KarlPurcellBehavEcon
@EF110Econ
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Applying behavioural science to help make people happier, healthier, and wealthier with @irrationallabs. All views are personal. Retweets are not endorsements.
San Diego, CA
Joined February 2013
I am making the move to the place where skies are bluest. If you are interested in behavioral economics, experiments, policy, and using behavioral design for good in big tech, find me over there with the same handle @EF110Econ . And if you are someone I follow, please join me!
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RT @jayvanbavel: Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action Our new paper (N=6,132, across 63 count…
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RT @S_Stantcheva: Why do we dislike inflation? 🚨New paper for @BrookingsInst revisits this long-standing question, already asked by @Rober…
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RT @deepigoyal: We don't encourage order cancellation at Zomato, because it leads to a tremendous amount of food wastage. Inspite of strin…
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RT @LearnWithBishal: This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst Ul on Reddit. I think the winners are (thread)🧵 1/…
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RT @juliewdesign_: loving that I can use AI to ideate and "illustrate" to then design a children’s book for my son 🥹
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RT @tomstello_: very very interesting! does *perceived* source matter for persuasion during human<>AI convos? perhaps less than I might h…
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RT @LSE_PBS: 📣 New paper: Using survey experiment pre-testing to support future pandemic response 📝 @Ben_Tappin & Luke B Hewitt analysed…
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RT @brian_caulfield: Lots of talk about the reduction in the electric car grants. 6 months ago the OECD review of transport in Ireland sai…
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Posting this again given some of the discussion around the announcement of the green licence plates and associated talk about the grant reduction harming ev sales.
Lots of talk on Irish econ Twitter about the reduction to the electric vehicle grant. Some thoughts🧵 First off, why do policy change announcements like this not include evidence for the changes? The press release made no mention of modelling, international evidence etc 1/n
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The reason I say this is that subsidies can help, but they can also lose their additionality over time, especially as prices fall in the market. We should have evidence based discussion about the impact of subsidies & the marginal impact that money can have elsewhere 3/3
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RT @notsmartblog: New episode — an interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy th…
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RT @khoslasaksham: Fascinating paper on how Spotify uses playlists to maximize bargaining power with record labels. It's playlists: - allow…
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RT @jayvanbavel: Our new research finds huge cultural variation in perceptions of alignment with genAI! People in Western countries are m…
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