PhD course on The Behavioral Economics of Beliefs and Misperceptions - field experiments, registers, and surveys

[Erik Wengström]

Dear ESA Community,

We are excited to announce a PhD course on "The Behavioral Economics of Beliefs and Misperceptions - field experiments, registers, and surveys". The course will focus on the study of beliefs, perceptions, and information, and how these factors influence economic behavior. There will be a specific emphasis on methods that combine experiments, register data, and survey data.

The course consists of two in-person sessions combined with online sessions. The first in-person session will be on September 9 in Helsinki, right after the ESA European Meeting with lectures by Leonardo Bursztyn (Chicago) and Ingvild Almås (IIES). The final session will be in Lund on November 21 with a lecture by Alexia Delfino (Bocconi) in conjunction with a workshop of the Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economists. Students will be asked to attend at least one of the events on site (and the other online).

In between these events, there will be series of online lectures by: Luigi Butera, Pol Campos-Mercade, Jon de Quidt, Adeline Delavande, Ingar Haaland and Felix Holzmeister.

The course corresponds to 5 ECTS credits.

For more detail, please visit https://www.esa2024helsinki.fi/phd-course.

Best wishes,

The organizing team, Topi Miettinen, Roel van Veldhuizen and Erik Wengström