Behavioral Economics

Recent Awards

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Annual Support for Behavioral Economics Roundtable"
November 2009, $175,000

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Behavioral Economics and Consumer Finance Working Group"
November 2009, $250,000

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Support for Behavioral Economics Roundtable"
November 2008, $175,000

David Lynch, Harvard University

"Analogical Reasoning and Trade Attitudes"
January 2008, $5,000

Zachary Grossman, Harvard University

"The Role of Information in Motivating Giving"
January 2008, $2,500

Eldar Shafir, Princeton University

"The Behavioral Foundations of Policy"
November 2007, $73,000

Terrence Kennedy, National University of Mongolia

"Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Mongolia"
September 2007, $3,300

Erez Yoeli, University of Chicago

"Social Pressure and the Demand for Green Products"
September 2007, $5,000

Edward Vul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Measuring the Crowd Within: Probabilistic Cognition in Economic Decision Making"
September 2007, $4,850

Salar Jahedi, University of California, Berkeley

"A Taste for Bargains"
September 2007, $2,380

James Berry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Parental Commitment and Child Motivation in Educational Decisions"
July 2007, $4,987

Dipan Ghosh, University of Maryland

"Price Manipulation by the Auctioneer: An Experimental Study"
July 2007, $2,400

Rema Hanna, New York University

"Farmer Experimentation and Learning"
May 2007, $5,000

Gregory Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice"
May 2007, $5,000

Christopher Oliviola, Princeton University
Stephanie Wang, Princeton University

"Patience Auctions: Bidding Time or Money"
May 2007, $2,600

Leonie Karkoviata, University of Houston

"Migrant Savings and Banking Behavior"
March 2007, $4,500

James MacKillop, Brown University

"The Neuroeconomics of Tobacco Dependence"
March 2007, $5,000

John Lynham, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Incentive Structures and Procrastination"
January 2007, $2,500

Felipe Campante, Harvard University
Davin Chor, Harvard University
Brent Neiman, Harvard University
Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, Harvard University
Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University

"Behavioral Economics and Economist’s Behavior"
January 2007, $5,000

Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Continuing support of Behavioral Economics Roundtable activities"
November 2006, $150,000

Erte Xiao, University of Pennsylvania

"Punish in Private and Praise in Public?"
November 2006, $3,697

Navin Kartik, University of California, San Diego

"When Would I Lie to You?"
November 2006, $5,000

Antonia Atanassova, Harvard University

"The Right Incentives: Gender and Motivational Strategies in a Public Goods Setting"
November 2006, $5,000

Marcus Alexander, Harvard University
Fotini Christia, Harvard University

"Ethnic Diversity and Contribution to Public Goods"
July 2006, $4,210

David Atkin, Princeton University

"Behavioral Responses to Differential Timing of Pension Distribution: Evidence from South Africa"
July 2006, $3,250

Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin

"The Value of Networks"
July 2006, $2,569

Tomomi Tanaka, California Institute of Technology

"Nature of Racial Discrimination: Inter-Ethnic Field Experiments"
July 2006, $5,000

Ming Hsu, California Institute of Technology

"Your Own Worst Enemy: Overconfidence and Escalation in a Fantasy Baseball Field Experiment"
July 2006, $2,500

David Laibson, Harvard University
Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"Behavioral Economics Summer Institute VII"
June 2006, $121,121

Arthur-Damon Jones, University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley

"Advance Earned Income Tax Credit"
April 2006, $5,000

Christopher Dawes, University of California, Davis

"The Role of Genetics in Preference Formation"
April 2006, $2,500

Pamela Jakiela, University of California, Berkeley

"Why Do Property Rights Matter?"
April 2006, $2,500

Hyejeung Cho, University of Texas, San Antonio

"The Effect of Self-Identity Activation on Behaviors in the Dictator and Ultimatum Games"
April 2006, $4,756

James Choi, Yale University

"Identity and Preferences"
March 2006, $5,000

Brian Elbel, Yale University

"Choice Sets and Consumer Selection of Health Plans"
March 2006, $4,639

Ofer Azar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Relative Thinking: Does It Exist With Real Choices?"
January 2006, $2,460

Elizabeth Potamites, New York University
Bei Zhang, New York University

"Emotions and Investment Behavior on Trading Floors in China"
January 2006, $4,960

Scott Rick, Carnegie Mellon University

"Effects of Spending Cues on Spendthrifts and Tightwads"
December 2005, $4,410

David Borden, National Bureau of Economic Research

"Evaluation of Weather Patterns by Cruise Ship Customers and Future Consumption Decisions"
December 2005, $3,600

Young Joon Park, University of California, San Diego

"Self-Image in Objective Qualities"
December 2005, $3,000

Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin

"Is Identification with School the Key Component in the 'Black Box' of Education Outcomes?"
December 2005, $5,000

Christopher Blattman, University of California, Berkeley

"Stolen Children, Shattered Lives? A Study of the Impact of Abduction and Soldiering on the Children of Sudan and Uganda"
December 2005, $5,000

Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Working Group on Prescriptive Economics"
November 2005, $221,375
Project Description

George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Roy F. Baumeister, Florida State University

"Reunion of Summer Institute on Emotion and Decision Making"
April 2005, $20,000
Project Description

Jean Tirole, University of Toulouse

"Toulouse Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology"
February 2005, $50,000
Project Description

Robert Slonim, Case Western Reserve University
Roberto Weber, Carnegie Mellon University

"New and Alternative Directions for Learning"
April 2004, $11,820
Project Description

George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Roy F. Baumeister, Florida State University

"Summer Institute on Emotion and Decision"
January 2004, $10,000
Project Description

Andrew Healy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

" Western Influence and Information Variety in a Developing Country: An Experiment in Thailand"
December 2003, $4,130
Project Description

Nathan Jensen, Washington University

"Stock Markets and Economic Voting"
November 2003, $4,000
Project Description

Ofer Azar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

" Do People Think About Dollars or Percentages?"
October 2003, $2,540
Project Description

Michael Price, University of Maryland at College Park

"Funding Public Goods by Means of Tontines: An Experimental Examination"
October 2003, $2,600
Project Description

Marco Casari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

"Preferences for Pre-Commitment in a Time Decision Experiment"
October 2003, $2,500
Project Description

Daniel Benjamin, Harvard University
Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University

"Bounded Cognition and Economic Decision Making"
October 2003, $5,000
Project Description

Erik Hoelzl, Carnegie Mellon University

"Social Comparison and Utility"
September 2003, $3,200
Project Description

Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan

"Behavioral Public Finance: Toward a New Agenda"
September 2003, $50,000
Project Description

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eldar Shafir, Princeton University

"Decision Making Under Poverty: A Behavioral Research Program"
May 2003, $50,000
Project Description

Fang Lai, University of California, Berkeley

"The Impact of Peer Group Influence and School Quality on Educational"
April 2003, $4,800
Project Description

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

"Two Conferences on the New Economic Sociology (2)"
March 2003, $12,000
Project Description

Deborah Small, Carnegie Mellon University

"Identifiability"
January 2003, $3,500
Project Description

Jeremy Stein, Harvard University
Ulrike Malmendier, Stanford University
Geoffrey Tate, Harvard University

"The Impact of Overconfidence on the Decision-Making of CEOs in Large Companies"
August 2002, $5,000
Project Description

Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon University

"Giving to Welfare Recipients: The Effects of Direct Information and Attitudes to Redistribution and the Poor in a Dictator Game"
June 2002, $2,400
Project Description

Laura Schechter, University of California, Berkeley

" Trustworthiness, Trust, and Productive Efficiency"
June 2002, $2,431
Project Description

Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington

"Commitment Mechanisms and Savings Behavior"
June 2002, $5,000
Project Description

Lorenz Goette, University of California, Berkeley

"Prospect Theory and Labor Supply"
May 2002, $3,450
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley
David Laibson, Harvard University
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University

"Behavioral Economics Summer Insititute V"
March 2002, $159,878
Project Description

William Nelson, SUNY Buffalo

"The Endowment Effect: Framing and Public Good Provision"
March 2002, $2,500
Project Description

Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Brit Grosskopf, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Harvard University

"What Does it Take to Overcome the Winner's Curse? The Effect of Variation in the Environment and Feedback"
September 2001, $2,800
Project Description

Eric Bettinger, Case Western Reserve University

" The Effect of Educational Vouchers on Academic and Non-Academic Outcomes"
August 2001, $5,000
Project Description

Nikita Piankov, Harvard University

"Effects of Age and Cultural Background on How People Perceive Fairness and Trust in Russia"
August 2001, $4,800
Project Description

James Druckman, University of Minnesota

"The Relevance of Framing Effects to Political Science"
July 2001, $4,759
Project Description

Neil Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

"The Handbook of Economic Sociology: Second Edition"
June 2001, $123,500
Project Description

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

"Two Conferences on the New Economic Sociology"
January 2001, $35,000
Project Description

Robert J. Oxby, University of Calgary

"Economic Growth in the Face of Changing Attitudes"
December 2000, $4,720
Project Description

Julian C. Jamison, Northwestern University

"Price Competition and the Value of Information: Theory and Experiments"
December 2000, $4,972
Project Description

George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University

" The Role of Visceral Motivation in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior"
June 2000, $160,525
Project Description

Dean Karlan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

" Social Capital and Village Banking"
April 2000, $5,000
Project Description

Christopher Anderson, California Institute of Technology

" Intertemporal Tradeoffs in Search Problems"
February 2000, $2,000
Project Description

Angela Hung, California Institute of Technology

"Testing the Rational Addiction Model"
February 2000, $3,000
Project Description

Jeffrey Davis, California State University

"Social Cognition and the New Structuralism"
January 2000, $1,084
Project Description

Daniel Houser, University of Arizona

" Contributions in Public Goods Games:"
January 2000, $3,438
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

" Behavioral Economics Summer Institute IV"
January 2000, $130,916
Project Description

Brit Grosskopf, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Harvard University

" Happiness and Relative Payoffs: An Experimental Study"
January 2000, $447
Project Description

Kirk Warren Brown, University of Rochester

" Why Do We Buy? Examining the Motivational and Hedonic Underpinnings of Consumption"
October 1999, $4,450
Project Description

Alvin Roth, Harvard University
Liran Einav, Harvard University

" Do Consumers Really Search Too Little?"
October 1999, $3,100
Project Description

Kris Kirby, Williams College
Eric Schulz, Williams College

"Myopic Time-Discounting"
September 1999, $4,236
Project Description

Brit Grosskopf, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Harvard University
Gary Charness, University of California, Berkeley

"Does Misery Love Company?"
March 1999, $1,008
Project Description

Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University
Alan Durell, Harvard University

"Attribution in Performance Evaluation"
March 1999, $3,940
Project Description

Elizabeth Brooke Harrington, Harvard University

"Markets in Microcosm: Investment Decisions"
February 1999, $2,850
Project Description

Robert Kurzban, University of Arizona

"Commitment in a Real-Time Public Goods Environment"
December 1998, $3,688
Project Description

Robert Shiller, National Bureau of Economic Research
Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago

"Behavioral Economics Conference Series"
May 1998, $127,926
Project Description

Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution

"Behavioral Approaches to Policy Analysis: Applications to Retirement and Retirement Policy (March 1998)"
March 1998, $7,000
Project Description

Colin Camerer, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"Behavioral Economics Summer Institute III"
February 1998, $112,857
Project Description

Jeffrey Carpenter, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics

" Is Fairness Used Instrumentally? Evidence from Ultimatum Bargaining"
January 1998, $1,750
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"Psychology and Economics: A Textbook for Behavioral Economics"
November 1997, $121,210
Project Description

Bradley Ruffle, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Buyer Behavior in Posted-Offer Markets"
November 1997, $3,468
Project Description

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Executive Compensation: Skimming Versus Contracting"
November 1997, $1,500
Project Description

Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution

"Behavioral Approaches to Policy Analysis: Applications to Retirement and Retirement Policy (November 1997)"
November 1997, $82,400
Project Description

Peyton Young, The Johns Hopkins University
Tim Salmon, The Johns Hopkins University

"An Experimental Analysis of Adaptive Learning"
September 1997, $1,275
Project Description

John Morgan, Princeton University

"Financing Public Goods Through Lotteries"
July 1997, $2,500
Project Description

Roberto Weber, Carnegie Mellon University

"Game Theory"
April 1997, $2,500
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"1997 Summer Institute Reunion"
March 1997, $24,882
Project Description

Miguel Costa Gomes, University of California, San Diego
Vincent Crawford, University of California, San Diego

"Experimental Studies of Behavior and Cognition in Normal-Form Games"
February 1997, $3,100
Project Description

Nancy Buchan, The Wharton School of Business

"The Cultural Boundaries of Trust and Reciprocity in Economic Bargaining"
February 1997, $5,000
Project Description

George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University

"Neurobehavioral Economics"
January 1997, $35,000
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"Psychology and Economics"
July 1996, $5,000
Project Description

Alan Blinder, Princeton University

" Testing the Theory of Price Stickiness: An Interview Study"
June 1996, $50,982
Project Description

Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution

"Behavioral Approaches to Policy Analysis: Applications to Retirement and Retirement Policy (June 1996)"
June 1996, $48,400
Project Description

Daniel Kahneman,
Edward Diener,
Norbert Schwarz,

"Elements of Quality of Life: Methods and Findings in the Study of Experienced Utility (February 1996)"
February 1996, $47,100
Project Description

Jeffrey Polzer, University of Texas, Austin

"Communication Effects in Nested Social Dilemmas"
January 1996, $3,900
Project Description

Gary Charness, University of California, Berkeley

"Dispute Resolution"
November 1995, $1,800
Project Description

Daniel Kahneman,
Edward Diener,
Norbert Schwarz,

"Elements of Quality of Life: Methods and Findings in the Study of Experienced Utility (November 1995)"
November 1995, $85,000
Project Description

Daniel Kahneman,

"1996 Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics"
November 1995, $127,025
Project Description

Gene Heyman, Harvard University

" Addiction: Choice or Disease?"
November 1995, $24,972
Project Description

Bradley Ruffle, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"More is Better, But Fair is Fair: Dictator and Ultimatum Games with Endogenously Determined Pie Sizes"
October 1995, $1,900
Project Description

Jeremy Clark, Cornell University

"The Value of Fairness in the Provision of Public Goods"
October 1995, $1,979
Project Description

David Dickinson, University of Arizona

"Public Goods Provision under Uncertainty"
September 1995, $750
Project Description

David Cooper, University of Pittsburg

"Effects of Context and Cross-Game Learning on Play in Signalling Games"
July 1995, $4,894
Project Description

Bart Wilson, University of Arizona

"Are Sticky Prices Really Possible in a Competitive Market?"
July 1995, $1,225
Project Description

Colin Camerer, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

"Summer Institute Reunion (May 1995)"
May 1995, $12,200
Project Description

Jason Shachat, University of Arizona

"Mixed Strategy Play in Strictly Competitive Games"
April 1995, $1,689
Project Description

Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley

"Behavioral Economics Literature Review"
February 1995, $5,000
Project Description

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