Special Online Conference on Experimental Insights from Behavioral Economics on Covid-19
Friday 12th and Friday 19th February 2021
A joint event by the JHU Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) and the LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science (PBS)
Please follow the link for Asynchronous Pre-Recorded Presentations
Preliminary Program
Day 1 – Friday, February 12, 2021
Please CLICK HERE for the Day 1 Recording
9:00-10:10 EST / 14:00-15:10 GMT
Welcome: Organizers Matteo Galizzi (London School of Economics) and Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University)
Cass Sunstein
Keynote #1: Cass Sunstein (Harvard University): The FEAST Framework for Behavioral Change
10:15-11:35 EST / 15:15-16:35 GMT
Contributed session #1:
Marta Serra-Garcia (UC San Diego) Defaults Increase COVID-19 Test and Prevention Demand, but not Vaccination Preferences
Andre Hofmeyr (University of Cape Town) Subjective beliefs and economic preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gyula Seres (Humboldt University Berlin) Face Mask Use and Physical Distancing Before and After Mandatory Masking: Evidence From Public Waiting Lines
Rick Wilson (Rice University) Location, location, location: Boosting vaccine uptake in minority populations
Chair: Aditi Sen (Johns Hopkins University)
Sunita Sah
11:40-12:55 EST / 16:40-17:55 GMT
Panel session: Improving Pandemic Response with Experiments and Behavioral Economics
Panel Lead: Sunita Sah (Cornell University). Speakers: Alison Buttenheim (University of Pennsylvania) Johannes Haushofer (Stockholm University), Nicholas Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University), Wändi Bruine de Bruin (University of Southern California).
Day 2 – Friday, February 19, 2021
8:30-9:55 EST / 13:30-14:55 GMT
Contributed session #2:
Molly Crockett (Yale University): Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis
Lorenz Goette (University of Bonn and National University of Singapore) Does information about local COVID-19 incidence increase the use of digital contact tracing apps?
Hannah Julienne (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin) Behavioral pre-testing of COVID Tracker, Ireland’s contact-tracing app
Armando Meier (University of Lausanne) Anticipation of Covid-19 vaccine reduces social distancing
Chair: TBC
Katy Milkman
10:00-11:00 EST / 15:00-16:00 GMT
Keynote #2: Katy Milkman (University of Pennsylvania) Can Behaviorally-Informed Messages Help Encourage Vaccination?
11:05-12:05 EST / 16:05-17:05 GMT
Contributed session #3:
James Allen (University of Michigan) Accelerating Changes in Norms about Social Distancing to Combat COVID‐19 in Developing Countries
Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh) To Mask or Not to Mask: Salience of Risk and the Efficacy of Government Messaging
Sebastian Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) Nudging or Paying? A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of measures to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh
Chair: TBC
George Loewenstein
12:10-13:10 EST / 17:10-18:10 GMT
Keynote #3: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University) Covid-19 and Climate Change
