Lisa Spantig

Lisa Spantig

@lisaspantig.com

-- private account -- Observations about (academic) life. Interested in Behavioral, Development & Experimental Economics Current research: Financial Inclusion and Honesty www.lisaspantig.com

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"We find no evidence that executive participation weakens far-right support. On the contrary, far-right parties gain in popularity, increasing their vote share by an average of about six percentage points in the next election."

Herzliche Einladung: "Unter Druck: (Rechts-)Extremismus als Bedrohung für die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre" Dienstag, 29.9. um 14 Uhr in Düsseldorf Neben den beiden Panels freue ich mich besonders auf die gemeinsame Herausarbeitung konkreter Lösungsansätze! www.awk.nrw/news/jk/nach...

Eclipse experience in Scotland: It's getting darker! Is this the eclipse or just the rain? It was the eclipse - the (light) rain followed about 1.5 hours later...

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#fyi ür alle, die in Wissenschaft/Hochschulen etc. arbeiten und/oder Betroffene von rechten Angriffen unterstützen wollen. hilfreiche Übersicht von @komrex-unijena.bsky.social. Es braucht mehr Solidarität mit Christina Brüning und anderen Angegriffenen. www.komrex.uni-jena.de/5830/resilie...

komrex.uni-jena.deResiliente WissenschaftSchutzmaßnahmen, Ressourcen und Anlaufstellen zum Umgang mit wissenschaftsfeindlichen Angriffen.
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Vorher: "(We omit Section 5.1.3, Instrumentation, and Modules 5.2–5.8, as they do not apply.)" Rückmeldung: "Bitte entfernen Sie keine Formatierung/Überschriften/Punkte. Wir sind angehalten streng nach diesen Vorgaben zu prüfen." Der überarbeitete Antrag:

Autoland Deutschland: Für eine Arbeitsaufgabe: Es soll so geplant werden, dass "eine*r aus dem Team ein Auto zur Verfügung hat". Es wird als völlig normal angesehen, ohne Teil der Einstellungsvoraussetzungen zu sein. Dienstwagen / Carsharing vom Arbeitgebenden gibt's natürlich nicht.

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Ihr seid auch bestürzt über angekündigte #DLFReform? Dann mailt dem Hörfunkrat, & zwar HEUTE! Er tagt morgen & Programmreform steht auf der Tagesordnung. Hab eben angerufen, Mailadresse erfragt & hingeschrieben. Macht Ihr mit? Adresse lautet gremienbuero@deutschlandradio.de! Was ich geschrieben hab:

Frau Büüsker@uedio.bsky.social

"Kern der Reform ist, dass die bisherigen halbstündigen Fachsendungen in ihrer jetzigen Form entfallen." www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/deuts...

Diese Woche direkt zweimal damit konfrontiert: Warum gibt es eigentlich als Essens"auswahl" bei größeren Veranstaltungen 1x Fleisch, 1x Fisch und 1x Vegetarisch? Warum kann man nicht aus mehreren klima- und tierfreundlichen Optionen (inkl. vegan) auswählen?

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REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch

Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky

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I'm putting together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar (link below). Have a working paper related to crime or criminal justice policy that you'd like to present? Send it to me! (Papers measuring causal effects are the best fit.)

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Von der Position aus sind es nur ein paar kleine Schritte zu „kritische Wissenschaft verhindert Fortschritt und Wohlstand“

Being back in the Philippines: I'm happy to announce that over the last 10 years, the median guess of my age has only increased by 5 years! It is now 10 years below my true age.

German phone "service" provider while I travel abroad: 1. telling me to book a data package by sending a free SMS 2. I send an SMS 3. SMS cannot be delivered 4. It needs a call to get the data 5. SMS is billed

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Threema kostenlos Heute zum Welt-Datenschutz-Tag verschenke ich letztmalig Android Lizenzen für #Threema & #ThreemaLibre Schreib mich jetzt einfach direkt auf Bluesky an - DN sind offen! Nur so lange der Vorrat reicht! 😉 #WhatsApp #Messenger #Signal #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #Gratis #Kostenlos

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BÆM💥5 days left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings! 🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi 👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides ⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås 👉 baem.info

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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Mein 2025 Highlight: die technische Uni führt eine Beihilfe-App ein. Vorher: jede Rechnung sortiert nach Datum in ein Word-Dokument eintragen, mit Betrag, Art der Rechnung,... Dann noch alle Rechnungen in Kopie beilegen und schon kann's per Post verschickt werden. Erstattung ca 3-6 Monate später.

Ted McCoy 💀🖖@tedmccoy.bsky.social

working at a university

"28 more effective than cash transfers in a baseline scenario and 3732 (!!!) times in an optimistic scenario" It's early in the evaluation process, but still: Malengo is such a cool program!

Johannes Haushofer@johanneshaushofer.com

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

Academic job markets are weird: You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).

Just to be clear: I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one? For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow. Either way, it will be interesting!

Lisa Spantig@lisaspantig.com

How strong are contrast effects? Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out: After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling". Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe

If the email of the company your employer hired to teach you about phishing looks so suspicious that you delete it immediately... ...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later... ...it will surely be a very successful training!

Mein Bruder beschwert sich, dass das Bewerbungsverfahren für seinen neuen Job lange gedauert hat. "Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!" Ich: "August 2025?" Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft. #IchBinHanna

"A castle!" "This is a large church." "Who lives in the church?" "Nobody." "Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one." My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.

This is one of my favorite conferences! Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments. Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼

Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com

Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍 Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏 To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀

Excited to share that during my most recent conference trip, I realized my French is not sufficient to discuss the digital euro. With a cab driver. After midnight.

Why LLMs are not a substitute for humans in research on human behavior: Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up. Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone. #Econsky

What a surprise. Not.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

I present to you the ultimate filing cabinet for old and resting (let's be honest: abandoned) projects, well hidden under a staircase in the back entrance of a local government office.

Important read for everyone who collects their own data on online platforms #econsky

Tobias Werner@tfwerner.com

🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

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Bad: being on leave the week before the exam. Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place). Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.