I was a discussant at the AEAs in the panel
"Informing Household Saving Decisions: Plan Features and Interventions"
on January 8th. I discussed "How Financial Literacy and Impatience
Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors" by Olivia Mitchell
and Justine Hastings. Download
my
slides [here] [January 09,
2012]
I was visiting the Financial Literacy Center at
the George
Washington University School of
Business the week of December 5th-8th, and presented on my work on
visual analytics for financial planning. [December 03,
2011]
I presented "Visibility of
Contributors and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods" at
the George
Mason
University
ICES
Brown
Bag series on December 8th. [December 03,
2011]
I co-organized the Annual International
Meetings of the Economic Science Association, which were held here at
the Univeristy of Chicago in July. [July 18,
2010]
We received a grant from Cornell to investigate
using behavioral economics to impact child food choice in the
lunchroom. [June 1, 2011]
I presented at the annual BeFi
conference on visual analytics and financial decision making. [May 20, 2011]
I presented our paper, "An Experimental Study
of Information Search and Decision-Making with Interactive Technology,"
at a RAND Seminar (authored with Ji Soo Yi, Inkyoung Hur and Sung-Hee
Kim). [May 20, 2011]
I presented our paper, "Giving Behavior Among
Young Children: Experimental Evidence of Pure Altruism" at the
IFREE/ESI seminar at Chapman University (authored with John List). [March 15, 2011]
I received two subawards from the Social
Security Administration for my work on applied visual analytics for
financial planning, one through the Center for Financial Security and
another through the Financial Literacy Center. [January 15, 2011]
I presented "Visibility of
Contributions and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods"
(joint with Roman Sheremeta) at the Economic Science Association World
Meetings in Copenhagen. Special thanks to the nanoHUB for funding
this set of projects. [May
28, 2010]
I was invited to give a talk at the Krannert School of Management
alumni board meeting in April. I discussed my
interdisciplinary research and collaboration with various labs on
campus and the knowledge gained from doing work in experimental
economics. [April
1,
2010]
I gave a talk on Visual Presentation in a
graduate class at Purdue University. Concepts from visualization and
perception can be used to give a more effective research talk,
maximizing information transfer to the audience. [April 1,
2010]
I gave a talk at the Center
for
Neuroeconomics
at
New
York
University in March as part of the
Neuroeconomics Colloquium. I presented my joint work with the Purdue HIVE
lab on multi-attribute object selection. [March 04, 2010]
I gave a talk about applications of visual
analytics to financial decision making in all stages of the lifecycle
at the planning meeting on How to Research the Design &
Presentation of Financial Options to Retirees at NYU. [Nov. 8,
2009]
We received a research grant from the NSF's
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) for the next 3
years of
work on Applied Visual Analytics for Economic Decision Making (PI:
David S. Ebert; Co-Investigators: Anya Savikhin, Tim Cason, David
Hummels). [Aug. 12, 2009]
