Human Behavior
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Conference paper
Inequality: A Neuroscience Perspective
Apr 2015
It is impossible to ignore material inequality. Wealth, and the goods that come with it, are accumulating at the top of society while others seem to be struggling in the middle and bottom.
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Motivations, Emotions, Decisions
Apr 8, 2015 | 11:15—12:45
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Inequality: Claims about Genes
Apr 8, 2015 | 10:30—11:00
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Reflexivity Between Micro and Macroeconomics
Feb 10, 2015
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Social Econometrics
This research project develops tools that allow social scientists to understand how and when social factors, such as peer influences, role models, or norms, affect individual choices.
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Years granted:
2015
Geno-Econometrics
This research project explores how genomic data can inform the understanding of social science questions. The genomic revolution means that social scientists are able to correlate a range of outcomes and behaviors with genes. This research studies what these correlations mean.
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A sparsity based model of bounded rationality
Dec 17, 2014
A more realistic version of how people “maximize utility”
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Self-Control and Public Pensions
Jul 13, 2014
Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014 | 03:15—05:00
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Years granted:
2013, 2014
Contagion of Sentiment, Investor Trading Activities, and Financial Crises
This research project studies the pricing and liquidity implications of sentiment and disagreement as origins of radical uncertainty in financial markets.
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What is Economic Success?
Oct 11, 2013
“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”
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Methodology, Systemic Risk, and the Economics Profession
Jul 22, 2013
Changing the incentives for how economists determine both the content of the subject and their approach to scientific research could increase the range of thinking in the profession
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Conference paper
GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment
May 2013
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genome-wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266), and all three replicate.
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Conference paper
Irreducible Uncertainty and its Implications: A Narrative Action Theory for Economics.
Apr 2013
At the heart of economics is a theory of action. It reflects views about how human beings make economic decisions and leads to an analysis of aggregate consequences.