Kareem Haggag
@k_haggag
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Behavioral Economist, Assistant Professor @UCLAanderson
Joined March 2009
White students exposed to racially diverse schoolmates in elementary and middle school were less likely to register as Republicans, providing evidence for the contact hypothesis, say @k_haggag, @ericchyn, and @BillingsEcon in today's #ResearchHighlight
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Being exposed to greater diversity in elementary and middle school affects party registration in adulthood.
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Important forthcoming REStat paper uses smartphone data to show that Black voters experience dramatically longer wait times to vote (from @MKeithChen @k_haggag @Devin_G_Pope & @rarohla). Builds on @pettigrew_stats's crucial work this topic. ungated https://t.co/xiar1Qa5oe
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Check out our recently accepted paper on attribution bias in college major choice! (with @k_haggag @nolangpope and Aaron Feudo)
College students assigned to a 7:30am intro course are 10% less likely to major in that subject. A similar effect is found for fatigue-inducing back-to-back courses. Why? Attribution bias. Students appear to misattribute their bad experience to the subject rather than fatigue
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Deadline for submissions to the NTA conference is one week away! Keynotes by Raj Chetty and Cecilia Rouse and plenary panel on the US safety net featuring Marianne Bitler, Janet Currie, Kathy Edin, Bradley Hardy, and Hilary Hoynes. Submit by May 31! https://t.co/70z5SoLcGr
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The @UpshotNYT just released a new analysis of racial disparities in voter wait times in the 2020 election using cell phone data. They find nearly identical results to those that we found in 2016 (compare graphs below). Replication: great! Continued racial disparities: not great
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity" by Stephen B. Billings, Eric Chyn, and Kareem Haggag.
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After many years of effort it's awesome to see this come to life. I'm optimistic that together we'll be able to transform research and policymaking around poverty in the Middle East & North Africa. So many people and organizations to thank for their support...
We are excited to announce the launch of J-PAL MENA as @JPAL's 7th regional office! J-PAL MENA will focus on alleviating poverty and improving lives in the Middle East and North Africa through evidence-informed policymaking. @AUC @CommunityJameel
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To companies expressing support for racial equity ๐๐พ๐๐พ Now show you mean it. Give workers (& contractors) paid time off to vote #time4voting Hourly & gig workers are already stretched - don't force them to make a financial sacrifice to vote. https://t.co/fDy24S4IAR
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Corporate America can give real support by making it easy for workers to vote, an economist says.
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Excellent op-ed by my friend Bocar Ba and @romangrivera1 summarizing their important work on police complaints:
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Departments tend to ignore claims of misconduct โ particularly when they come from members of minority groups.
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Bocar Ba is a young economist whose research focuses on police use of force. I am always eager to read any new study he writes. Some of his work in this area:
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The endowment effect doesn't hold everywhere, as per my latest (and probably last) Halloween experiment, soon @ JEBO. Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect https://t.co/TRLcNWNUuk.
@R_Thaler
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New paper! #EconTwitter Our paper on self-deception and (un)ethical advice is out in Games and Economic Behavior (Bribing the Self, w @UriGneezy @m_serra_garcia & Roel van Veldhuizen) https://t.co/yJxGGC6TGN โฌ๏ธThread belowโฌ๏ธ
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Short interview with @HiddenBrain on @MorningEdition. I've really enjoyed working with amazing coauthors on this projectโRich Patterson, Nolan Pope, and Aaron Feudo
Can attribution bias explain any of your major decisions? Check out my awesome coauthor @k_haggag discuss our work (with Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo) on NPRโs morning edition (itโs short!) https://t.co/x0xn16XKdn
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New data confirms that voters in majority-black neighborhoods are likelier to wait longer than those in majority-white neighborhoods. @k_haggag and @Devin_G_Pope have the latest:
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Smartphone data reveals longer wait times for African Americans.
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The average wait time for voters in black neighborhoods is 29% longer than the wait time in white neighborhoods, according to a UCLA study. Even in the same county, voters in a hypothetical all-black precinct would wait 15% longer than voters in an all-white precinct
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Cool paper on inaccurate statistical discrimination by @Devin_G_Pope @aislinnbohren @k_haggag @alexoimas. Statistical mistakes mean you can fail to find taste-based discrimination when it exists and vice versa. 1/5 https://t.co/rLxmZphwTm
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We link children who were displaced by public housing demolitions to their adult voting records (~two decades later). Moving children into higher income neighborhoods via housing vouchers increased the overall likelihood they vote by 12% (3.3 percentage points). [2/2]
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New NBER paper out this week with @EricChyn titled, "Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation". Link: https://t.co/ofUhBVCrOp [1/2]
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Want to donate based on respectable estimates of impact? Choose better charities? @tirosenberg awesome writeup of our work @impactm
https://t.co/AFFp0eoE5l. Charities range from food banks in USA to water charities overseas and then some.
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Finally, a charity rating agency is measuring how effectively money is used.
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Hi #EconTwitter, Iโm new to (actually posting on) Twitter. I'm a behavioral and applied microeconomist working across a few different areas (discrimination, education, household finance, and, lately, on voting). See thread below for the latest โฌ๏ธ
I am very excited to be releasing a new NBER working paper today entitled "Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data" coauthored with @MKeithChen, @k_haggag, and @rarohla. Link to (ungated) paper:
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