Experimental Economist

Experimental Economist

Postdoctoral Researcher

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personal

My Coursera adventures

I discovered the world of MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) when I enrolled on my first one in November of 2012. It was a course on Coursera platform called Introduction to Astronomy offered by Duke University and taught by Ronen Plesser. I got immediatelly hooked and was amazed about the variety of topics one could learn about. The journey through knowledge was both stimulating as well as addictive and lasted until the summer of 2015. I completed a range of courses during that time.

Being a video game completionist → a better academic?

While I cannot claim which direction the causality goes, completing a video game 100% and publishing an academic paper share striking parallels. Both require resilience (gamers: challenging levels, researchers: overcoming rejections), patience (gamers: unlocking achievements, researchers: rewriting and revising), attention to detail (gamers: complex mechanics, researchers: precise writing), and the ability to learn from setbacks (gamers: adapting strategies after failure, researchers: incorporate feedback).

The road to PhD

Life started in Kozani, Greece in 1988 where I stayed until I finished high school. As a teenager I had one big passion, mathematics. During high school, I was always eager to go beyond the topics covered in maths textbook. I participated in mathematical competitions and succeeded at province level (2004, 2005) as well as national level (2003).

Sports

I enjoy running, chess, and football. I mostly run 5 km events, although I have occasionally attempted longer distances and would like to complete a half marathon one day. You can view my parkrun profile. A list of formal running events in which I have participated is provided below.

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On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

Published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2023

Recommended citation: Schaerer M., du Plessis C., ..., Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 179 (104280), 1–10.
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