JBEE–LACEA BRAIN–Tec Workshop

Program

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · Mexico City local time

08:30–09:00Welcome coffee

09:00–09:10

Introductory remarks

Luis Serra · Dean of Research, School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Session 1

Information, framing, and policy preferences

09:10–09:35

Does Impact Evidence Affect Policy Preferences? Evidence from Mexico's Landmark CCT Program

Raissa Fábregas

09:35–10:00

How Employment Framing Affects Trade Preferences: Evidence from Survey Experiments

Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc, Ernesto Stein, Razvan Vlaicu, Victor Zuluaga

10:00–10:25

A Tale of Two News: The Impact of Media Outlets on Consumption Choices

Juan Carlos Angulo, Aldo Gutiérrez-Mendieta

10:25–10:55Coffee break

Session 2

Social preferences, gender, and collective behavior

10:55–11:20

Distributive Decisions under Imperfect Effort Signals: A Spectator Design Experiment

Oscar Torrealba-Rodríguez, Pablo Soto-Mota

11:20–11:45

Gender Differences in Collaborative Networks

Valentina Ciriotto, Friederike Mengel

11:45–12:10

Gender Differences in Team Formation

Antonio Cabrales, Lorenzo Ductor, Ericka Rascon Ramirez, and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara

12:10–12:35

Disentangling Mechanisms behind the Daughter Effect in Mexico: A Survey Experiment

Arturo Romero Yáñez, Alberto Simpser, Pablo Ignacio Soto Mota

12:35–14:05Lunch

Session 3

Prices, uncertainty, and markets

14:05–14:30

Climate Ambiguity and Farmers' Response to Prices: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Lina Restrepo-Plaza, Enrique Fatas, Margarita Gáfaro, Camilo Bohórquez-Peñuela, Alejandro Sánchez-Naranjo

14:30–14:55

Price Distortions and Hoarding: An Experiment

Edgar Castro, César Martinelli, Nicholas Brown

View working paper ↗

14:55–15:20

Fat Tails in the Lab

Jorge D. Ramos-Mercado, Santiago Alonso-Díaz, Hernán Bejarano

15:20–15:50Coffee break

Session 4

Education, social cognition, and beliefs

15:50–16:15

Reading Others as Individuals: A Field Experiment on Fiction and Prosociality

Juan Ferro, José-Alberto Guerra

16:15–16:40

Belief Heterogeneity and Information Acquisition When Others Make the Decision

Dario Trujano-Ochoa

16:40–17:05

Developmental Meritocracy

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo

17:05–17:15Closing remarks

Venue and attendance

Teatro de Decisiones (Decision Theater), School of Government and Public Transformation, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mixcoac site. Address: Av. Revolución 756, Mixcoac, Benito Juárez, 03700 Mexico City, Mexico.

Arrival reference: Revolución 756 building, at the corner with Holbein street. Pedestrian access is on Av. Revolución. Nearby Metro station: San Antonio (Line 7). On arrival, ask at reception for the Teatro de Decisiones. Attendance arrangements will be confirmed separately.

Organization

The workshop is jointly convened by the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, LACEA’s Behavioral Insights Network, and BEER Lab at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Academic organizers

Pablo BrañasUniversidad Loyola Andalucía · Editor-in-Chief, JBEE

Alexander ElbittarCIDE

Hernán BejaranoCIDE

Stanislao MaldonadoTecnológico de Monterrey

César MantillaPontificia Universidad Javeriana

Lina MorosUniversidad de los Andes

JBEE information

The meeting will also present details of a forthcoming special issue on economic experiments in Latin America, planned by the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics for late 2026.

LACEA BRAIN information ↗

Read the original announcement ↗

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