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CV

EDUCATION

1990-1994: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Economics

1988-1990: London School of Economics, M.Sc. Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, with Distinction

1984-1988: Harvard University, A.B. Economics, Summa cum Laude


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008-present: Harvard University, Harvard College Professor

2007-present: Harvard University, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics

2002-2007: Harvard University, Professor of Economics

1998-2002: Harvard University, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy

1997-1998: National Bureau of Economic Research Fellowship

1994-1998: Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Economics


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

2007-present: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Editorial Board

2006-present: National Science Foundation, DRMS Panel

2006-present: National Institutes of Health, NIA, BSR Data Priorities Committee

2006-present: Annual Reviews – Economics, Editorial Board

2006-present: Pension Research Council, Advisory Board

2003-2007: Journal of the European Economics Association, Editorial Board

2002-present: Russell Sage Foundation Summer School in Behavioral Economics, Co-organizer

2001-present: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Advisory Editor

2001-present: Brookings Institution, Advisory Committeee for the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

2000-present: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Editorial Board

2000-present: National Institutes of Health, NIA, Health and Retirement Survey Monitoring Committee

1998-present: Russell Sage Behavioral Economics Roundtable

1995-present: National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate (Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, Aging), Institutional Review Board

1995-2003: MacArthur Foundation Preferences Network

RESEARCH AWARDS AND HONORS

2008: William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address, International Atlantic Economic Conference
2008: Social Security Administration Grant (with John Beshears, James Choi, and Brigitte Madrian)
2008: Keynote Speaker, Financial Literacy and Education Commission, U.S. Treasury Department
2008: Plenary Address: German Economic Association Annual Meeting
2008: James P. Houck Lecture, University of Minnesota
2007: Lionel Robbins ­Lectures, London School of Economics
2007: FINRA Grant (with John Beshears, James Choi, and Brigitte Madrian)
2007: National Institute of Aging grant (with John Beshears, James Choi, and Brigitte Madrian)
2006: Ely Lectures, Johns Hopkins University
2005: National Science Foundation Grant (with Xavier Gabaix and Eugene Stanley )
2005: National Institutes of Aging Grant (with Dan Benjamin, Chris Chabris, Ed Glaeser)
2005: Keynote Speaker, Austrian Economics Association Annual Meeting
2005: Theodore Schultz Lecture, University of Chicago
2004: Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Lecture, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society
2004: Social Security Administration Grant
2003: National Institutes of Aging Center Grant (with David Wise)
2003: National Institutes of Aging Grant (with Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick)
2002: Keynote Speaker, European Society for Population Economics
2001: Nobel Symposium, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Speaker
2001: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
2000: National Science Foundation Grant Recipient (with Xavier Gabaix)
2000: 8th World Congress of Econometric Society, Plenary Session Speaker
1999: National Institutes of Aging Grant
1999: John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship
1998: TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, Certificate of Excellence
1997: National Bureau of Economic Research Aging Fellowship
1997: MacArthur Foundation Research Grant Recipient
1995: National Science Foundation Career Grant Recipient
1994: Review of Economics Studies Tour
1993: Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1990: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1988: Marshall Scholarship

TEACHING AWARDS

2008: Harvard College Professor
1999: Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

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