Unser Team am Department of Economics der UZH sucht gemeinsam mit @andreasbeerli.bsky.social (ETH Zürich) Verstärkung zur Evaluation innovativer Politikmassnahmen: Research Manager:in (60%-80%): jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Predoctoral Research Fellow: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
Michel Maréchal
@michelmarechal.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, behavioral economics, field experiments; www.michelmarechal.com
Unser Team am Department of Economics der UZH sucht gemeinsam mit @andreasbeerli.bsky.social (ETH Zürich) Verstärkung zur Evaluation innovativer Politikmassnahmen: Research Manager:in (60%-80%): jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Predoctoral Research Fellow: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: Research Manager:in
Das Department of Economics der Universität Zürich sucht eine engagierte Person als Research Manager:in. Der Beschäftigungsgrad ist flexibel (60–80 %), sollte jedoch auf mindestens vier Tage pro Woche...
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This new study provides novel evidence of how real-world experiences have a direct impact on public opinion. 👉 To the video: lnkd.in/eFrTtnYD 👉 To the summary: lnkd.in/eHwEg7mw 👉 To the paper: lnkd.in/eqnVCwns
New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand? With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Imagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself? A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
If you want to stay up-to-date about the newest economics working papers on Artificial Intelligence, then follow @repec-nep-ain.bsky.social
Join me, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and our team in conducting large-scale policy experiments!
🚨#HiringAlert !🚨 We're looking for *Pre-Doc / Junior-Researcher* to join me and @michelmarechal.bsky.social and the team to work with us on several, very exciting, large-scale field-experiments in Switzerland with a real and direct policy-impact www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/102...
Experimental validation, which links economic preferences to choices in incentivized elicitations, may fail to produce reliable new measures, from Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv, and Colin Camerer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33520
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Interpreting TSLS Estimators in Information Provision Experiments" by Vod Vilfort and Whitney Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Interpreting TSLS Estimators in Information Provision Experiments
(Forthcoming Article) - In information provision experiments, researchers often estimate the causal effects of beliefs on actions using two-stage least squares (TSLS). This paper formalizes exclusion ...
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My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
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Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution? Cross-Country Evidence | Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics: Vol 3, No 1
Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent ...
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