Matt Lowe

@hmmlowe

🇬🇧 Assistant Professor of Economics @UBC. Interested in devo, PE, behavioural, and sweet foods. R2: ''high on cuteness and low on depth''

Vancouver, British Columbia mattjlowe.github.io Joined January 2014

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Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Feb 11, 2025

The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Oct 9

Amazing opportunity for both faculty and students studying India:

Arvind Subramanian @arvindsubraman Oct 9

Devesh Kapur & I are thrilled to announce a 5-day Winter Workshop (Dec. 3-6) based on our book A Sixth of Humanity

An exciting teaching, learning & research opportunity for students & faculty from all over India, organised by @JindalGlobalUNI & @PIIE

Details below

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Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Aug 17

Sharing a pre-doc opportunity at Microsoft Research, Bengaluru, with Gareth Nellis + co. On AI, public health + education. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2….

Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Aug 9

First grad school field experiment, finally published🙂academic.oup.com/jeea/article-a… (with @MaddieMcKelway). We find that spousal discussion lowers wives' take-up of a job in India.

Ungated: mattjlowe.github.io/files/Lowe%20a…

academic.oup.com Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India Abstract. Joint household decision-making becomes more common as economies develop. Can external intervention advance this transition? We study this questi

Matt Lowe @hmmlowe Apr 23

Some great progress on testing mechanisms:

Jonathan Roth @jondr44 Apr 23

I’m really excited about this paper! Some of my work has pointed out problems in empirical work, but this one is all about new 🔧s.

If you (or your referees) want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome, you may be interested. A 🧵.
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