Roland Benabou
Program
Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being
Appointment
Fellow ( Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being); Associate (Institutions, Organizations and Growth)
Institution
Princeton University
Country
USA 
Roland Benabou is Theodore A. Wells' 29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he has a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Fellow of the CEPR and of IZA, a senior fellow of BREAD, a Research Associate of the NBER and of the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is also an associate editor of several journals including the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Economic Growth. In 2002-2003 he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study and, in 2004, a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Benabou’s research covers a broad set of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, with a general emphasis on heterogeneity, market imperfections and social interactions. Among the topics he has contributed to are: a) Inflation, price setting, speculation, and search theory; b) Social stratification, education finance and the structure of cities; c) Macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, and the links between inequality and growth; d) Social mobility and the political economy of redistribution; e) Economics and psychology, including overconfidence, willpower, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, identity and ideology.
Dr. Benabou’s research covers a broad set of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, with a general emphasis on heterogeneity, market imperfections and social interactions. Among the topics he has contributed to are: a) Inflation, price setting, speculation, and search theory; b) Social stratification, education finance and the structure of cities; c) Macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, and the links between inequality and growth; d) Social mobility and the political economy of redistribution; e) Economics and psychology, including overconfidence, willpower, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, identity and ideology.