Mattie Toma

ECBE conference Next ECBE: July 9-10, 2026 University of Chicago

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2026

It's that time of year: Help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers!

UChicago, July 9-10, 2026

Deadline to submit: December 15, 2025

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Numbers Tell, Words Sell - Michael Thaler, Mattie Toma and Victor Yaneng Wang When communicating numeric estimates with policymakers, journalists, or the general public, experts must choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether exper...

Numbers Tell, Words Sell, the new working paper by Michael Thaler, @mattietoma.bsky.social and Victor Yaneng Wang is now available to read here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/thaler-toma-...