Public Choice Seminar

Come join the Center for Study of Public Choice for lunch, a presentation, and a discussion at Public Choice Seminar Series featuring:

Erik Snowberg, Caltech, on Econographics: Towards a Refined Representation of Behavioral Economics

Light Lunch:  11:45

Seminar:  12:00 noon - 1:15 PM

Wednesday, April 25th in Carow Hall

Behavioral psychology and economics includes a long list of behaviors that are consistent in specific patterns of economic decision making. In Econographics: Towards a Refined Representation of Behavioral Economics, Snowberg et al. aim to create an empirical basis for a comprehensive theory of decision making. They define econographics as behaviors that have an effect on economic decision making and conclude that theories of social preference can use a bit more parsimony, while theories of risk and uncertainty could use a bit less.

Erik Snowberg is a professor of economics and political science at the California Institute of Technology, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Canada excellence research chair in data-intensive methods in economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His academic research has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, American political Science Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics (among others).

The seminar series schedule and paper can be found here.