2022 Special ESA Meeting, Buenos Aires

Keynote speakers

  • John A. List

  • Robert D. Metcalfe

  • Anya Samek

  • Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Scientific Director, JILAEE.

    John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his B.S. in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wyoming. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, he was a professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland.

    List was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015. He is currently the Visiting Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. He received the Arrow Prize for Senior Economists in 2008, the Kenneth Galbraith Award in 2010, the Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture Prize in 2012, the Klein Lecture Prize in 2016, and the Hartsook Growing Philanthropy Award in 2017. He received an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in 2014 and from the University of Ottawa in 2017. John was also named a Top 50 Innovator in the Non-Profit Times for 2015 and 2016 for his work on charitable giving. He served in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2002-2003 and is a Research Associate at the NBER, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a University Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

    His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. For decades his field experimental research has focused on issues related to the inner-workings of markets, the effects of various incentives schemes on market equilibria and allocations, how behavioral economics can augment the standard economic model, on early childhood education and interventions, and most recently on the gender earnings gap in the gig economy (using evidence from rideshare drivers).

    His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy).

    https://voices.uchicago.edu/jlist/

  • Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Southern California

    Robert Metcalfe is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Southern California. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Boston University, and a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Economics at the University of Chicago. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau and Economic Research and an Academic Affiliate at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Rob’s research lies within applied microeconomics, with a focus on energy markets, transportation, firm and labor productivity, and digital platforms. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He has worked with many organizations such as Uber, Lyft, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Opower, Oracle, British Telecom, and the YMCA. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Imperial College London, respectively. He is also a co-founder of two start-up companies.

  • Associate Professor of Economics, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego

    Anya is an Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and an affiliate of the FAIR Centre at the Norwegian School of Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Purdue University and her postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago. In 2020, I was the recipient of the Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize.She uses experiments to address questions about how economic theory can predict behavior in the areas of education, philanthropy and health. She was a co-founder of the Science of Philanthropy Initiative - a $5m project that brings together academics and charities to conduct experiments that change our understanding of how we do philanthropy. Over the past 10 years, She has managed CHECC, a large-scale education study that follows 2,000 families who were randomly assigned to receive various early childhood programs.Anya has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and they have been featured in popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, Today.com, NPR and the Freakonomics podcast.

    https://anyasamek.com/

 Panel Speakers

  • Catia Batista

  • Luigi Butera

  • Kyle Holloway

  • Gary Charness

  • Ricardo Pérez Truglia

  • Lise Vesterlund

  • Associate Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. Scientific director, Novafrica research center

    Catia Batista is Associate Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, where she is also Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Catia has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education and policy evaluation. Her work, mainly randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments, took place in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University. She is currently a Research Fellow at the international research centers CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL-Europe (Paris, France). Previously, Catia worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University, and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.

    http://www.catiabatista.org/

  • Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School. Co-founder and director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics

    Luigi Butera is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School.

    His research focuses on the intersection of public economics, behavioral economics and experimental economics. He is the co-founder and director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics. He is the recipient of a 2021 DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader Starting Grant. Luigi begun his studies at Bocconi University, where he received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences. He has received his Ph.D. training in Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University and at the Gate Lab, CNRS, and he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Lyon.

    https://www.luigibutera.com/

  • Country Director for Colombia and the Dominican Republic at Innovations for Poverty Action.

    Kyle Holloway is the Country Director for IPA's Colombia and Dominican Republic offices. Previously, Kyle was Senior Program Manager for IPA's Financial Inclusion Program. In this role, he managed an initiative with the Gates Foundation as well as a portfolio of research projects aimed at encouraging voluntary savings among low-income, informal populations in Latin America. Prior to his work with the Financial Inclusion Program, Kyle was a Research Manager for IPA Uganda overseeing a portfolio of evaluations studying outcomes in governance, health, finance, small-business, and gender empowerment. Kyle has an MA in Economics from the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and a BS in Engineering Physics from Taylor University.

  • Profesor, UC Santa Bárbara. Director of the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Laboratory, UC Santa Bárbara.

    Gary Charness is a researcher in Experimental and Behavioral Economics. Some of his research interests include Behavioral Game Theory, Experimental Labor Economics, Communication, Contract Design, Field https://econ.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/gary-charnessInterventions, and Individual Decision Making. He is a member of several editorial boards and a main editor at "Games and Economic Behavior". Gary completed his PhD program at UC Berkeley.

    https://econ.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/gary-charness

  • Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

    Ricardo Perez-Truglia is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business. His research lies at the intersection of behavioral economics, political economy and public economics. Perez-Truglia intends his research to inform firms and policy makers in the developed and developing world, leading to practical applications.

    In 2020, Perez-Truglia was named a Sloan Research Fellow. He received his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2014. Before joining Haas in 2020, he worked at UCLA-Anderson from 2016 to 2020 and at Microsoft Research New England from 2014 to 2016. He grew up in the Ciudadela neighborhood near Buenos Aires.

    https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ricardo-perez-truglia/

  • Professor , University of Pittsburgh. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

    Lise Vesterlund is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. She serves and has served on numerous editorial boards including the American Economic Review, AEJ: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature.

    Vesterlund works in two distinct research areas: charitable giving and gender differences in the labor market. Her work on charitable giving aims to determine why we give to charity, and on how solicitation strategies influence donations to organizations. Her research on gender sheds light on why men continue to be more successful than women in climbing the corporate ladder. She has demonstrated systematic gender differences in behavior when deciding whether to enter a competition or a negotiation, or when asked to perform a non-promotable task. In uncovering the drivers of these differences her work points to mechanisms that can be put in place to secure that the best qualified candidates are those promoted. Her research has been featured by New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Economist, Time Magazine and Harvard Business Review.

    https://sites.pitt.edu/~vester/index.html

Important dates:

Conference Start Date: February 3, 2022 Conference End Date: February 4, 2022

The University of Chicago | UCEMA Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE) is inviting submissions for the 2022 Special ESA Meeting on February 3-4, 2022. We are excited for you to join us (virtually) in Buenos Aires! While we encourage submissions of papers focusing on field experiments in Latin America, all papers including lab and field experiments - conducted anywhere - are welcome!

Preceding the conference, on February 1, JILAEE will host an Early Career Scholars Workshop on Field Experiments for PhD students, postdocs, junior faculty, and other early career economists. The workshop will include a series of lectures on the science of doing field experiments led by John A. List and the JILAEE team. If your students would be interested in attending the workshop, please have them register here: Link. All conference attendees are also invited to attend.

All parts of the three day event will take place virtually.

The conference:

Several 100-minute live parallel sessions will be organized with 20 minutes of slides plus 5 minutes of Q&A for each of four presentations. Besides submitting an abstract for an individual paper, participants are also welcome to submit proposals for complete sessions. If you would like to submit a complete session proposal, please email jilaee.info@gmail.com. All talks will be recorded and posted promptly so that ultimately you will be able to attend any session regardless of your time zone.

Throughout the conference days, we are developing a series of panels and workshops on professional development and research in experimental economics, especially using field experimental methods.

Please note, that you will need to Login to the ESA site for the Submission and Registration links to be active.

We look forward to meeting everyone online on February 1-4, 2022!

Organizing Committee:

Julio J. Elias, John A. List, Julia Seither, Karen J. Ye, Jared Gars, Carolina Bayón Echenique