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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️

@avnershlain.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of Marketing @ChicagoBooth. Behavioral economist. PhD @BerkeleyEcon. Husband and father. Improv. www.AvnerShlain.com

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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
When Israeli supermarkets were forced to adjust prices under a reform, firms learned new strategies and improved—but still priced inefficiently. Research by Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ shows how firms learn from experience. ow.ly/IPYm50XjOT1
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Firms Have Partial Knowledge: Evidence from a Reform | Becker Friedman Institute
Economists typically assume that firms are sophisticated and make optimal decisions. Yet, in practice, firms often make mistakes. This study asks why: Do firms know the right action but fail to implement, or do they lack knowledge of the optimal action? To explore this question, Strulov-Shlain examines a 2014 Israeli reform that banned prices ending Read more...
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Impacts of home-care subsidies: Evidence from quasi-random assignment" By Yuval Ofek-Shanny, @avnershlain.bsky.social, & @dzeltzer.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
⛽ For an academic study, we (@akraft.bsky.social and I) wish to interview US Gas Station owners to learn more about their business practices. Please share or send anyone you know to Andreas or me. Thanks!
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Whimsy Planning Commission @whimsypc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We'll be back at Jimmy's on Tuesday 3/25 and EVERY LAST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH! Come once and you'll come again. @abionsky.bsky.social @williamhjhubbard.bsky.social @avnershlain.bsky.social @dfordon.bsky.social @elderserpiente.bsky.social
Whimsy Planning Commission announcing their improv show every last Tuesday of the month at Woodlawn Tap at 7:30pm
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am very happy to share that I am being promoted to Associate Professor of Marketing at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I am incredibly grateful for my family, and for my friends, coauthors, mentors, and colleagues who made it all possible. Excited for the years ahead!
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
No wonder retailers ignore left digit bias. Indoctrination against it starts in school! Cc: @justinsydnor.bsky.social @nicolacetera.bsky.social
A math question for 7th graders in Chicago Public Schools showing a linear relationship between cars odometers and price. Decrease in average car price with discontinuities at 10k miles. From Lacetera Pope and Sydnor (2012)
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
An instant hit paper claimed that "Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity". Re-analysis shows no evidence in support of the claim, and perhaps even the opposite: - The experimental design causes noise to generate the results. - For non-confused participants risk != complexity.
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨 Oprea (2024 AER) argued that prospect theory choice anomalies were not due to risk, but due to complexity-driven mistakes. But this new analysis convinces me that Oprea (2024) is substantially wrong. In my opinion, the paper should be retracted.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In this new working paper we use a real-effort experiment to study the relationship between self-set goals and expectations, and how they affect performance. Do goals affect or reflect expectations? Do goals affect performance, conditional on expectations?
The figure illustrates the study design as a 3x4 between subject experiment. There are 3 Practice Difficulty arms which differ in
the last three tables practiced, cross randomized with 4 Goal Elicitation treatments.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The end of online experiments?
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
in Hebrew we say you are in a state of “emotions storm” or even just “stormed” when having lots of emotions. I am stormed with hope, relief, anxiety, dread, regret, gratitude, anger (to name a few). Welcome back Romi, Emily, and Doron ❤️‍🩹 twitter.com/haaretznewsv...
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הארץ חדשות on X: "רגעי מפגש השבות עם בני משפחותיהן, מהמרכז הרפואי שיבא בתל השומר. קרדיט: עומר מירון / לע"מ https://t.co/24AjD6fhk3" / X
רגעי מפגש השבות עם בני משפחותיהן, מהמרכז הרפואי שיבא בתל השומר. קרדיט: עומר מירון / לע"מ https://t.co/24AjD6fhk3
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A road-trip inspired research idea, free disposal: Estimate the effect of speed limits on accidents by using interstate roads and difference in states limits. E.g, the I-55 is up to 75mph in AK, 70 in MO and 65 crossing to IL. With good enough data can be quite credible IMO.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The best kind of Sufganiyot is Beignets. Happy Hanukkah!
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hotels, venues must disclose “junk fees” to consumers in initial search results Good legislation. The only downside I can think of for consumers is that you can no longer tell yourself (or your spouse) that “it is only $200 a night” when in reality it is $350.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap. If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#econsky I agree that PT is descriptive, and complexity is important in driving choice patterns. But I think that the success of PT and behavioral econ is due to more than just explanatory power. These theories resonate. They are not surprising. The intuition brought the theory and evidence. Story:
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George Wu @geowu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We're looking to hire a Postdoctoral Principal Researcher/Chief Scientist to work with @chicagobooth.bsky.social faculty in the Roman Family Center for Decision Research! Please pass along!
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’m curious — how many of your Spotify end of the year top5 artists would you get right? If you haven’t checked your summary yet even better - guess first and then check and please let us know!
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Folks! Our excellent BFI institute at UChicago is on here, give them a follow. They do an excellent podcast (the PIE) and host great conferences/workshops with open call-for-papers.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A very disturbing logo
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
go.bsky.app/NHpEu1g Is there one already? Please message me to be added
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Look at this cute little angle
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Brad Shapiro @btshapir.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I suggested that the average American might not be angry about asking federal workers to work from the office. I got dog piled. No one looking for an actual discussion. Just name calling. Over 100 messages like this. After a week long experiment, I don't think I can stay here any longer.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
1983 Jerry Seinfeld tells Judd Apatow his vehicle for more exposure is doing quality work. He also says that doing quality work is for his own sake. This is the correct advice for PhD students (and beyond).
Jerry Seinfeld tells Judd Apatow his vehicles for more exposure is doing quality work.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉 The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact. Submit to biom-symposium@umich.edu by *December 15, 2024*.
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Home - Behavioral IO and Marketing
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I didn't log in for a year or so, and suddenly things are happening here! So, new folks - below is a short intro to some of my papers. Since I wrote this thread some of these have been accepted for revisions or publication, and one may be submitted before I become a grandparent. Hard to tell.
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Unnati Narang @unnati.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Letter by Israeli social psychologists reg. the war. Please read and share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/10/2023
This is real. It is a terrible day for the Cornell community.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
What? Anti-Israeli sentiment leads to antisemitic violence? I’m shocked. Shocked! Who would’ve thought?
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Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/w...
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As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies
Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YY... Those who know the region and understand what's happening also know who's responsible for the suffering in Gaza. I recommend taking a few minutes to listen to what Mosab Hassan Yousef has to say.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
🌼New WP 📉📈 How does receiving subsidized in-home care affects the health of sick elders? How does it affect the labor supply and income of their adult children? 🧵 with @dzeltzer.bsky.social and Yuval Ofek-Shanny papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment
We study the impact of subsidizing home-based long-term care on recipients’ health and the labor supply of their working-age children. We use administrative data from Israel on the universe of welfare benefit applications linked with tax records of applicants and their adult children. To address the endogeneity of benefit recipients’ health status, we instrument for benefit receipt using the leniency of randomly assigned evaluators who assess the applicant’s functional status and determine benefit eligibility. We find that for compliers — applicants who receive subsidies only from more lenient evaluators — subsidizing home-based care has large adverse effects on recipient health but no detectable effects on the labor market outcomes of their children. The results are consistent with the crowd-out of self-care for the marginal recipient, 
highlighting the need to assess the heterogeneous effects of home-care subsidies
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
#EconSky We are still accepting applications www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
If you want to free Gaza you need to free it from Hamas. Reminder (or news): Israel left Gaza in 2005. Hamas took over in 2006 and since then did everything in its power to harm Israelis and Gazans alike. It is not fighting for freedom. It’s fighting only for the annihilation of Israel.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Bring them back
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Each empty seat is a hostage. Each one pain, and fear, and praying for their safety, and the resolve to bring them back. Kids, babies, elders, teenagers, friends, cousins, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, grandmas, grandpas, parents. The pain is beyond comprehension. A dark hole in the soul.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Happy 3rd birthday to the goodest Bo
Bo the dog in Promontory point
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Wouldn’t matter for those who blame Israel for everything anyway, and doesn’t reduce the suffering of those affected, but good to get corroboration from the National Security Council.
Adrienne Watson, NSC spokesperson: “While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday”
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Listening to Rona Kenan while reading the news: “Give me a reason to believe That the sorrow has an end.” Amen 🙏🏼 spotify.link/tjgl0h1HYDb
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
I posted yesterday a call to reach out to friends who are suffering due to the situation in Israel and Gaza. Relatively many people liked that message. Hypothesis: Had I not mentioned Palestinian suffering fewer would have. Why? Because they’d assume acknowledging Jewish suffer is taking a side :(
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
199 hostages! 199 kidnapped! And that’s not even the final number. stories.bringthemhomenow.net
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Bring Them Home Now
We demand the safe return of all citizens who have been taken hostage by the terrorist group Hamas. We will not stop until each person is safely returned. With your help, we can bring them home.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
PSA: many of your Israeli, Palestinian, and Jewish friends and colleagues are experiencing trauma and grief right now. Reach out to show you care about them. One human being to another. Politics aside. I’m not okay but I gain much strength and comfort from all of you who did so. Thank you.
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Was video chatting with my mom and an ambulance drove outside our window. The look on her face until I reassured her it’s coming from here and not a siren :(
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
This is like someone saying “my grandmother just died. I’m grieving.” To which another answers “How dare you only think of your grandma right now, you monster, other people died today too.”
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Ending the occupation and “freeing Palestine” requires the removal of Hamas. There can be no safety to Israelis, and definitely no peace, otherwise. Do you want to free Palestine? Hamas is your enemy, not Israel.
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