As part of the Student Impact Essay Award jointly organized by SABE and TFI, the 2019 winners of this student contest were interviewed by TFI for their high quality essays and outstanding achievement.
Please find the interviews with the winners at thinkforwardinitiative.com
This series of Special Issues is prompted by a global pandemic so serious that it will change all our lives irredeemably. Economic impacts in terms of macroeconomic and financial instability are going to persist for many years. Rises in unemployment around the world are already staggering. Other wider impacts on economic and social welfare are unfolding each day – including impacts in terms of increasing inequality and falling wellbeing and life satisfaction. Anyone who has experienced unemployment will know that unemployment is not just about losing a regular income. Unemployment is also about losing social connectedness and a sense of purpose. For those who are not able to return to work quickly, they will also suffer a loss of skills, disillusionment with the job search process and – potentially – a struggle to convince potential employers of their value when their CV shows a long break away from work.
These stresses will be harder to navigate for those who live alone and cannot easily access the social and community support. Those who live unhappy, at worst violent, home lives have little escape. By 24 April 2020, according to World Health Organisation Situation Reports, there had been 175,694 deaths around the world – with a much larger number of bereaved family and friends, most of whom are having to navigate their grief through an extended period of social isolation when social isolation is exactly what a grieving person needs to avoid. These impacts are hard enough for those who lead otherwise affluent lives in countries with relatively good social safety nets. Many more around the world live in over-crowded conditions in poor countries without social safety nets, where political conditions are oppressive at the best of times. Large numbers of others are suffering the severe consequences of this pandemic in refugee camps and urban slums, where their already limited life chances are now dwindling rapidly.
So, now more than ever, policymakers around the world are in urgent need of powerful and transdisciplinary policy insights. Behavioural economics and behavioural science have a great deal to contribute to policy-makers’ knowledge, not only around the science and epidemiology of the virus itself, but also how to mitigate against the terrible and wide-ranging ramifications of this disease – a disease with impacts we could not have imagined just 3 months ago.
Submission details
JBEP is seeking papers for three Special Issues on COVID-19, with an issue each on short-term, medium-term and long-term insights and impacts.
If you would like to contribute to the COVID-19 Special Issues, please send your paper to sabejbep@gmail.com.
Your paper should be short (2-4,000 words) and evidence-based. It should be easily intelligible and useful for policymakers as well as academic researchers. It can address key policy insights relevant to pandemics generally as well as COVID-19 specifically. We will continue to accept submissions for these Special Issues through 2020.
Enquiries about this series of Special Issues can be directed to the JBEP Editor-in-Chief – Prof Michelle Baddeley, University of Technology Sydney (michelle.baddeley@uts.edu.au).
Dear colleagues,
we would like to announce that the deadline for submitting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or the Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020 has been both extended until April 30, 2020. See below for the updated call for proposals.
Best regards,
Behnud
Dear colleagues,
The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is inviting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020.
The ASSA is a three-day meeting organized by the American Economic Association (AEA) in conjunction with 58 associations from related disciplines. In 2021 the meeting will take place in Chicago, IL (January 3-5, Hyatt Regency Chicago). The ASSA meeting is very prestigious and therefore of significant importance to SABE. Previous SABE sessions at the ASSA can be found here: 2018, 2019, 2020.
The 90th Annual Meeting of the SEA will be held in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Marriott, November 21-23, 2020 (Saturday to Monday). The Southern Economic Association is one of the oldest economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928.
If you are interested in organizing the SABE Session with the focus on Behavioral Economics, please fill out the Session Proposal Application and send it along with a PDF version of your CV to assa@sabeconomics.org by April 30, 2020.
Please note that priority for organizing the ASSA session of SABE will be given to applicants who have not done so in the past 3 years.
In addition, while a tentative proposal is generally acceptable, a detailed, confirmed, and well thought-out proposal is appreciated, and will be preferred over a more tentative proposal, all things equal.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome no later than May 14, 2020.
Please forward this email to scholars who might be interested in this call for proposals.
Looking forward to your application
Shabnam Mousavi Alexis Belianin
SABE President SABE Executive Director
Dear colleagues,
The year of 2020 has offered to all of us an unusual challenge of global coronovirus infection, which affected literally all aspects of human life. Academic activities are not an exception: many scientists have already had to miss scheduled research and seminar visits, and saw many academic meetings cancelled.
SABE shares these concerns, and supports all measures necessary to fight pandemic spread of coronovirus: : public health remains of primary importance to all. We urge all members of our international community to be vigilant, and take all necessary precautionary measures for yourself and your relatives.
At the same time, we do not believe it’s a right time to break our academic connections, including our major meeting: the 2020 Annual conference to be held on July 22-26 in Moscow, Russia. At the moment, the country undertakes rather serious measures, including restrictions on public meetings applied till the end of June. While it is difficult to foresee what will happen then, so far there are good chances that situation will gradually improve, which will allow to conduct the SABE2020 Annual meeting as scheduled.
But we want to say more. The challenge of the COVID-2019 should be responded not by segregation, but by the unification of global communities, including that of SABE. We are committed to bring people together, and will do everything to facilitate our meeting of leading behavioural researchers from all over the world to share their new ideas, subject them to scientific discussion, and productive development of tools and mechanisms to meet global challenges. With this aim, and in order to give all interested academics the chance to be involved in this process, we extend the deadline for proposals submissions to the #SABE2020 till Monday April 6. We shall monitor the situation, and shall inform all members of our community about further developments. In case of any real danger, we will be working towards organization of our conference in online format, as a series of virtual meetings accessible to anyone around the globe.
Take care, and let us stay in touch
The #SABE2020 organizing team
Dear colleagues,
The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is inviting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020.
The ASSA is a three-day meeting organized by the American Economic Association (AEA) in conjunction with 58 associations from related disciplines. In 2021 the meeting will take place in Chicago, IL (January 3-5, Hyatt Regency Chicago). The ASSA meeting is very prestigious and therefore of significant importance to SABE. Previous SABE sessions at the ASSA can be found here: 2018, 2019, 2020.
The 90th Annual Meeting of the SEA will be held in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Marriott, November 21-23, 2020 (Saturday to Monday). The Southern Economic Association is one of the oldest economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928.
If you are interested in organizing the SABE Session with the focus on Behavioral Economics, please fill out the Session Proposal Application and send it along with a PDF version of your CV to assa@sabeconomics.org by March 30, 2020.
Please note that priority for organizing the ASSA session of SABE will be given to applicants who have not done so in the past 3 years.
In addition, while a tentative proposal is generally acceptable, a detailed, confirmed, and well thought-out proposal is appreciated, and will be preferred over a more tentative proposal, all things equal.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome no later than April 15, 2020.
Please forward this email to scholars who might be interested in this call for proposals.
Looking forward to your application
Shabnam Mousavi Alexis Belianin
SABE President SABE Executive Director
This award is established to promote socially applicable results emanating from students’ research. We are grateful to all students who took the time to translate their findings into an accessible essay for this purpose, a trend that this award aims at expanding early on along the academic career path.
It is with pleasure that we announce those submissions that are chosen to be recognized for 2019:
HONORABLE MENTION for laudable conduct of research:
Mesfin G. Genie, “To wait or not to wait: Preference heterogeneity in kidney transplantation“
SECOND PLACE for tackling sensitive large-scale topics:
Domenica Romeo, “Assessing relational coordination in the health sector: an experimental approach”
Feidhlim McGowan, “Why accumulation bias matters for financial decision making?”
FIRST PLACE for relatable focus on financial wellbeing
Rolando Gonzalez Martinez, “Enhancing well-being at the bottom-of-the-pyramid with Nano-finance plus”
Congratulations to award recipients from the evaluation committee,
Gerrit Antonides, Ian Bright, Pete Lunn, and Shabnam Mousavi.
Dear SABE community,
It is with a heavy heart that we write to share with you the sad news that John Tomer the founding father of SABE has passed away and was cremated last week.
John made huge personal sacrifices for SABE and for behavioral economic research. SABE recognized his services in Dublin last September at our IAREP -SABE conference with a lifetime dedication award.
He played tennis until the end and was working on a new book. His humility, persistence and engaging spirit will stay on with us as we move our society forward to achieve what John envisioned and pursued over the past four decades.
Shabnam Mousavi
SABE President