Conference Program, May 23 & 24, 2011

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Monday, May 23, 2011

8:30-9:15     Breakfast Buffet On Site

9:15-9:30     Opening Remarks

9:30-10:15     Keith Chen: "The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets"

10:15-11:00     Katy Milkman: "Temporal Distance Heightens Discrimination: An Audit Study in Academia" (joint with Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh)

11:00-11:30     Break

11:30-12:15     Antonio Rangel: "Realization Utility Signals in the Brain are Associated with Suboptimal Trading in an Experimental Stock Market" (joint with Cary Frydman, Nicholas Barberis, Colin Camerer, and Peter Bossaerts)

12:15-2:00     Lunch On Site

2:00-2:45     Josh Schwartzstein: "Insuring the Health of Behavioral Consumers"
(joint with Katherine Baicker and Sendhil Mullainathan)

2:45-3:30     Justin Sydnor: "Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune‐500 Company"
(joint with Heather Royer and Mark Stehr)

3:30-4:00     Break

4:00-5:00     Keynote Talk: George Akerlof

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

8:30-9:00     Breakfast Buffet On Site

9:00-9:45     Daniel Benjamin: "Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers"
(joint with Matthew Rabin and Collin Raymond)

9:45-10:30     Muriel Niederle: "Self-Confidence Management: Theory and Experimental Evidence" (joint with Markus Mobius, Paul Neihaus, and Tanya Rosenblat)

10:30-11:00     Break

11:00-11:45     Nava Ashraf: "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks" (joint with Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack)

11:45-12:30     Ulrike Malmendier: "You Owe Me"
(joint with Klaus Schmidt)

12:30-2:00     Lunch On Site (with a takeaway option for those with early flights)