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Employment and Affiliations

 

University of Utah

• Marriner S. Eccles Presidential Chair, 2020–present
• Professor of the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations, 2023–present
• Professor of Finance, 2020–2023

University of British Columbia

• Canadian Excellence Research Chair, 2016–present, on leave
• Professor of Economics, 2016–2023

Harvard University

• Visiting Professor of Strategy, Harvard Business School, 2019–2020

California Institute of Technology

• Visiting Associate, 2018–2020
• Professor of Economics and Political Science, 2012–2018
• Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, 2011–2012
• Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science, 2008–2011

National Bureau of Economic Research

• Research Associate, 2016–present
• Faculty Research Fellow, 2011–2016

Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo

• Research Fellow, 2015–present

Stanford University

• Instructor, 2005–2007

Education

 

• Ph.D. in Business Administration, Stanford University, 2003–2008
• S.B. in Physics, S.B. in Mathematics, minor in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995–1999
• Diploma, Lowell High School, San Francisco, California, 1991–1995

Research in Refereed Journals (go to my research page for more details)

 

1. Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed (with Daniel Agness, Travis Baseler, Sylvain Chassang, and Pascaline Dupas)
   Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming.
2. Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample
   (with Jonathan Chapman, Stephanie Wang, and Colin Camerer) Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming.
3. Econographics (with Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Mark Dean, and Colin Camerer)
   Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, 1(1): 115–161.
4. Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools (with Leeat Yariv)
   American Economic Review, 2021, 111(2): 687–719.
5. Journal-Based Replication of Experiments: An Application to "Being Chosen to Lead"
   (with Allan Drazen, Anna Dreber, and Erkut Ozbay) Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 202: 104482.
6. A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance
   (with Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, and Sergio Montero) American Economic Review, 2020, 110(4): 1206–1230.
7. Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study (with Ben Gillen and Leeat Yariv)
   Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127(4): 1826–1863.
8. The Right Type of Legislator: A Theory of Taxation and Representation (with Andrea Mattozzi)
   Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159(1): 54–65.
9. A New Model for Pricing Drugs of Uncertain Efficacy
   (with Sylvain Chassang, Luca Pani, Dana Goldman, Karen van Nuys, Wei-Han Cheng, and Jakub Hlavka) NEJM Catalyst, 2018.
10. Digging into the Pocketbook: Evidence on Economic Voting from Income Registry Data Matched to a Voter Survey
(with Andrew J. Healy and Mikael Persson) American Political Science Review, 2017, 111(4): 771–785.
11. Batched Bandit Problems (with Sylvain Chassang, Vianney Perchet, and Philippe Rigollet) Annals of Statistics, 2016, 44(2): 660–681.
12. Overconfidence in Political Behavior (with Pietro Ortoleva) American Economic Review, 2015, 105(2): 504–535.
13. Accounting for Behavior in Treatment Effects: New Applications for Blind Trials
    (with Sylvain Chassang, Ben Seymour, and Cayley Bowles) PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(6): e0127227.
14. Are Conservatives Overconfident? (with Pietro Ortoleva) European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 40(B): 333–44.
15. Mecro-Economic Voting: Local Information and Micro-Perceptions of the Macro-Economy
    (with Steve Ansolabehere and Marc Meredith) Economics & Politics, 2014, 26(3): 380–410.
16. Asking About Numbers: Why and How (with Steve Ansolabehere and Marc Meredith) Political Analysis, 2013, 21(1): 48–69.
17. Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
    (with Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padró-i-Miquel) American Economic Review, 2012, 102(4): 1279–1309.
18. The Lesser Evil: Executive Accountability with Partisan Supporters (with Gerard Padró-i-Miquel)
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2012, 24(1): 19–45.
19. Even if it is not Bribery: The Case for Campaign Finance Reform (with Brendan Daley)
    Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27(2): 324–349.
20. Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions? (with Justin Wolfers)
    Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118(4): 723–746.
21. The Promise of Prediction Markets (with 21 coauthors) Science, 2008, 320(5878): 877–878.
22. Party Influence in Congress and the Economy (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz)
    Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2007, 2(3): 277–286.
23. Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
    (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122(2): 807–829.
24. Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections (with Steve Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder)
    Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2006, 31(4): 469–490.
25. Unrepresentative Information: The Case of Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance (with Steve Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder)
    Public Opinion Quarterly, 2005, 69(2): 213–231.

Research in Collected Volumes (go to my research page for more details)

 

26. Decision Theoretic Approaches to Experiment Design and External Validity (with Abhijit Banerjee and Sylvain Chassang)
    Handbook of Field Experiments, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Editors. Elsevier, 2017.
27. Discussion of Boone et al. "The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, 2014.
28. Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz)
    Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Graham Elliott and Allan Timmermann, Editors. Elsevier, 2013.
29. How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz)
    Prediction Markets, Leighton Vaughn Williams, Editor. Routledge, 2011.
30. Sociotropic Voting and the Media (with Steve Ansolabehere and Marc Meredith) Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Survey, John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw, Editors. Princeton University Press, 2012.
31. Examining Explanations of a Market Anomaly: Preferences or Perceptions? (with Justin Wolfers)
    Handbooks in Finance: Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets, William Ziemba and Donald Hausch, Editors. Elsevier, 2008.
32. Prediction Markets: From Politics to Business (and Back) (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz)
    Handbooks in Finance: Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets, William Ziemba and Donald Hausch, Editors. Elsevier, 2008
33. Information (In)Efficiency in Prediction Markets (with Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz)
    Information Efficiency in Betting Markets, Leighton Vaughn Williams, Editor. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Working Papers (go to my research page for more details)

 

34. Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE) for Estimating Economic Preference Parameters
    (with Jonathan Chapman, Stephanie W. Wang, and Colin Camerer)
35. The Coherence of Citizen Preferences (with Greg Huber and Nicholas Ottone)
36. The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily (with Matthew O. Jackson, Stephen M. Nei, and Leeat Yariv)
37. Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion
    (with Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Mark Dean, and Colin Camerer)
38. Sustainable Reimbursements: Towards a Unified Framework for Pricing Drugs with Significant Uncertainties
    (with Sylvain Chassang, Valentina Mantua, Entela Xoxi, and Luca Pani)
39. Carrots and Sticks: Punishment and Party Power in Congress
40. The 2008 Presidential Primaries through the Lens of Prediction Markets (with Neil Malhotra)

Personal

 

    Born in San Francisco on June 12, 1977. Married to Keren Markuze since March 13, 2010.
     Three sons: Solomon Meyer, born April 17, 2013; Galileo Zoltan, born July 22, 2015; and Augustus Ruth, born March 6, 2017.