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July 19, 2019

Recent awards and grants for briq researchers

CESifo Prize, SOEP Innovation Sample, IGC Grant

Chris Roth won the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award in Employment and Social Protection for his paper on Beliefs about Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies. In this joint work with Ingar Haaland (University of Bergen), he shows that Democrats and Republicans differ substantially in their beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. While these differences become smaller as people are exposed to scientific evidence, this does not lead to a similar convergence in support for pro-black policies to combat racial discrimination.

Together with Simon Jäger (MIT) and Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley), Chris also successfully applied for inclusion of survey questions in the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS), which offers great potential as a source of household micro-data, particularly for researchers seeking specific information on households or on people’s opinions.

Matt Lowe was awarded a grant by the International Growth Centre in support of the delivery of the IGC India (Bihar) program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He will use the funds for a joint project on “Norm Transmission among Bureaucrats” with Ray Fisman (Boston University) and Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut).

Chris Roth

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Before joinig briq as a post-doc, Chris studied economics at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. His fields of specialization are economics & psychology, applied microeconometrics, and political economy. He is especially interested in the role of subjective beliefs in shaping economic and political behavior. Chris' work has examined a variety of topics, such as attitudes towards immigration, beliefs about racial discrimination, experimenter demand effects, the formation of macroeconomic expectations, and the determinants of political engagement. Methodologically, his work relies on online experiments, natural field experiments and laboratory experiments.

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Matt Lowe

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Having completed his PhD at MIT, Matt came to briq as a post-doc and will be joining the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor of Economics this year. His research is at the intersection of development, political economy, and behavioural economics. His ongoing work uses field and natural experiments to explore the consequences of intergroup contact in India and Iceland, the role of intra-household barriers to communication in lowering female labour force participation in India, and the importance of visibility for political careers in the UK. His aspirational work studies preference formation of elite Indian bureaucrats, and pricing decisions among small-scale Delhi entrepreneurs.

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