Friday, May 31

Reception, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Frick Fine Arts, Nicholas Lochoff Cloister.

Guests are cordially invited to an opening night reception in the historic Frick Fine Arts Building, located in the heart of Oakland three blocks from the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center.  Here's how to get there on foot.

Saturday, June 1

Breakfast, 8:15 - 8:45 am

Posvar Galleria, Wesley W. Posvar Hall First Floor

Conference presentations on Saturday and Sunday, as well as breakfasts and lunches, will be held on the first floor of Wesley W. Posvar Hall.   Posvar Hall is a prominent building on Lower Campus, located across the street from the Frick Fine Arts Building and three blocks from the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center.  

Presentation schedule

Each talk in each session is scheduled for 30 minutes: a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.  All talks are held in 1500 Posvar Hall.

Conference Welcome

8:45 - 9:00 am

Lise Vesterlund, BEDI Director, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Behavioral Gender

9:00 - 11:00 am

Christine Exley - University of Michigan - "Believed gender differences in social preferences"

Rania Gihleb - University of Pittsburgh - "Gender-specific labor market shocks and household bargaining power"

Amanda Agan - Rutgers University - "Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias"

Yana Gallen - University of Chicago - "The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy"

Refreshment break | 11:00 - 11:20 | Posvar Galleria, Posvar Hall

Behavioral Health     

11:20 am - 12:50 pm

Alex Chan - Harvard University - "Discrimination Against Doctors: A Field Experiment"

Vini Singh - Carnegie Mellon University - "Rationing by Race"

Mario Macis - Johns Hopkins University - “How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia: An Experimental Survey Study”

Lunch | 12:50 - 1:50 pm | Posvar Galleria, Posvar Hall

Behavioral Development

1:50 - 3:20 pm

Gabriel Tourek - University of Pittsburgh - "Preferences and Performance Among Bureaucrats: Evidence from Pakistan's Civil Service"

Reshmaan Hussam - Harvard University - "The Household at Work: A Field Experiment in the Rohingya Refugee Camps"

Anne Karing - University of Chicago - "Incentives and Motivation Crowd-Out: Experimental Evidence from Childhood Vaccination"

Refreshment break | 3:20 - 3:40 pm | Posvar Galleria, Posvar Hall

Behavioral Labor

3:40 - 5:10 pm

Marta Serra-Garcia - University of California, San Diego - "The Attention-Information Tradeoff"

Sydnee Caldwell - University of California, Berkeley -  "Wages and Rents: A Worker’s View”

Zoe Cullen - Harvard University - “Pushing the Envelope: A Field Experiment in Negotiations” 

Dinner

6:00 pm | Black Radish Kitchen

Conference guests will be escorted to Black Radish Kitchen for an invitation-only dinner.

Sunday, June 2

Breakfast, 8:30 - 9:00 am

Posvar Galleria, Wesley W. Posvar Hall First Floor

Conference presentations on Saturday and Sunday, as well as breakfasts and lunches, will be held on the first floor of Wesley W. Posvar Hall.   Posvar Hall is a prominent building on Lower Campus, located across the street from the Frick Fine Arts Building and three blocks from the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center.  

Presentation schedule

Each talk in each session is scheduled for 30 minutes: a 20 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.  All talks are held in 1500 Posvar Hall.

Behavioral Development

9:00 - 10:30 am

Joshua Dean - University of Chicago - "Demand for Urban Exploration: Evidence from Nairobi"

Simone Schaner - University of Southern California - "Better Together? The Impact of Cash Transfers and Couples' Financial Planning on Household Dynamics and Economic Outcomes” 

Muhammad Yasir Khan - University of Pittsburgh - "Social Norms, Men’s Beliefs, and Women Voting"

Refreshment break | 10:30 - 10:50 | Posvar Galleria, Posvar Hall

Behavioral Labor     

10:50 am - 12:20 pm

Avner Strulov-Shlain - University of Chicago - "Goals, Expectations, and Performance"

Björn Bartling - University of Zurich - "Paternalistic Interventions: Determinants of Demand and Supply"

Alain Cohn - University of Michigan - "Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter"

Lunch | 12:20 pm