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Los Angeles Experiments (LAX) Conference

Friday, September 27, 2024
10:00am to 5:00pm
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Baxter Lecture Hall
Program included below

10:00 Welcome

Session 1
Chair Kirby Nielsen

10:30-11:00 On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting
Cary Frydman (USC)

11:00-11:30 Minimal Experiments
Greg Leo (LMU)

11:30-12:00 Delayed Reward Information is Underweighted in Reinforcement Learning with Dispersed Feedback
Ian Krajbich (UCLA)

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Session 2
Chair Kathleen Ngangoue

1:30-2:00 Moral Salience: Reconciling Jekyll and Hyde Paradoxes
James Konow (LMU)

2:00-2:30 Moral Preferences and the Marketplace of Ideas
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn (Pomona)

2:30-3:00 Beliefs of Others: an Experimental Study
Marina Agranov (Caltech)

3:00-3:30 Break

Session 3
Chair Isabelle Brocas

3:30-4:00 Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail: A Study on Commitment Failure
Polina Detkova (Caltech)

4:00-4:30 Don't say "vegan" or "plant-based": Food without meat and dairy is more likely to be chosen when labeled as "healthy" and "sustainable"
Wandi Bruine de Bruin (USC)

4:30-5:00 Flexible Pay and Labor Supply: Evidence from Uber's Instant Pay
Kareem Haggag (UCLA)

For more information, please contact Mary Martin by phone at 626-395-4571 or by email at mmartin@caltech.edu.