Lisa Spantig
@lisaspantig.com
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Observations about (academic) life.
Interested in Behavioral, Development & Experimental Economics
Current research: Financial Inclusion and Honesty
www.lisaspantig.com
Observations about (academic) life.
Interested in Behavioral, Development & Experimental Economics
Current research: Financial Inclusion and Honesty
www.lisaspantig.com
Not sure the university approves so many parties.
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Not sure the university approves so many parties.
Academic job markets are weird:
You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).
You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Academic job markets are weird:
You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).
You are sad and disappointed when you don't get the job you interviewed for, but you are also happy for the person who got it (as you usually know them quite well).
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
"Da hast du jetzt eher uns rekrutiert als umgekehrt."
Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren.
effektiv-spenden.org
Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren.
effektiv-spenden.org
Effektiv Spenden | Besser spenden mit Experten
Auf Basis wissenschaftlicher Studien und Analysen unabhängiger Experten empfehlen wir die weltweit wirksamsten Hilfsorganisationen.
effektiv-spenden.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Da hast du jetzt eher uns rekrutiert als umgekehrt."
Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren.
effektiv-spenden.org
Evtl habe ich gerade den beiden Fundraiserinnen, die an unserer Tür geklingelt haben, so eindrücklich von Effektiv Spenden erzählt, dass sie von dem Konzept ganz angetan waren.
effektiv-spenden.org
Wenn man heute mit einem Adventskalender anfängt, schafft man zwei bis Weihnachten!
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Wenn man heute mit einem Adventskalender anfängt, schafft man zwei bis Weihnachten!
Just to be clear:
I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one?
For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow.
Either way, it will be interesting!
I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one?
For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow.
Either way, it will be interesting!
How strong are contrast effects?
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just to be clear:
I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one?
For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow.
Either way, it will be interesting!
I expect a contrast in the polishedness of the papers, simply because: have you ever written a more polished paper than your job market one?
For the talks: I will still need to put mine together, so that's another thing to find out tomorrow.
Either way, it will be interesting!
How strong are contrast effects?
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
How strong are contrast effects?
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
Join us at the U Penn seminar and find out:
After @vasilisawerner.bsky.social presents her super-polished (former JM) paper, "Destructive Communication", I will present "Individual Preferences for Truth-Telling".
Tomorrow, 7 pm CET. Registration: shorturl.at/mD1qe
If the email of the company your employer hired to teach you about phishing looks so suspicious that you delete it immediately...
...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later...
...it will surely be a very successful training!
...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later...
...it will surely be a very successful training!
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If the email of the company your employer hired to teach you about phishing looks so suspicious that you delete it immediately...
...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later...
...it will surely be a very successful training!
...and your employer first notifies you about this upcoming training more than an hour later...
...it will surely be a very successful training!
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...
Mein Bruder beschwert sich, dass das Bewerbungsverfahren für seinen neuen Job lange gedauert hat.
"Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!"
Ich: "August 2025?"
Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft.
#IchBinHanna
"Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!"
Ich: "August 2025?"
Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft.
#IchBinHanna
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Mein Bruder beschwert sich, dass das Bewerbungsverfahren für seinen neuen Job lange gedauert hat.
"Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!"
Ich: "August 2025?"
Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft.
#IchBinHanna
"Ich hab mich Anfang August beworben und erst Ende September Rückmeldung erhalten!"
Ich: "August 2025?"
Die Länge der deutschen Berufungsverfahren hat mich abgestumpft.
#IchBinHanna
"A castle!"
"This is a large church."
"Who lives in the church?"
"Nobody."
"Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one."
My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.
"This is a large church."
"Who lives in the church?"
"Nobody."
"Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one."
My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.
October 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"A castle!"
"This is a large church."
"Who lives in the church?"
"Nobody."
"Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one."
My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.
"This is a large church."
"Who lives in the church?"
"Nobody."
"Why does nobody live there? It is a house. And a big one."
My niece (4) is visiting the city and asking good questions.
This is one of my favorite conferences!
Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments.
Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼
Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments.
Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼
Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍
Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏
To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀
Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏
To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀
September 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This is one of my favorite conferences!
Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments.
Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼
Relatively small, great discussions and a variety of topics studied with the same methodology - field experiments.
Thank you so much for organizing it, @henninghermes.com @lergetporer.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social! 🙏🏼
My paper on designing and analyzing powerful experiments is now up online at Fiscal Studies. Here is my shareable link for free access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
Excited to share that during my most recent conference trip, I realized my French is not sufficient to discuss the digital euro. With a cab driver. After midnight.
August 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Excited to share that during my most recent conference trip, I realized my French is not sufficient to discuss the digital euro. With a cab driver. After midnight.
Why LLMs are not a substitute for humans in research on human behavior:
Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up.
Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone.
#Econsky
Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up.
Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone.
#Econsky
Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12):
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950
Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology
Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...
arxiv.org
August 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Why LLMs are not a substitute for humans in research on human behavior:
Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up.
Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone.
#Econsky
Human participants were responsive to semantic nuances that LLMs didn't pick up.
Example: Cut their beard to shame someone vs cut their beard to shave someone.
#Econsky
What a surprise. Not.
'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What a surprise. Not.
I present to you the ultimate filing cabinet for old and resting (let's be honest: abandoned) projects, well hidden under a staircase in the back entrance of a local government office.
August 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I present to you the ultimate filing cabinet for old and resting (let's be honest: abandoned) projects, well hidden under a staircase in the back entrance of a local government office.
🚨New paper alert!
"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"
Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵
w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger
arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"
Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵
w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger
arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research
Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...
arxiv.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
#Econsky 🚀 Call for Presenters for our 2025–26 Seminar Series at the 21st Century India Center, UCSD.
Nominate yourself 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nominate yourself 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series on the Indian Economy - Self-Nomination Form
The goal of the UC San Diego 21st Century India Center Seminar Series is to provide a platform for junior scholars to share their research on the Indian economy, engage with our community of scholars,...
docs.google.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#Econsky 🚀 Call for Presenters for our 2025–26 Seminar Series at the 21st Century India Center, UCSD.
Nominate yourself 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nominate yourself 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Bad: being on leave the week before the exam.
Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place).
Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.
Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place).
Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.
July 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Bad: being on leave the week before the exam.
Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place).
Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.
Even worse: being on leave the week before going to the field for data collection (at the same time that the exam takes place).
Booking vacation half a year in advance may not be ideal.
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
Have a research idea related to philanthropy, particularly measuring the impact of our work? Get in touch! Perhaps we could partner to implement it at Arnold Ventures. You know I love a good causal study.
July 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Have a research idea related to philanthropy, particularly measuring the impact of our work? Get in touch! Perhaps we could partner to implement it at Arnold Ventures. You know I love a good causal study.
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.
Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.
I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.
github.com/bretthollenb...
Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.
I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.
github.com/bretthollenb...
July 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.
Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.
I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.
github.com/bretthollenb...
Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.
I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.
github.com/bretthollenb...
Reposted by Lisa Spantig
We're hiring! I'm looking for a PhD student in Economics (75%, E13) to join my team at TUM Campus Heilbronn starting Oct 2025. Work on field & survey experiments in applied micro, behavioral econ & econ of education. Deadline: June 30. Please share!
Call for applications: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6
Call for applications: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6
June 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We're hiring! I'm looking for a PhD student in Economics (75%, E13) to join my team at TUM Campus Heilbronn starting Oct 2025. Work on field & survey experiments in applied micro, behavioral econ & econ of education. Deadline: June 30. Please share!
Call for applications: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6
Call for applications: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6