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Peter Matthews

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Dana Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read all about it! Read all about it! @middecon.bsky.social faculty Zara Contractor and Germán Reyes on AI in the NY Times! nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?
We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@middecon.bsky.social faculty Zara Contractor and Germán Reyes's work on AI and learning as been featured in The Economist! www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Does AI stop children from learning?
New data show the peril and promise of the technology
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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A Deal Can Be Legal, Profitable, And Still Look Like Exploitation
Over 2,000 people share a consistent sense of when a business deal becomes exploitation, with direct implications for how leaders price and negotiate their deals.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It was gratifying to see our original paper published in the American Journal of Political Science, but it’s downright fun to see the research featured in Forbes and Jacobin, two outlets that could hardly be more different! jacobin.com/2026/08/expl...
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The Left and Right Share a Moral Theory of Exploitation
A new study finds that people across the political spectrum share a remarkably similar understanding of exploitation: the unjust use of power to secure unequal outcomes.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Letting the impressive @willhpyle.bsky.social of @middecon.bsky.social speak for himself …
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Congratulations on this milestone achievement!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks to Topi, Kaisa, Michael, Satu and Xu for allowing me to join the fun.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Congratulations, Zara and Germán!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I know him!
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two @middecon.bsky.social colleagues, @caitlinmyers.bsky.social and @dmunro.bsky.social, join formidable forces in this NBER WP. www.nber.org/papers/w35333
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Playing it Safe? The Effect of Abortion Bans on Sexual Behavior
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yes indeed. Go Tanya! You're an inspiration to all of us.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Delighted to have been able to tag along on this cross-disciplinary (economics, philosophy, political science) adventure, and thankful to @ajpseditor.bsky.social.
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
For those in the neighborhood, @willhpyle.bsky.social will give the next talk in the 2025/26 Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Hillcrest 103. The topic is Russian Public Opinion, the War in Ukraine, and the Lingering Effects of the Soviet Collapse.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Congratulations indeed!
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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
From forthcoming EJ Special Issue on Polarization in Field Experiments: ‘Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms’ by Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf062 @andrearobbett.bsky.social ‬ @phminvt.bsky.social @albertobisin.bsky.social
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Fortunate to collaborate with so many wonderful smart economists …
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data" by Xiaogeng Xu, Satu Metsälampi, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data
(Forthcoming Article)
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fascinating, topical, paper by Andrea and co-authors on partisanship and hiring.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Well done, Kristina.
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@middecon.bsky.social's Kristina Sargent has had a very busy fall! Read her newest, on migration and colonial occupation in Economic History of Developing Regions. Congratulations, Kristina! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration
Colonialism has important effects for former colonies, and despite the long colonial history between Europe and Africa, the nuances of the impacts of that history are relatively understudied. The c...
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thanks. Yes, but even I would draw the line at mixing Whoppers and löyly.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Absolutely delighted to have renewed my Visiting Distinguished Professor contract @aalto.fi School of Business. To quote Sally Field's Oscar speech, "I can't deny the fact that you like me!" Or that I like you back.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Well done, Will and Kristina!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Well done, Germán and Zara!
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations, @drerinwolcott.bsky.social!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The addition of a new co-author – and former RA – Josh Foster, Ivey, changed everything, and “Auctions for Risk-Averse Non-Profits" is now conditionally accepted at the Journal of Public Economics which, I note with some gratitude, has been very good to me/us over the last decade or two.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#3. Longtime co-author and friend Jeff Carpenter and I despaired, I think, of ever finishing the final paper in a research program on charity auctions, one that would bring together extensive lab and field data to provide a more complete characterization of both theoretical and empirical results.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It adopts an experimental approach to infer what both experts – a large panel of philosophers – and the public adopt as “building blocks” in their understandings of exploitation, with sometimes surprising results.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#2. “What Exploitation Is” was co-authored with Ben Ferguson, a philosopher at Warwick, and two other economists, Roberto Veneziani at Queen Mary, and David Ronayne at ESMT Berlin, and should appear soon in the American Journal of Political Science (!)
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We all “know” that relative status matters, but is there causal evidence of whom we compare ourselves to, and how it matters? This paper, an experiment conducted in co-operation with Statistics Finland, provides just this evidence. Look for sequels soon!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It has now undergoing final checks at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and it embodies the hard work of a wonderful and diverse team: Topi Miettinen at Hanken, Kaisa Kotakorpi at Tampere, Michael Kirchler at Innsbruck, Satu Metsälampi at Turku and Xiaogeng Xu, then of Hanken.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#1. I am perhaps most pleased about “Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data,” which has been several years, and many presentations and drafts, in the making.
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’ll share more about the papers themselves soon, but I just wanted to celebrate with three quite different “teams,” and thank three quite different journals, now ...
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
What a start to summer! An unexpected “health shock” has left me on the sidelines for a couple of weeks – and in the hospital for one of them – but on either side of this, news of three conditional acceptances, which is as productive as I have ever been!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.addisonindependent.com/2025/05/05/c...
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College faculty plan walkout amid budget cuts | Addison Independent
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
More from colleagues Raphaelle and Akhil on the economic consequences of wilddfires on @marketplace.org. Well done!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I don't re-post a lot of articles, but this one deserves wide circulation ...
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Well done, @akhilrao.bsky.social!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
There is a lot of brainpower in Warner Hall ...
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Delighted for colleagues Raphaelle and Akhil to see their fascinating work featured in @nytimes.com.
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Middlebury College Economics @middecon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Big congratulations to @middecon faculty member Erick Gong, who was just promoted to full professor! Bravo, Erick!
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Peter Matthews @phminvt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Likewise, please.
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Andrea Robbett @andrearobbett.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
The MiddExLab Virtual Experimental Economics seminar series resumes next week! The talks are Thursdays at noon Eastern (NYC time) and all are welcome. Please sign up here to receive the Zoom links: sites.google.com/view/middexl... #econsky @ihaal.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social
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