Talks

Recent Talks

When Do Nudges Increase Welfare? St. Gallen Workshop on Environmental Policy and Evaluation. January 20, 2023.
Digital Addiction. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. July 12, 2022.
Digital Addiction. NBER Summer Institute. July 22, 2021.
An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact. NBER Summer Institute. July 12, 2021.
Targeting Environmental Nudges. Behavioral Science and Policy Association Annual Conference. May 6, 2021.
Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence. Tobacco Online Policy Seminar. January 7, 2021. Video.Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending. California Department of Consumer Protection and Innovation. January 7, 2021.
Digital Addiction. Behavior Change for Good Seminar, Wharton. October 26, 2020. Video.
Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending. Advances with Field Experiments Seminar, University of Chicago. June 24, 2020. Video.
Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Economic Effects of COVID-19 Workshop, University of Chicago. April 30, 2020.
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality. Center for Disease Control Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network seminar. April 13, 2020.
Behavioral Welfare Evaluation of Consumer Protection Policies. Consumer Protection Economics Symposium, Federal Trade Commission. December 7, 2018. Video.
Fake News and the Welfare Effects of Social Media. Technology Policy Institute, Washington DC. December 7, 2018.
Energy Efficiency Program Evaluation. Evaluating Residential Energy Efficiency Programs - A Path Forward, University of Chicago. October 12, 2017.
Using Field Experiments for Policy Evaluation. Advances with Field Experiments Conference, University of Chicago. September 14, 2017.
Evaluating Energy Efficiency. Conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate Change, Toulouse. June 7, 2017. Video.
Is Energy Efficiency Well-Targeted? American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study. August 23, 2016
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Nudges. Behavioral Exchange Conference, Harvard Business School. June 6, 2016. Video.

Podcasts

Behavioral economics and public policy, with Evan Rose. Microsoft Research Podcast, June 16, 2021.
Media and public opinion, with David Rothschild. Microsoft Research Podcast, June 10, 2021.
Causal machine learning, with Greg Lewis. Microsoft Research Podcast. June 2, 2021.
Criminal justice, with Evan Rose. Microsoft Research Podcast. May 19, 2021.