1/ Qualitative interviews offer unparalleled richness but are rarely used in economics. Let's change that! New WP with @Ingar30 uses an AI-driven approach to conducting q qualitative interviews, making them scalable, cheap, and ripe for both qualitative and quantitative analysis!

Markets typically give consumers what they want, but the news market is different, with a lot of dissatisfaction. Can we solve some of these frictions with news customization? To find out, we built an AI-powered news app that allows users to customize the news. Details below! 1/5

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2025 📢 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! FAIR, Bergen, June 19-20, 2025 More info: https://t.co/t0WsQxcRdI… #ECBE2025 #EconTwitter

🚀 Help us spread the word! 🚀 Are you early-career? ✅ Is your work in or related to behavioral economics? ✅ Then don’t miss the chance to apply for the ECBE 2025 at FAIR @TheChoiceLab in beautiful Bergen, June 19-20, 2025! Application deadline: December 15, 2024.

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All contributions to the study of media bias, news markets, social media and digital platforms are welcome, including empirical and theoretical research. Submission deadline: January 31, 2025 Scientific committee: @MNDjourel, Marcel Garz, @Sophie_Hatte, + me

🚨 8th Economics of Media Bias Workshop 2025 🚨 Working on media bias? Check out the call, help spread the word to your colleagues and submit your exciting work! Frankfurt, May 8-9 Keynote by @ellliottt More infos: https://t.co/kGg7C0UbXy #EconTwitter #MediaBias

"The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns versus Belief Confirmation Motives" - new publication by @Ingar30 (@NHHEcon, @NHHnor and @TheChoiceLab), @FelixChopra and Christopher Roth in @EJ_RES: https://t.co/PHYF07dpRg

Why do you tend to read ideologically aligned news? Because it feels good to have your beliefs confirmed – or because you tend to perceive aligned news as more accurate? Our recent @EJ_RES paper (with @FelixChopra and Chris Roth) uses an experiment to tackle this question.🧵

NEW – Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ | @DrSimEvans w/ comment from Prof Peter Andre @TeodoraBoneva1 @FelixChopra @Armin_Falk Read here: https://t.co/2JAD3tEAcN

Top Econ student + interests in economic behavior and inequality 👉 apply for PhD scholarships at @CEBI_UCPH @Economics_UCPH Deadline March 3 👉

Hello world! We can share some good news today. 🌍 Support for climate action is widespread across the globe and much larger than it is perceived. 🌍 Our new article is out in Nature Climate Change: https://t.co/q6gTXSblzX w/ @TeodoraBoneva1 @FelixChopra @Armin_Falk

Are you on the market and interested in media/behavioral econ? Do you plan to start a tenure track position in the Fall? Delay it for one year and come work with me (& Chris Roth+@FelixChopra) in Bergen @TheChoiceLab @NHHnor We will study news demand with AI tools. Apply on EJM!

We're hiring 4 predocs at FAIR, a center of excellence at NHH with deep funding and a *fantastic* behavioral/labor group. I'm hiring for my project “Media Bias and Political Polarization” in which we will use AI tools to open the black box of news demand: https://t.co/nPGNVFjUFe

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2024 📢 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! Bonn, briq, July 1–2 More infos: https://t.co/dqgjDKpvek #ECBE2024 #EconTwitter

🚨 New paper! 🚨 w/ @ph_schirmer @JoWohlfart Stock markets revolve around return expectations, which traders form in light of their deeper understanding – their mental model – of the market ... ... which we know very little about. Time to change this! https://t.co/ZzPxWQ2Xo8

Hello from SAFE 👋 With the new month, we welcome a new professor at our institute: @ptr_andre🎉 It is great to have you, Peter, and we look forward to many exciting projects. 👉 https://t.co/KtocIdjffv #behavioralfinance

Recently accepted at EJ: ‘The Null Result Penalty’ by Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Andreas Stegmann https://t.co/3t4bSECKrF @Ingar30 @cp_roth @FelixChopra @RoyalEconSoc #EconTwitter

7/ The paper provides much more details and is available on the following link:

6/ We also show that qualitative interviews with traditional sample sizes, as well as single open-ended questions about reasons for non-participation, are unable to recover the richness and robustness of qualitative interviews at scale.

5/ Turning to the main results, we are able to uncover a rich picture of the reasons for non-participation, which tends to be multifaceted and includes a combination of conventional and less conventional factors. We also uncover rich correlations between the different factors.