Nickolas Gagnon
 

EcoDisc (MSCA grant)

 
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I received an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action individual grant for the EcoDisc project (2022—2024). The project aimed to develop incentivized online experiments to evaluate preferences regarding discrimination, notably novel moral-based preferences, and to roll them out at a country level. Here I posted updates on the project.

  • Nov. 2022: start of EcoDisc.

  • April—June 2023: pilot experiment conducted and pilot presentation at NHH, AU, and CNEE workshop (Technical University of Denmark).

  • Aug. 2023: data collected for auxiliary experiment on estimating potential social desirability and experimenter demand effects.

  • Oct.—Dec 2023: data collected for the main experiment (for gender discrimination) in the UK and presentations at CNEE workshop (Copenhagen Business School), Maastricht, NHH, and SOFI (Stockholm University).

  • April—June 2024: presentation at CEBI (University of Copenhagen) and University of Stavanger.

  • Sept.—Nov. 2024: presentation at the Nordic Conference for Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Copenhagen), PIREAU workshop (Aarhus), and CNEE workshop (Lund University).

  • Nov. 2024: data collected for the extension experiment (for ethnic, gender, and LGBTQ+ status discrimination) in the UK, preparation of the working paper, and end of EcoDisc.

  • Feb.-March 2025: presentations at the University of Padova and the University of Innsbruck.

  • July 2025: the working paper entitled “Discrimination Preferences” is publicly available on SSRN.