Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Harris || Booth Behavioral Science Groups and UChicago Grad Council present Deep Talk: A Social Experiment with Nick Epley, the John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavior Science and Director of the Center for Decision Research at the Booth School of Business.

Join us next Wednesday May 11th at 6:00 PM in the Harris Forum (Keller Center) to be part of a live experiment and learn about the relationship between social connection and happiness. Afterwards, get a chance to network over food and drinks.

REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8Mtnc216AgcqZheQbv-HZmzV6JqgGR1iMFCkgQWwqQ5BZvQ/viewform

Curious about a career in behavioral science? In partnership with the CDO, BEPP will be hosting Zoom information sessions with behavioral science organizations between April 4th - 7th. Our speakers will include the Behavioral Insights in Parenting Lab, Irrational Labs, the Behavioral Insights Team, and more. Please see the flyer for more information and RSVP links to each session. You can also register for any and session here: https://harris-uchicago-csm.symplicity.com/students/app/events

How do biases affect policy-making in mental health policy?

In BEPP's upcoming event, Rachel Bhagwat, Director of Policy at NAMI Chicago and a Harris alumna, will discuss existing policy responses to mental health issues in the context of criminal justice and university campuses, as well as how biases among policy-makers can impact mental health policy.

About NAMI Chicago:
NAMI Chicago promotes community wellness, breaks down barriers to mental health care and provides support and expertise for families, professionals and individuals in Chicago and beyond.

When: Wednesday, February 23rd 12:30 - 2pm
Where: Location details will be sent via event confirmation
Food to-go boxes will be provided!

RSVP via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdheyBN5wcTgafgHdZ5foZ47g2R6jNjCmeo99u4xzphty857A/viewform?usp=sf_link

How does behavioral science translate from academia to practice?

To understand how policy makers, governments, corporates and businesses harness the behavioral sciences, Behavioral Economics and Public Policy HSO is hosting a Practitioners’ Roundtable with two key behavioral science practitioners doing exciting work.

Our first speaker, Lalo Motiño is a Senior Associate at Ideas42 and specializes in healthcare policy with a focus on family planning. Our second speaker is Karl Purcell, a behavioral scientist at Irrational Labs, and in the past has led the adoption of behavioral science insights by the Irish government.

This will be an amazing opportunity for behavioral science enthusiasts to interact with our speakers, understand their work, learn more about their organizations, and future career paths in the field.

RSVP Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdOqpqz8qHtY1SSjJ1yQVmkA3HLbyJs3D

Scalability is critical to everything from expanding a small business, to narrowing the national achievement gap, to delivering billions of doses of a vaccine, to making a new technology widely affordable—and much more.

In his upcoming book The Voltage Effect, Dr John List, The Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, reveals why some ideas take off (or scale) and why others fall flat using a mix of original research and real-world anecdotes.

Join us for a talk by Prof List on the key ideas shared in his book!

When: Monday, January 10th, 3 to 4:30pm
Where: Zoom

RSVP below to secure a spot and receive a preview of select chapters of the book.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfy7BfulVhGStaQgXBg6Q32quob3azlnsnnghfGe67jhwoYCQ/viewform

Read more about the book or the speaker at https://www.thevoltageeffect.com/

Note: this event is open to all UChicago students.

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy HSO (BEPP) and OUTPolitik are excited to invite you to our upcoming event ‘Conversations around Gender and Sexuality Biases’ with Lindsay Palmer, a (Dual PhD candidate in Psychology and Women’s Studies, Penn State College of Liberal Arts) and Aliya Bean (a recent Harris graduate and Consultant at Manatt Health Strategies) who will speak in dialogue on biases faced by the LGBTQ+ community, with a particular focus on how these issues intersect with policy on local and national levels.

You will also have an opportunity to learn more about OUTPolitik, which is in the middle of recruiting a board that will be instrumental in creating a queer-friendly community at Harris.

The event will take place in Keller Center, Room: 0001 on Tuesday, 16th November, 5:45PM. Please RSVP here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjYMFbtDoUVhrRoDl6v42Ito2DVROE-4c8mm-lzCBQ8C6HMw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Join us next Thursday for a discussion on behavioral insights within energy policy with Dr. Kim Wolske. If you plan on attending, please make sure to RSVP via the link below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9JF6XeV4-5NPeVI6tc7rvXoIpDfZtesOFJmR_dN0ppIYRCA/viewform?usp=sf_link

We had a wonderful time visiting MindWorks last week. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first field trip this year! Stay tuned for more events like this.

Hi everyone! BEPP is hosting our next lunch and learn with Dr. Joshua Dean on February 20th and would love to see you there! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟐:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟐

𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏 : https://uchicago.presence.io/form/bepp-event-with-dr-joshua-dean

We will be discussing Professor Dean's paper - "Cognitive Science in the Field: A Preschool Intervention Durably Enhances Intuitive but not Formal Mathematics."

https://science-sciencemag-org.proxy.uchicago.edu/content/sci/357/6346/47.full.pdf?ijkey=56mh.f.LL.Zrs&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

Joshua Dean researches the interaction of poverty and cognition using primarily randomized controlled trials. He is interested in how the conditions of poverty shape cognitive development by affecting human capital investment, how environments of poverty impede cognition, and how cognitive processes may impede poverty alleviation. Dean’s research has been published in Science and the AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Dean earned a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, he received a BS in economics and a BA mathematics and political science, both from the University of Kansas.

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Hi everyone! BEPP is hosting a lunch and learn with Dr. Ayelet Fishbach on January 21st and would love to see you there! It's a great opportunity to get to learn about motivation and behavioral economics from the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at Booth! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟐:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 28th 𝐢𝐧 the Sky Suite (Keller Center 4th floor).

𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏 : https://uchicago.presence.io/form/bepp-event-with-dr-ayelet-fishbach

Ayelet Fishbach studies social psychology, management and consumer behavior. She is an expert on motivation and decision making. She has presented her research all over the world.

Fishbach has been published in many psychology and marketing journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She is on the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Research. Her research is regularly featured in the media, including WSJ, CNN, Chicago Tribune, NPR and was selected to be featured in the New York Times ‘Annual Years in Ideas.’

BEPP is hosting a dinner discussion/ Ask-me-Anything with Dr. Shereen Chaudhry on December 2nd and would love to see you there! It's a great opportunity to get to know some of the newer faculty in Behavioral Sciences at Booth! We're capping the event to 15 people, so if you RSVP, we expect you to attend!

RSVP : 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨.𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.𝐢𝐨/𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦/𝐚𝐦𝐚-𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡-𝐝𝐫-𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐡𝐫𝐲

The event is at 𝟓:𝟑𝟎 𝐩𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝐧𝐝, 𝐨𝐟𝐟-𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬 (near the MSI).

Dr. Shereen Chaudhry is a scholar of human judgment and decision-making (JDM), with education and research training at the intersection of psychology, economics, and neuroscience. Her research explores basic psychological questions by building on insights and using methodologies from multiple disciplines. Her deepest curiosity is regarding the origins and often-overlooked purpose of everyday observed behavior. In particular, she aims to better understand how responsibility attributions influence interpersonal impressions and conflict.

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Thank you so much to those who were able to attend our event with Professor Talhelm last week! Our next event is an AMA with Dr. Shereen Chaudhry on December 2nd!