Leeat Yariv

Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow of CEPR, and a Research Associate of NBER. She is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL). Yariv is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at UCLA and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton in 2017. She has served on various journal editorial boards, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, and Quantitative Economics.

Leeat Yariv
InstitutionPrinceton University
FieldEconomics
Alma materHarvard University (PhD)
Tel Aviv University (MS)
Tel Aviv University (BS)

Yariv’s research focuses on political economy, market design, social and economic networks, and experimental economics.

Yariv was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.[1]

Education

Yariv received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.Sc. in Physics from Tel Aviv University in 1992. She received an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2001.[2]

gollark: I guess beliefs like "objects are not yellow" are among the harder-to-edit kinds since they're directly contradicted by the evidence in font of me.
gollark: Yes, and?
gollark: I can't really just go "hmm, today I will believe that all objects are yellow"; I can think about stuff like "what if all objects ever were yellow", but that isn't the same.
gollark: If we say that "you" are the conscious abstract-reasoning/planning brain part, then that does *not* really get to pick beliefs, exactly.
gollark: If we say that "you" is "your entire brain" then that kind of does.

References
  1. "16 faculty members, 18 alumni elected to nation's historic academies". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  2. "Leeat Yariv". Retrieved 2019-03-30.
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