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Stefano DellaVigna
@sdellavi
Behavioral economist at UC Berkeley and Co-director of Initiative in Behavioral Economics and Finance, Coeditor of the American Economic Review
Berkeley, CA
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    Stefano DellaVigna
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    Oct 10, 2018
    Took us three years, but this 7-chapter Handbook provides comprehensive treatment of reference dep (Ted O'D & Charlie S), beh finance (Nick B), household finance (gang of 4), corp finance (Ulrike M), beh public (Doug B & Dmitry T), beh IO (Botond K & Paul H), Struct beh (myself)
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    EconomicsHandbooksElsevier
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    Oct 2, 2018
    Very excited to announce the Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Application, Volume 1 published today! Vol Eds: B. Douglas Bernheim, Stanford University,; Stefano DellaVigna, Berkeley University; David Laibson, Harvard University. bit.ly/2QoY2rI @sdellavi
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    Stefano DellaVigna
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    Jul 26, 2020
    Tell others you love their paper, when you do. Tell them you love how hard they are working on sthg, when that's what they are at. Tell them you struggle too, and that we connect through our common struggles as well. We never know when someone really needs to hear a kind word.
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    Nathaniel Hendren
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    Jul 26, 2020
    I have a joke, but I'm just too sad. Connect with your friends, students, and colleagues in these troubling times. Take the opportunity to tell them what they mean to you. The future is bright because of what they all have to offer to the world. Make sure they know it.
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Jan 31, 2022
    On peer review, editors and journals, triggered by the JPE episode on Twitter. I wanted to give a take on what I and other editors try to do to give a fair share to papers. Peer review will always have flaws but, like democracy, is the best of the systems we have. (my view) 1/6
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Oct 14, 2019
    Esther is not just an amazing researcher. She also set incredible standards as founding editor at AEJ Applied, helping make AEJs the most important change in econ publishing in 25 yrs (since the Larry Katz era at QJE). Now she is attentive leader for us AER coeditors. So grateful
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    AEA Journals
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    Oct 14, 2019
    Congratulations to AER editor Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee of @MIT and Michael Kremer of @Harvard on winning the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences! Read more here: aeaweb.org/news/nobel-pri…
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Sep 5, 2019
    What message do we give as economists if missing a Nobel prize is cause for depression? This loss saddens me in more ways than one. The hope is that we live in peace with our work, and are in touch with our family and friends. RIP
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    Michael Clemens
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    Sep 5, 2019
    “Colleagues said Professor Weitzman had grown increasingly despondent after being passed over for the Nobel Prize in economics last year and had left a note questioning whether he any longer had the mental acuity to contribute to his field.” nytimes.com/2019/09/04/bus…
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    Stefano DellaVigna
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    Jun 18, 2022
    New NBER wp: Many diff-in-diff papers use state level laws, but what do we know about those? Two key facts. From 1950s to 90s, best predictor of law adoption is adoption by geographic neighbors. Last 20 yrs, best predictor is adoption by politically aligned states #polarization
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    NBER
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    Jun 18, 2022
    Analysis of the diffusion of state-level policies in the US and how it relates to different models of policy diffusion, from @sdellavi and Woojin Kim nber.org/papers/w30142
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Nov 10, 2019
    I think this is exactly right about the culture of interrupting speakers too much in economics. It is not good and hurts especially women. Put me among those that never liked this aspect of our culture. In our seminar we have always tried hard not to do that.
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Jun 15, 2019
    So glad uniform pricing project which we started 10 (!) years ago is out. Retail chains price near uniformly across their stores with implications for inequality (increases it), response to shocks (dampens it), mergers, trade. An example in growing "behavioral firms" lit
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    QJE
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    Jun 14, 2019
    Recently accepted by #QJE: “Uniform Pricing in US Retail Chains,” by DellaVigna (@sdellavi) and Gentzkow (@MattGentzkow): economics.harvard.edu/files/economic…
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Jan 17, 2021
    1/5After 4 yrs as coeditor at the AER (2 to go), time to look at some facts. Thread. I handled about 180 new submissions per year, but 230 in 2020 given the Covid-related submission boom. About 7% R&R rate, w 14 R&Rs in 2017, 13 in 2018, 14 in 2019 and 13 in 2020 (more to come)
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Apr 23, 2021
    Humbled to be in such a distinguished group, a true thank you to my academic homes, @berkeleyecon and @BerkeleyHaas. Great to be in company of Annette and @ProfRucker at @UCBerkeley, and @S_Stantcheva, Ebonya, Dirk, and Deirdre McCloskey, an inspiration with her Rhetoric of Econ
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    UC Berkeley Haas
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    Apr 23, 2021
    Congrats to Haas Profs. Annette Vissing-Jørgensen & Stefano DellaVigna, among the six @UCBerkeley faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2021! @sdellavi @americanacad haas.org/3awKF5h
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    Stefano DellaVigna
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    Mar 9, 2017
    The slides for my econ 101 class and my behavioral econ PhD class are online on my site, ungated. Let me know if you find them useful!
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Mar 8, 2017
    Like @JustinWolfers I am proud of teaching econ 101: opportunity costs, competition, preferences, game theory, and a touch of Behavioral
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Oct 26, 2019
    Thanks @RaoGautam. All: Feel free to browse and download my PhD lectures on behavioral economics, send me an email if they are useful or you have comments / corrections
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    Stefano DellaVigna
    @sdellavi
    Feb 27, 2018
    Torturing your data until it speaks: Bad idea. Writing half a dozen or more articles per year: Terrible idea. Write one or two, take the time to ensure findings are robust, polish your writing, and live with the 5+ ideas that never came to fruition
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    Emily Oster
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    Feb 26, 2018
    The emails in here. Yikes. (I am sympathetic to the view that science is messy, but the tone is a little beyond). buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/…
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    Stefano DellaVigna
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    Jul 4, 2019
    My older son who is dyslexic read this just like it was written normally since to him all letters overlap and garble in any case. This is an amazing task to try.