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Seminar in Economic Development

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Gabriella Fleischman (Harvard University) "Economic and Psychological Returns to Social Relationships: Alleviating Constraints to Network Formation in Malawi" This seminar meets jointly with MIT Seminar Website Contact: Olivia Kim oskim@fas.harvard.edu...

Seminar in Behavioral & Experimental Economics

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Isabel Macdonald (Harvard University) "The Psychological Cost of Indebtedness: Evidence from Housing Mortgages in Pakistan"Website: https://economics.harvard.edu/seminars/behavioral Contact name: Maggie Brissenden Contact email: mbrissenden@fas.harvard...

Professor Sendhil Mullainathan on Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

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Harvard Professor Sendhil Mullainathan, one of the leading economists in the field of behavioral economics, has recently released a new book with Princeton cognitive psychologist Professor Eldar Shafir entitled Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So...

Pershing Square Foundation Award to Support Human Behavior Initiative at Harvard: Economics

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The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a $17 million award to Harvard University in support of the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative (FHB). The award will support the work of two Harvard Economics faculty members who work in the field of...

Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative

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The Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative (FHB) supports research that produces transformative insights about the psychological, social, economic, political, and biological mechanisms that influence human behavior. Our research translates social...

Graduate Program Administrator Brenda Piquet Selected for 2015 Dean's Distinction Award

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Congratulations go to Brenda Piquet for her outstanding service in directing the administration of the Economics Ph.D program, for which she has been given the FAS Dean's Distinction Award! The Dean's Distinction Award is given to eligible FAS and SEAS...

Fudenberg, Katz Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, Harvard Economics professors Drew Fudenberg and Lawrence Katz were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Fudenberg is the Frederic E. Abbe Professor of...

Congratulations to our Dissertation Prize Winners Awa Ambra Seck and John Conlon

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Awa Ambra Seck was awarded the the Padma Desai Research Award for Economics. Ambra is a development economist working at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and economic history. In her work, she combines quasi-experimental and...

Matthew Rabin

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Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.
Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research...

Seminars: Behavioral & Experimental Economics

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Behavioral & Experimental Economics Term: Fall 2026 Location: HBS, Baker Hall 102 Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Description: Invited speakers present new research in behavioral, experimental and applied microeconomics with a psychological...

Harvard Welcomes New Faculty to the Department of Economics

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The following individuals have recently joined the Harvard Faculty or accepted appointments in the Department of Economics. Senior Faculty Matthew Rabin joins the department as Pershing Square Professor of Behavior Economics and comes to Harvard from the...

RAP

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The Economics Research Assistant Program (RAP) Harvard Economics is pleased to announce the inaugural round of our Research Assistant Program (RAP), made possible by the generous support of the David Grossman and Kate Tomford Endowment for Economics...