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The ESA is a professional organization devoted to using controlled experiments to learn about economic behavior. Retweets are not endorsements. economicscience.org Joined July 2019-
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The ESA Fellows are a lifetime recognition to those who have advanced the frontier of knowledge in economics through the use of laboratory and/or field experiments. The 2025 ESA Fellows are: Mark Isaac, Rosemarie Nagel, Robert Sugden, Lise Vesterlund and James Walker.
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The 2025 ESA Prize for Exceptional Achievement honours those overcoming Challenges to make impactful contributions to exp. econ. Prof. Erin Krupka has impressive work on social norms and on incentivized norm elicitation techniques that have become a cornerstone in the field.
The 2025 ESA Young Scholar Prize recognizes those who have made a significant methodological contribution to experimental economics. Prof. Christine Exley is recognized for her research on motivated reasoning, charitable giving, and gender and for its innovative designs
The Editors’ Prize for the best paper published in Experimental Economics in 2023 to "Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences: A Bayesian Approach" by Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn W. Harrison, and Rusty Tchernis. Congratulations! Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s10683…
Once the ESA World Meeting in Beijing has past, the new ESA African Meeting will take place in Nairobi from June 25th, esaafrica2025.busara.global
The 2025 ESA World Meeting will be held at the Renmin University of China in Beijing from June 6th to June 8th, 2025. Keynote speakers are Charles Noussair, Soo Hong Chew and Lise Vesterlund. econ.ruc.edu.cn/ESA2025/
Submissions for the 2025 North American ESA Meeting in Tucson (Oct 9-12) are now open at economicscience.org . Plenary speakers include Christine Exley, Ernst Fehr and Michael Kremer. There will also be a symposium in honor of James C. Cox.
Upcoming ESA Conferences: World Meeting (Beijing, June 6), África (Nairobi, June 25), Europe (Brno, Sept 3) and North América (Tucson, Oct 10). economicscience.org
Please submit your nominations for ESA awards and fellows by the April 1 deadline. This includes young scholar, distinguished service, exceptional achievement and Fellow awards. More info and nominations here: tinyurl.com/ESAAwards
Please consider answering the ESA Survey regarding IRB practices. We are interested in gathering a Comprehensive view of practices on this important issue : uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ea…
Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…
The Economic Science Association @EcScienceAssoc is now also on BSKy. Follow us at @EcScienceAssoc.bsky.social
Conference and symposium to celebrate Jim Cox's career and his contributions to the field of experimental economics: sites.google.com/view/celebrati…
On Jan 3rd, the ESA held 3 sessions at the ASSA meetings in SF. They were "Measuring Beliefs", "Polarization, Trust, and Institutions", and "Psychological Motivations Underlying Economic Interactions". We’d like to thank speakers and organizers for their excellent presentations
In December, the ESA held the 3rd annual ESA-BREW-India conference at Ashoka University. It was very successful and the ESA thanks Srijita Ghosh and the rest of the organizing committee for putting on a great event!
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