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In line with the mission and vision of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and in collaboration with the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) a student essay award is initiated to promote the engagement of advanced students in societal enhancement activities, and to disseminate their relevant research at its early stages to the society. This SABE-TFI award intends to encourage junior researchers to write a short IMPACT ESSAY of 1,000-1,200 words based on their academic research that is accessible to general public, and to help them promote their work beyond academia.

Dear colleagues,

the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) seeks for a researcher to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2020. The ASSA is a three-day meeting organized by the American Economic Association (AEA) in conjunction with 58 associations in related disciplines that takes place each January to present papers on general economics topics. In 2020 the meeting will take place in San Diego, CA (January 3-5, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina).

The ASSA meeting is very prestigious and therefore of significant importance to SABE. The SABE sessions organized by our members Shoshana Grossbard in 2018 and by Hernán Bejarano/Mariana Blanco in 2019 can be found here and here.

If you are interested in organizing the SABE Session with the focus on Behavioral Economics please send your CV and a short letter of motivation to assa@sabeconomics.org by March 30, 2019. In your letter of motivation you should state your ideas about the topic you would like to cover, about possible contributors, and which studies you are aiming to include in the according SABE Session. Responses to applicants will be sent no later than April 15, 2019.

Please forward this email to scholars who might be interested in this call for interest.

Looking forward to your application.

Shabnam Mousavi
SABE President

Alexis Belianin
SABE Executive Director

Dear Colleagues,

The following SABE session at the ASSA meeting features different aspects and experimental research on social preferences of not WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democracies) populations.  Please see the program below or click the link below to access more information.  Hope to see you!

https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/846

Best wishes and happy holidays,

Mariana and Hernan

Summary Description
SABE Sessions at the WEAI 2018 Annual Conference

The 93rd Annual conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) took place in Vancouver, British Columbia from June 26 to 30, 2018. The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) organized 11 sessions during this conference.

Scholars came from many institutions across the U.S. (Appalachian State University, Carleton College, City College of New York, Eastern Michigan University, Kent State University, Manhattan College, Morningstar, Skidmore College, Santa Clara University, Seattle University, The New School, University of Central Oklahoma, United States Military Academy, Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania) as well as from across the globe (Ariel University, Corvinus University of Budapest, Halle Institute for Economic Research-Germany, Hang Seng Management College, Institut de Science Financier et Actuarielle, Keiai, University, Nanyang Technological University, STATEC Luxembourg, University of Hamburg, University of Innsbruck, University of Magdeburg, University of Newcastle, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, University of Warwick, Vienna University of Economics and Business).

In the 11 sessions, over 39 papers were presented. Session titles included:

• Honesty, Self-Serving Beliefs, and Deception
• Field Experiments
• Cooperation, Public Goods, and Guilt
• Gender
• Extensions to the Standard Choice Model
• Cooperation, Comparisons, and Social Responsibility
• Happiness, Mood, and Productivity
• Power, Competition, and Order Effects
• Markets, Competition, and Information
• Preferences, Financial Decision-Making, and Decision Architecture
• Climate, the Environment, and Generational Cohorts

Respectfully Submitted,

John Ifcher
Western U.S. Representative, the SABE
Associate Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University