David Laibson Joins RSF Board of Trustees
The Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of economist David Laibson to the Board of Trustees. Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He leads Harvard Universityʼs Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative and is the co-organizer of RSF’s Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on behavioral economics, with emphasis on household finance, macroeconomics, aging, and intertemporal choice.
In addition to serving as a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, Laibson also serves on the boards of Harvardʼs Pension Investment Committee, the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium, and the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he co-directs the National Institute of Aging Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health and Savings, and is a Research Associate in the Aging, Asset Pricing, and Economic Fluctuations Working Groups.
Laibson holds degrees from Harvard University (AB in Economics), the London School of Economic (MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Economics). He received his PhD in 1994 and has taught at Harvard since then.
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