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Postdoc @UniofExeter | Experimental & Behavioural Econ | Interested in Altruism, Cooperation, and Morality| PhD @MonashUni | On the 2024-25 academic job market.

Exeter, UK

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Ben Grodeck🔸

5 months

🚨New Working Paper! Do people find it repugnant when someone profits off another's misfortune, even if they don't cause the misfortune? Across 3 studies we find: - Yes! people punish these types of profits ✅ - This occurs even if there is no intention to profit ❌

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2 years

Harsh, but fair.

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3 years

Reading modern Econ papers be like

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5 years

I love this so much.

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Economists while watching Oppenheimer be like

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2 years

I've decided that we need more Population Ethics related Simpsons' memes.

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For some reason everyone is talking about ChadGDP so I wanted to join the conversation.

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2 years

Hyperbolic Discounting be like

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4 years

First ever paper submitted! 🥳🎉 Looking forward to getting that first rejection and officially joining the academic club.

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2 years

PhD submitted! 🥳🥳

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2 years

I might need to work on my pick up line game.

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1 year

Regarding Gino's claim about RA's collecting data/doing analysis 1. What incentive (if any) would an RA have to fudge the data? Especially if they knew they would not be a co-author 2. If your RA is doing the data analysis, they should probably be a co-author.

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3 months

This is exactly what Burzstyn et al., find! Instagram and TikTok are product traps!

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A major reason why this is so different from previous moral panics over technology: Gen Z sees the problem, agrees social media is bad for them, but feels trapped because.... everyone else is on it. (Here's a clip from @theallinpod )

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1 year

My doctorate was officially conferred today. Yay!

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Ben Grodeck🔸

6 years

Officially became a PhD candidate today after passing my confirmation milestone presentation. Here is a bad meme I made to signify this achievement, and yes, I will be doing this for every 'life milestone'.

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3 years

Just got my first R&R! 🥳

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2 years

Some Personal News: I'm thrilled to share that I have accepted a postdoc position with @chilbe3 and Oliver Hauser's cross-institutional research group at The Max Planck Institute and The University of Exeter. I'll be moving to Europe in 2023 and could not be more excited!

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2 years

What happens when you tell people they are morally obligated to donate to charity? @SchoeneggerPhil & I address this question in our forthcoming paper in JBEE. 1/9

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3 years

And people thought the umbrella was the worst one to get! @KhoaVuUmn

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2 years

Stop comparing Methods! Experiments are GOLD Diff-in-Diff is IMPORTANT Regression Discontinuity is VISIONARY IVs are USEFUL PSM Synthetic Control is PIONEERING

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2 years

Empirical researchers be like

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9 months

Getting the 5 infinity stones is easy compared to this.

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2 years

@rodger Fun fact, the city that has generated the most NBA #1 draft picks is Melbourne, Australia - Andrew Bogut - Ben Simmons - Kyrie Irving (was born there)

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1 year

(Some of) Econtwitter: How did the EJMR paper pass IRB? Meanwhile:

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Benjamin Ryan

1 year

BREAKING: For the 1st time, a randomized controlled trial, conducted in China, has shown that circumcising men who have sex with men reduces their HIV risk. This finding is limited to men who primarily engage in insertive intercourse ("tops"). #IAS2023 .

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2 years

I would interested to listen to an @80000Hours podcast with someone who took on a high EV career with low prob of success and didn't succeed. Currently most 80k pods have people who succeeded or are successful.

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11 months

Missed my first ever flight. Now I finally feel like a real economist.

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5 years

@page_eco One more to add: I think it was in Bolivia or Peru (I can't recall exactly) there is a tax on finished buildings/houses. So every building has 4 small construction poles sticking out the top to show that it is not 'finished'

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3 years

Life comes at you fast

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1 year

Congrats @KirbyKNielsen & @JRehbeck !! As I've said multiple times on twitter, this is my favourite paper in the past few years. Glad to see it get the recognition it deserves.

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Congrats to @KirbyKNielsen and @JRehbeck for winning the 2023 Exeter Prize for Behavioural Economics for DOI: 10.1257/aer.20201550. And pleased to see my @PurdueBusiness colleagues David Gill, @prowse_victoria and @mlkovach1 (in separate papers!) among the finalists!

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The first paper from my PhD is forthcoming in EER 🥳. TLDR: 👉Information Asymmetry is a problem in buyer/seller markets. 👉Our simple mechanism introduces psychological costs for defection. 👉 Buyers' trust ⬆️ 👉 Sellers' cooperation ⬆️ 👉 Market efficiency ⬆️ 🧵👇

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Border Agent: So you're a doctor? Me: yep, I'm an academic. BA: So not an actual doctor. Me: A PhD is a doctorate. It's literally describing a doctor! The problem here is that medical practitioners have co-opted the word "doctor". Nobody even cares about etymolo-

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Border agent: purpose abroad? Me: scientific conference. BA: topic? Me: single cell biology. BA: prokaryotic or eukaryotic? #reallyhappened

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2 years

@tejfbanalytics All stats are Mahomes stats, no matter how weird.

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Ben Grodeck🔸

3 years

Got my first rejection today. Not sure how to feel. Referees gave good detailed feedback, but I don't agree with all their arguments. Editors comments were encouraging. Hopefully this makes the paper better in the long run! How does everyone usually deal with rejection?

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3 years

First Econ R&R! 🥳

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3 years

AOC got all the attention, but I thought my #metgala dress was pretty good as well.

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2 years

We can use chatGPT to help answer some of life's most important questions. Such as, what would a rap battle between Ben Bernanke and Sauron look like?

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2 years

Choose your fighter

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1 year

@Tjdriii Selection effects.

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I'm quite chuffed looking back on 2023. - Finished my PhD - Had my first paper published (and 3 in total!) - Moved to Europe - Travelled around the Sun

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Ben Grodeck🔸

8 months

Excited to be back visiting @MonashUni for the next few weeks and to finally get my hands on this mug commemorating the first paper of my PhD 🥰😅

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3 years

@RemyLevin @KhoaVuUmn The other author removed themselves from the paper.

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1 year

I just donated to this. The @DataColada team provide an incredible public good helping the pursuit of truth in social science research. Also, it's important to support them, so threatening scientists legally isn't perceived as a credible threat.

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1 year

Yeah, but what did he get on the GRE?

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1 year

World’s Most Iconic Graduate School Recommendation Letter: John Nash, a prodigious mathematician known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and other mathematical disciplines, submitted an application to Princeton University’s esteemed mathematics graduate program in 1948.

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3 years

Very excited to have my first ever paper accepted for publication! (co-authored with the awesome @SchoeneggerPhil ). Have to celebrate those Ws! I do find it quite funny that I am a published philosopher before a published economist though 😅

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2 years

From 'Against the Social Discount Rate' by @tylercowen & Derek Patfit

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Ben Grodeck🔸

1 year

2 Fast 2 Fouriers.

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Richard McElreath 🦔

1 year

Okay so Oppenheimer yeah. How about a biopic about Gauss (1805) and Tukey (1965) (re)inventing the Fast Fourier Transform? This is not my worst idea hear me out...

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1 year

I won't lie, I'm pretty chuffed to see my name (with the new title) at the @MPI_EvolBio office. Excited to officially join the team!

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1 year

R&R 🎉

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9 months

This made me chuckle* *Stolen from Facebook (James Wilken-Smith's meme).

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2 years

Omg

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3 years

@KhoaVuUmn @MartinRavallion This is such a mature, and insightful response. You are a treasure @KhoaVuUmn ! I wish I was as good at twitter (and academia) as you.

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Today, I had the privilege of listening to Professor John List's academic story and general insights into experimental economics, science and life. Here are some tidbits that I picked up 1/n

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3 years

My friend went to see if he could get an AZ vaccine today. He said that the people working there tried to talk him out of it and to wait for Pfizer instead. No wonder the vaccine roll-out is slow in Australia.

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3 months

@rodger Titmus owns you yanks!

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2 years

Notice anything?

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The US smoking rate next to the US obesity rate. Notice anything?

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3 years

Passed my Mid-candidature review 🥳🥳

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4 years

Perks of living in Australia. It's no longer 2020.

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6 years

Hey #econtwitter unfortunately my PhD program does not have a field course in experimental economics, so I am trying to be pro-active and crowdsource advice/tips for some self study. What papers do you think one should read/cover in an experimental econ field course? 1/4

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2 years

Passed my final PhD Milestone Seminar 🙌. I can't believe it's nearly the end! In the meantime, I have to celebrate the W.

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@PradyuPrasad A̵f̵t̵e̵r̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵ ̵g̵e̵t̵ ̵r̵i̵c̵h̵ ̵e̵n̵o̵u̵g̵h̵ ̵ Everything is about social signalling. Fixed it for you.

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Probably one of the most important (and valuable) keynote lectures I've attended. Methodological discussions matter. Thanks @Econ_4_Everyone #esa2023 #esaworld2023

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9 years

That feeling when you meet a mellet! @steelemellet http://t.co/vqu4x7zihS

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@nbouscal Stencil to his reply guys.

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1 year

If Richard knew for years, why didn't he speak up? Is it due to a lack of evidence, or there are incentives not to speak out (backlash etc)? Or something else?

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I have known for years that Dan Ariely made stuff up but now it turns out that it is ok because his book was a novel!

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6 years

Officially became a PhD candidate today after passing my confirmation milestone presentation. Here is a bad meme I made to signify this achievement, and yes, I will be doing this for every 'life milestone'.

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While I wasn't able to attend my graduation, I was able to have this nice moment with my main PhD advisor @erte_xiao celebrating me finally receiving my testamur!

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4 years

@VicGovDHHS Maiden over! Solid effort Vic!

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6 months

Paper Accepted 🥳🥳 Will put up a thread in the coming days.

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2 years

Do people care more about 'General Moral Principles' (such as utilitarianism) or their intuitions in philosophical thought experiments? @SchoeneggerPhil & I run an experiment in the context of Population Ethics to answer this question. 🧵👇

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6 months

This joke was so good, I decided to do a PhD because of it.

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Gun to to your head, what is the *best* Simpsons joke? However you wanna define it; pics, GIFs, clips, and overwrought explanations welcome.

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@StefanFSchubert I think part of the problem is that your average person doesn't like the idea of tradeoffs. For example, ask someone what the optimal death rate is for car accidents (in terms of actual policy).

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2 years

I turned 32 years old today. So, here are 32 takes. Some good, mostly bad.

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3 years

For some reason, this image always gets lots of likes.

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1 year

The academic experience.

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4 years

I don't know about anyone else, but I really miss in person seminars and conferences. They were my favourite aspects of my PhD journey to date and would reinvigorate my own research. Despite other benefits, I have struggled to engage with the online format.

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5 years

Live footage of Australian Supermarkets over the past 2 days. #toiletpaper

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3 years

I had the best time teaching in person last semester. Despite reviews not being the best metric, I must admit is is nice to receive some official recognition.

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3 years

The relationship between scarcity and luxury is truly fascinating.

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@mealreplacer Miracles do happen!

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2 years

@jakelouque

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Everyone's talking about taking math subjects to prepare for an Econ PhD. Meanwhile undergrad Ben was doing this.

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3 years

Anyone else develop terrible anxiety since 2020, or is it just me?

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2 years

It's only a Bayesian prior if it comes from the region of Bayes. Otherwise, it's just sparkling beliefs.

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how do we get people to stop saying “Bayesian priors” when they could just say “beliefs”

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@minakimes

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@economeager As a STATA user who wishes they were an R user, I endorse this.

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3 years

Tried kombucha for the first time tonight. It's terrible.

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While I think the econ model of focussing on a single JMP has its own drawbacks, it's a much better equilibrium than whatever this is.

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Ashley Ruba, PhD

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How I published 13 first-author papers during my 2.5 year post-doc: - All the data were already collected - 5 papers were literature reviews - I read incredibly fast - I write even faster

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@xriskology This paper doesn't really say anything about the effect of donating to AMF (or other related charities) on "food insecurity, greater poverty..." etc. In your 'high probability' of harm. How much would this be as a result of negative effects from donating to AMF?

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The Australian economists have arrived at @ESA_Lyon_2023 #esa2023 @boonhankoh @erte_xiao

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@economeager Hope this one hasn't been done!

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There is a family on my train where - the child is swinging from the roof like its monkey bars - the mum is watching instagram videos at full volume (no headphones) - the dad is coughing and vaping... What externality hell is this!

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2 years

Ben Bernanke, more like Ben BerBANKe. I'll see myself out.

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6 years

Over the next few months, I'm going to try and read at least one experimental economics paper every day that would be covered in a field course. I'm using twitter as a commitment device and this thread will document my progress.

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2 years

@crembrulemily In visual form.

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1 year

Very excited to announce that my paper with @SchoeneggerPhil has been published as a chapter in 'Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy. ' You can check out a summary of our research & findings in the thread below. '

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Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implem...

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2 years

Do people care more about 'General Moral Principles' (such as utilitarianism) or their intuitions in philosophical thought experiments? @SchoeneggerPhil & I run an experiment in the context of Population Ethics to answer this question. 🧵👇

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The patterns are so complicated!

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