Associate professor at U Arkansas. At work: Behavioral economics. At home: daycare driver, tennis, woodworking, sci-fi. Opinions are my own.
Fayetteville, AR
Joined April 2010
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Healthy food subsidies are more effective when delivered with an enforced waiting period and shopper agency. In the May issue, by Andy Brownback (@ABrownback), Alex Imas (@alexoimas), and Michael A. Kuhn (@mikeanton13) zurl.co/Op0WR
Andy Brownback retweeted
When students in #CommunityCollege are offered summer school #scholarships, graduation within one year increases by 32% and transfers to four-year colleges increase by 58%, a field experiment by @ABrownback & @SallySadoff reveals. doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0122-121…
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Novel incentivized measures of patience and present-focus predict food spending, consumption, food subsidy choices, and food subsidy treatment effects, from @ABrownback, @alexoimas, and @mikeanton13 nber.org/papers/w31726
Andy Brownback retweeted
NEW: Time Preferences and Food Choice
Read the paper from @ABrownback, @alexoimas (@ChicagoBooth) & @mikeanton13:
Andy Brownback retweeted
Time Preferences and Food Choice - tremendous paper by @alexoimas and colleagues. (The @nberpubs this week are amazingly good; they seem to keep getting better. #ThisIsTrueAndNotGettingBetterBias)
nber.org/papers/w31726
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Agency FTW.
Field experiment by @ABrownback et al delivers healthy food subsidies to low-income families both before and during grocery shopping, and finds more agency leads to significantly increased spend on healthy food: buff.ly/43bUNsN via coauthor @alexoimas
Andy Brownback retweeted
"Healthy food subsidies are more effective when delivered with an enforced waiting period and shopper agency." Just Accepted new paper by Andy Brownback (@ABrownback), Alex Imas (@alexoimas), Michael A. Kuhn (@mikeanton13) zurl.co/R50R
Andy Brownback retweeted
I officially walked for my Ph.D. last month and never made an official announcement. I don't like public celebration but I also know the importance of the visibility of our community accomplishments.
#EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter @firstgendocs #phdchat
Very cool project that details a historical crime that doesn't get talked about enough and a piece of legislation no one knows about: youtu.be/ryTXb9E5KZ4
Andy Brownback retweeted
As @BeneDataTrust Director of Policy, Erin Henderlight work w gov to streamline public benefits systems. Join Erin, @PittEcon health economist @Osea82 & @ABrownback youtu.be/2x11AAv5Juo on discussion of SNAP benefits at #DeCent21 Module B Thurs 5 ET.
Registration close 4/13.
ALT NBER Decentralization 2021 Module B Research to Practice: http://tinyurl.com/DeCent21
Module B discusses resource allocation problems that arise in foster care, reentry (post-incarceration) services, and nutrition aid (SNAP). Presenters include @yanchen @UMICHCS, Alejandro Robinson-Cortés @UofEBusiness, @ABrownback @uawaltoncollege, & @seralinardi @CaasiPitt.
Andy Brownback retweeted
Module B discusses resource allocation problems that arise in foster care, reentry (post-incarceration) services, and nutrition aid (SNAP). Presenters include @yanchen @UMICHCS, Alejandro Robinson-Cortés @UofEBusiness, @ABrownback @uawaltoncollege, & @seralinardi @CaasiPitt.
Andy Brownback retweeted
Do teacher incentives work?
Research from @ABrownback (@UArkansas) and @SallySadoff (@RadySchool) on the impact of performance-based incentives for college instructors:
youtu.be/uqqb3pA_vEY
Andy Brownback retweeted
Announcing program for #DecentralCon2020 @GPSIA Pitt Apr 17-19! tinyurl.com/qrv6lhu. Foster care, housing, @RefugeesAI, education, targeting. Talks: Tuomas Sandholm @muunver @yanchen @t8el L.Doval @ArnostiNick @EconomicDesign @pauljhealy @ABrownback + Research-Practice mixer
Want to know what's happening at #DecentralCon2020 @GSPIA? Check out our conference program: sites.google.com/view/caasi-…
Our speakers are covering a wide array of topics. Follow us for more updates!
#mechanismdesign #HelpingPeopleHelpPeople #econforgood
Andy Brownback retweeted
In today's podcast, @ABrownback
and Sally Sadoff join us to discuss their study of how financial incentives to faculty can affect student outcomes. #teaforteaching #losscontracts #EconTwitter
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Hi #EconTwitter, I am pleased to announce that I am on the job market this year.
My latest working paper, joint with Gordon Dahl @UCSDEcon, is titled, "Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle."
The full paper is available here: sites.google.com/site/mattmk…
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Andy Brownback retweeted
For the second year in a row I conclude the most underrated economics Ph.D students are from University of California, San Diego.
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-Haven’t seen or talked to my family 5 years
-Jailed my dad
-My siblings can’t find jobs
-Revoked my passport
-International arrest warrant
-My family can’t leave the country
-Got Death Threats everyday
-Got attacked, harassed
-Tried to kidnap me in Indonesia
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE – at Boston, MA
Andy Brownback retweeted
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
#NobelPrize
Andy Brownback retweeted
In light of the recent suicides of Alan Krueger and Martin Weitzman, economists & other professionals at risk of aging might find insight in this recent letter penned by Princeton professor emeritus Avinash Dixit.
Thread follows.
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My co-author @ABrownback mentioned this a couple days ago, but we've got a new article just out in GEB: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZUMP…
It's called "Understanding Outcome Bias" and here's why I think it's important:
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