All sessions will take place on the third floor of the Chao Center, room 340.

Tuesday July 18

TBD

Shuttle buses to HBS will depart the Hyatt Regency Cambridge

8:30-9:00am

Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:10am

Welcome remarks

9:10-10:10am

Session 1: Gender and Gender Norms

The Transparency Gap
Mattie Toma (Warwick Business School)

We Don’t Talk About Boys: An Experiment on Masculinity Norms in Brazil
Ieda Matavelli (University of British Columbia)

Does Increasing Risk Widen Gender Gaps?
Samuel Hirshman (FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics)

10:10-10:40am

Coffee Break

10:40-11:40am

Session 2: Narratives, Emotions and Mental Models

Causal Narratives
Constantin Charles (USC Marshall)

Emotion- versus Reasoning-based Drivers of Misinformation Sharing: A Field Experiment using Text Message Courses in Kenya
Kristine Koutout (Stanford GSB)

Mental Models and Endogenous Learning
Hakan Özyilmaz (Toulouse School of Economics)

11:40am–1:00pm

Lunch

1:00-2:00pm

Session 3: Firms and Finance

The Opportunity Cost of Debt Aversion
Alejandro Martinez-Marquina (USC Marshall)

Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities
Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)

The Effects of Stock Ownership on Individual Spending and Loyalty
Michaela Pagel (Columbia)

2:00-2:30pm

Coffee Break

2:30-3:30pm

Session 4: Economics of Teams and Families

Causes and Consequences of Intrahousehold Hidden Income: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Sally Zhang (Stanford University)

Do Teams Alleviate or Exacerbate Biased Beliefs? Evidence from Extrapolation Bias in Mutual Funds
Kristy Jansen (USC Marshall)

Who you gonna call? Gender Inequalities in Demand for Parental Involvement
Laura Gee (Tufts University)

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00-5:00pm

Session 5: Bounded Rationality

Noisy Foresight
Anujit Chakraborty (UC Davis)

Emotional Inattention
Lukas Bolte (Stanford University)

An Approach to Testing Reference Points
Ao Wang (National University of Singapore)

5:30-6:30pm

Reception (Yi Ren Room, Chao Center)

6:30-8:30pm

Dinner (Yi Ren Room, Chao Center)

TBD

Shuttle buses to the Hyatt Regency Cambridge will depart HBS

Wednesday July 19

TBD

Shuttle buses to HBS will depart the Hyatt Regency Cambridge

8:30-9:00am

Breakfast

9:00-10:00am

Session 6: Representation and Diversity

The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Media Content on Racial Attitudes
Lena Song (New York University)

Nudging Science towards Fairer Evaluations: Evidence from Peer Review
Inna Smirnova (University of Michigan)

From Sesame Street to the Polls: The Voting Impacts of Representation in Child Media
Claire Duquennois (University of Pittsburgh)

10:00-10:30am

Coffee break

10:30-11:30am

Session 7: Understanding societal systems

Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Sofie Cairo

Sophisticated Consumers with Inertia: Long-Term Implications from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Avner Strulov-Shlain (University of Chicago Booth)

Follow the Crowd: But Who Follows, Who Counteracts, and Which Crowd?
Inbal Dekel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

11:30am-1:00pm

Lunch

1:00-2:20pm

Session 8: Misperceptions, Consistency and Externalities

Does Promoting One Healthy Behavior Detract from Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hannah Trachtman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions
Christoph Semken (University Pompeu Fabra)

Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue
Matt Lowe (University of British Columbia)

The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo: Evidence from Research Collaborations
Marina Gertsberg (University of Melbourne)

2:20-2:50pm

Coffee break

2:50-3:30pm

Session 9: Economic Determinants of Wellbeing

Financial Concerns and Sleeplessness
Maulik Jagnani (University of Colorado Denver)

Rank and Individual Welfare: Experimental Evidence
Xiaogeng Xu (Hanken School of Economics)

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00-5:00pm

Keynote: Christine Exley (Harvard Business School)