The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

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RT @CEGA_UC: 👥 Does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? CEGA Faculty Affiliate @hmmlowe finds that:. 📉 Effects smaller than previously tho….

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Children that work in markets in India are good at maths when a customer makes a complicated request, but bad when facing an abstract maths problem as presented in school. Children that don't work in markets show the opposite pattern. Very cool.

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Cool paper in Nature using data for a few million kids in France: no gender gap in Maths test scores at the start of first grade, big gap by the end.

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The takeaway is that cross-party peer influence exists, but it is limited, and consistent with a cue-taking channel, rather than persuasion. We thank the Icelandic MPs who replied to our survey, and the (likely) polisci referees that showed some kindness to a couple of.

After a long road, excited to see my work with @dongheejo68 published in @The_JOP. In Iceland, a lottery determines which politicians sit next to each other. We find that different-party politicians randomly assigned to sit next to each other are slightly more likely to vote.

New evidence on the intergenerational effects of intergroup contact: male civil servants exposed to female colleagues have daughters that are more likely to work. Link here: from Aneja, @SilviaFarins, @guoxu_econ

RT @paulnovosad: This is a very nice paper which clarifies something that many people working on close elections get wrong. Most of the ti….

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RT @nberpubs: Conducting a field experiment in rural India to test whether effective communication training among married women impacts the….

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RT @erikbryn: When whites and minorities drive at identical speeds (according to objectively measured data from Lyft) Florida police are 24….

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