-suggesting expertise incentivizes talking and listening.
I am on the #EconJobMarket ! 🚨 JMP Alert 🚨 Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse? In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise. 🧵below: