Pay-What-You-Want and Non-Selfish Behavior in Markets
Ayelet Gneezy, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
February 1, 2013, 12:45-2:15pm
Garrett Hall Commons

In her research, Gneezy complements laboratory experiments with field experiments for which she often collaborates with various firms. Gneezy is interested in how consumers make sense of advertising and marketing practices, and particularly in the ironic effects that are driven by consumers’ distrust in firms. Gneezy applies her research to areas such as pricing, sustainability and judgment and decision making.

The Imprisoner's Dilemma: A Cost Benefit Approach to Incarceration
David Abrams, Assistant Professor of Law, Business Economics, and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
February 15, 2013, 10:00-11:30am
Garrett Hall Commons

David Abrams is one of the leading young economists working in empirical law and economics. His work covers a range of topics, tied together by goal of understanding and measuring how individuals respond to incentives in various legal contexts. Criminal justice is one of his major areas of expertise, where Abrams has investigated a variety of questions, including whether longer sentences deter crime, how defendant race impact judicial decisions, to what extent attorney skill affects case outcomes, and how much individuals value freedom.

Americans Fill Out President Obama’s Census Form: What is His Race?
Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
March 4, 2013, 9:30-11:00am
Garrett Hall Commons

Citrin's writings include The Politics of Disaffection among American and British Youth (1969), written with David Elkins, Tax Revolt (1982, revised 1985), written with David O. Sears, California and the American Tax Revolt (1984), and How Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Shape the California Electorate (2002), written with Ben Highton.  Professor Citrin's next book, American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism, will be published by Cambridge University Press. With Nathaniel Persily and Patrick Egan, he is editor and co-author of Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversies, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. Professor Citrin also has published numerous articles and book chapters on trust in government, the initiative process in California, immigration and language politics, and the future of national identity in the United States and Europe. Citrin was born in Shanghai, China, and grew up in China and Japan. A graduate of McGill University (1961), he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970.

Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Rescheduling for fall 2013
Garrett Hall Commons

Johnson's research considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. He has focused on such topics as low-wage labor markets, spatial mismatch, the societal consequences of incarceration, the impacts of childhood school and neighborhood quality on adult health and socioeconomic success, and the effects of growing up poor and poor infant health on childhood cognition, educational attainment, and health over the life course.

Jamie Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
April 26, 2013, 10:30-12:00pm
Garrett Hall Commons

Druckman's research focuses on political preference formation and communication. His recent work examines how citizens make political, economic, and social decisions in various contexts (e.g., settings with multiple competing messages, online information, deliberation). He also researches the relationship between citizens' preferences and public policy, and how political elites make decisions under varying institutional conditions.  Druckman has published more than 75 articles and book chapters.  He co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. He has served as editor of the journals Political Psychology and Public Opinion Quarterly as well as the University of Chicago Press's series in American Politics. He currently is the co-Principal Investigator of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and also, in 2012, received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.  Druckman obtained his B.A. from Northwestern, majoring in mathematical methods in the social sciences and political science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Previous workshops

Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Pascaline Dupas, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University
December 6, 2012, 3:30-5:00pm
Garrett Hall Commons

Exploring Variation in State Fiscal Shock during the Great Recession
Andrea Campbell, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 1, 2012, 3:30-5:00
Garrett Hall, Commons

Professor Campbell's interests include American politics, political behavior, public opinion, and political inequality, particularly their intersection with social welfare policy, health policy, and tax policy. She is the author of How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, 2003) and, with Kimberly J. Morgan, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision (Oxford, 2011)

Behavioral Responses to Teacher Transfer Incentives: Results from a Randomized Experiment
Steven Glazerman, Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research
September 24, 2012, 12:30-2:00
Garrett Hall, Great Hall

Steven Glazerman is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research with expertise in methods for evaluating the impact of social programs and in teacher labor markets, including issues of teacher recruitment, professional development, alternative certification, performance measurement, and compensation. Glazerman’s early research has included large-scale national impact evaluations of high-profile programs such as Teach For America and Job Corps. More recently, he was the principal investigator for federally funded national studies of preschool curriculum, teacher induction, and teacher pay. He currently leads the impact evaluation of the Talent Transfer Initiative, an effort to identify high value-added teachers and attract them with monetary incentives to low-performing schools. He also leads a five-year randomized study of the impacts of the Teacher Advancement Program in the Chicago Public Schools and is a principal investigator for a national evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Incentivizing Educational Investment: The Impact of Performance-Based Scholarships on Student Use of Time
Cecilia Rouse, Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education, Princeton University
September 10, 2012, 12:30-2:00
Garrett Hall, Great Hall

Cecilia Rouse is the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her primary research interests are in labor economics with a focus on the economics of education. Rouse has served as an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and is currently a senior editor of The Future of Children. She is the founding director of the Princeton University Education Research Section, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1998-99 she served in the White House at the National Economic Council and from 2009-2011 served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

May 11, 1:30 - 3:30pm

Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University

The criminal, the ape, and the static being: Three views of blacks in the modern era

Jennifer Eberhardt is an associate professor of psychology at Stanford University. Her primary research interests include stereotyping, prejudice, and stigma. Most recent research examines the nature of racial categories

Co-sponsored by the Working Group on Racial Inequality

April 13, 12 - 1:30 pm

Benjamin Converse, University of Virginia Batten School

The Trouble with "Buy In":  Some Motivational Challenges of Managing Shared Goals

Bejnamin Converse is an assistant professor of public policy and psychology at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.

March 23, 12 - 1:30pm

David Brady, Stanford University

The Gradual Realignment of Voters and Parties: Implications for Politics and Public Policy

David Brady is deputy director and Davis Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership values in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the University.

February 24, 12 - 1:30

Mark Kleiman, UCLA

Beccaria, Kahnemann, Schelling, and HOPE: How Game Theory and Behavioral Economics Point a Way out of the Mass-Incarceration Trap

Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis, on imperfectly rational decision-making at the individual and social level, and on drug abuse and crime control policy.

February 13, 11 - 12:30

David Figlio, Northwestern University

"School Accountability, Standards and Family Mobility"

David Figlio is the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and a Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Economics at Northwestern University and is also a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.

Co-sponsored with the Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness

November 11, 2011

Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

We are Family: Fathers' Time with Children and the Risk of Divorce

Ariel Kalil is a professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the Univesity of Chicago and director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.

October 28, 2011

Shige Oishi, University of Virginia Psychology Department

The Psychological Wealth of Nations

Shigi Oishi is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia studying issues related to culture, social ecology, and well being broadly defined.

September 16, 2011

Adam Sheingate, The John's Hopkins University Department of Political Science

A New Politics of Food?

Adam Sheingate is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University department of political science.

September 9, 2011

Tom Gilovich, Cornell University Department of Psychology

Interactions between Rational and Intuitive Judgment

Tom Gilovich is a professor of psychology at Cornell University and studies everyday judgment and decision making, critical thinking and belief, egocentrism, optimism, pessimism, satisfaction, regret, and behavioral economics.