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Matt Lowe

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Matt Lowe

@hmmlowe

🇬🇧 Assistant Professor of Economics @UBC. Interested in devo, PE, behavioural, and sweet foods. R2: ''high on cuteness and low on depth''

Vancouver, British Columbia

Joined January 2014

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Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Feb 11, 2025
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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Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Apr 26, 2022
We have been planning this new paper for a long time, excited to finally get it out: (with Stephanie Lo, @femonomics, @sararlowes)
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Oct 14, 2024
If there was a Nobel Prize for advising, Daron Acemoglu would likely win that too. In 2018, @dongheejo68 and I mapped out his past advisees. 117 since 1994, or roughly 5 per year (~1/4 of a typical cohort!) [1/2]
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Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Jul 22, 2020
A classic question in development economics is whether (and what types of) poverty traps exist. This new paper by Balboni, @orianabandiera, Burgess, @maitreesh, @anton_heil finds evidence for poverty traps in Bangladesh. Let me try to explain... [1/N] dropbox.com/s/4tfuhclfvh6y…
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Oct 7, 2018
Why did no-one tell me stata would make a noise if I use the command 'beep'? Now I know when my do-file is done. THIS IS A GREAT DAY
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Jun 9, 2020
🍎Good news from India🍎 One worry has been that India's strict lockdown would lead to more deaths from starvation than from COVID-19. But one positive sign is that by the end of May food supply chains had largely recovered. Thread: [1/N]
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
May 6, 2020
👩‍🏫Results from a pedagogical experiment👨‍🏫 In my grad behavioural-devo class I had PhD students write up a 1/2-page research idea every week. I like this approach, so I will try to explain and evangelise: [1/N]
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Nov 18, 2019
Love this paper on caste identity and labour supply by Suanna Oh (suannaoh.com/home): almost half of the workers refuse to do a 10-minute caste-incongruent task even when offered 10x their daily wage!
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Sep 14, 2024
Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?
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Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Apr 7, 2020
India's lockdown has led to ~50% drop in fruit and vegetable volume at Azadpur wholesale market in Delhi (Asia's largest wholesale fruit and veg market), though some signs of recovery. More from work with @BenRothEcon, @nadhanael: [1/N]
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Jul 24, 2022
Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities? Some new evidence with Banerjee, @GregFisch, @deankarlan, @BenRothEcon: mattlowe.site/wp-content/upl… 1/
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Aug 15, 2019
🚨 Revised JMP on intergroup contact 🚨 Some (me) wondered whether this day would ever come. To celebrate I'd like to tell a story about cricket, caste, and different types of intergroup contact. Are you sitting comfortably? mfr.osf.io/render?url=htt… 1/N
Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
Nov 9, 2024
Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? @iedarm is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵
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Matt Lowe
@hmmlowe
May 27, 2020
I am a British citizen living in Canada and today I got $1200 in the post from Donald Trump. I left America in summer 2018. The targeting isn't great is it?