Matthew Rabin
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics
Economics Department and Business School, Harvard University
Date of Birth
December 27, 1963
Citizenship
United States of America
Education
1981-1984 University of Wisconsin—Madison
B.A., December 1984. Honors major in economics and in mathematics.
1985 London School of Economics
Graduate Research Fee student, lent and summer terms.
1985-1989 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, June 1989, Economics.
Positions Held
1982-1984 R.A., Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin—Madison.
1985 R.A., STICERD, London School of Economics.
1989 Visiting scholar, month of June, at C.E.P.R.E.M.A.P., Paris, France.
1989-1996 Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of California— Berkeley.
1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, MIT, August 1993 – May 1994.
1996-1999 Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of California—Berkeley.
1997 Visiting Research Professor, Center for Mathematical Studies, Northwestern, Spring Quarter
1997-1998 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, September 1997 - June 1998
1999-2014 Professor, Economics Department, University of California—Berkeley
2000-2001 BP Amoco-Centennial Professor, Economics Dept, London School of Economics (visiting position).
2001-2014 Director, Program in Psychological Economics, U.C.—Berkeley
2003-2014 Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Endowed Chair in Economics
2004 Taussig Visiting Professor, Economics Department, Harvard University, 2004 (Spring, Fall).
2008 Moore Distinguished Fellow, California Institute of Technology, January-March
2009 Visiting Research Professor, Michaelmas Term, London School of Economics
2012-13 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, September 2012-June 2013
2014-Present Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics, Economics Department and HBS, Harvard
Honors, Fellowships, and Grants
“Most Likely to Express His Opinion,” high school senior class, Springbrook High School, 1981.
Dowling Scholarship, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Mathematics Department, 1984.
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1984.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988.
Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-1989.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, November 1992-October 1994.
Russell Sage Foundation, Behavioral Economics Roundtable Mini-Grant, 1995.
Graduate Economics Association, Outstanding Teaching Award, 1994-1995.
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1995-1997.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, September 1997-August 2000.
Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant, September 1998-August 2000.
Graduate Economics Association, Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999-2000.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, September 2000-August 2001.
MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2001-2005.
Elected Econometric Society Fellow, December 2000.
John Bates Clark Medal from American Economic Association, 2001.
Keynote Address, Economic Science Association Meetings, Barcelona, June 2001.
Marshall Lecture, European Economic Association Meetings, Lausanne, September 2001.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, September 2001-August 2004.
Elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 2002.
Purvis Lecture, Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Ottawa, June 2003.
The Pazner Lecture, Tel Aviv University School of Economics, January 2004.
Woodward Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 2005.
Downing Lecture, Melbourne University, March 2005.
Zeuthen Lectures, University of Copenhagen, May 2005.
Invited Lecture, Econometric Society World Congress, London, August 2005.
John von Neumann Award, Laszlo Rajk College, Budapest, June 2006.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, July 2005-2008
National Science Foundation Research Grant, May 2007-2010
Plenary Lecture, Latin American Econometric Society, Bogota, Colombia, October 2007.
Graduate Economics Association, Outstanding Advisor Award, 2008
Plenary Lecture, Latin American Econometric Society, Rio de Janeiro, October 2008.
Keynote Address, SITE Psychology and Economics Session, September 2010
Plenary Lecture, Economic Science Association, Tucson, November 2010
Plenary Lecture, IMBEE (Urrutia Elejalde Foundation Invited Speaker), Barcelona, April 2011
Cornell University, Psychology and Economics Initiative, Distinguished Visitor, April 2011
Honorary PhD, University of Zurich, April 2011
Graduate Economics Association Best Teacher Award, April 2011
Yale University, Cowles Foundation Distinguished Visitor, May 2011
Plenary Lecture, Maastricht Conference in Experimental Economics, June 2011
Manchot Lecture, University of Bonn, January 2012
Graduate Economics Association Best Teacher Award, April 2012
AFA Lecture, American Finance Association annual meetings, San Diego, January 2013
Richard Ely Lectures, Johns Hopkins University, March 2013
Clarendon Lectures, Oxford University, May 2013
Professional Activities and Service
Member, Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 1996 to present.
Co-Organizer, Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics: Berkeley, July 1996; Stanford, July 1998; Berkeley, July 2000; Berkeley, July-August 2002; Trento, Italy, July 2004; Trento, Italy, July 2006; Trento, Italy, June 2008; Trento, Italy, June-July 2010; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, July 2012; Waterville Valley New Hampshire, June-July 2014; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, June-July 2014 (planned).
Co-Organizer, Asia Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, Singapore, NUS, July-August 2010, July 2011, July-August 2012, July-August 2013.
Participant in MacArthur Research Cluster on Costs of Inequality, 1994-1999.
Participant in MacArthur Research Cluster on Norms and Preferences, 1998-2000.
Referee for: American Economic Review; American Law and Economics Review; American Political Science Review; Econometrica; Economica; Economic Journal; Economics and Politics; Games and Economic Behavior; International Economic Review; International Journal of Game Theory; International Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Rand Journal; Rationality and Society. Reviewer for: National Science Foundation Research Grants; Book for MIT Press; Book for Academic Press.
Member, Program Committee, 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society (2000).
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000-2002
Teaching (done at Berkeley unless noted otherwise)
Fall 1990 Economics 101A Intermediate Micro, undergraduate
Spring 1991 Economics 101A Intermediate Micro, undergraduate
Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Joe Farrell)
Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics
Fall 1991 Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics (with Eddie Dekel)
Spring 1992 Economics 104 Advanced Micro Theory, undergraduate
Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Carl Shapiro)
Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics
Fall 1992 Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics
Fall 1993 Economics 122 Core Micro, graduate, MIT
Economics 193 Graduate Seminar in Psychology and Economics, MIT
Spring 1994 Economics 12 Game Theory, undergraduate, MIT
Economics 126 Advanced Game Theory, graduate, MIT (with Lones Smith)
Fall 1994 Economics 104 Advanced Micro Theory, undergraduate
Economics 209A Advanced Game Theory, graduate
Spring 1995 Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Carl Shapiro)
Fall 1995 Economics 104 Advanced Micro Theory, undergraduate
Economics 209A Advanced Game Theory, graduate
Spring 1996 Economics 203 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics
Fall 1996 Economics 209A Advanced Game Theory, graduate
Economics 208 Seminar in Mathematical Economics
Spring 1997 Informal Lectures Six Lectures in Psychology & Economics, Northwestern U.)
Fall 1998 Economics 209A Advanced Game Theory, graduate
Spring 1999 Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Joe Farrell)
Fall 1999 Economics 209A Advanced Game Theory, graduate
Spring 2000 Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Ben Hermalin)
Fall 2000 Economics 502 Topics in Psychology and Economic Theory, m.phil., LSE
Spring 2001 Economics 303 Psychology and Economics, undergraduate lectures, LSE
Economics 412 Microeconomic Theory II, m.phil, LSE
Spring 2002 Economics 201B Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Botond Koszegi).
Economics 203 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2002 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Steve Goldman)
Economics 203 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Economics 296 Seminar in Psychological Economics
Fall 2003 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Steve Goldman)
Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Spring 2004 Economics 2045 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate, Harvard
Informal Lectures Four Lectures in Intertemporal Choice, LSE.
Spring 2006 Informal Lectures Four Lectures in Risk Preferences, LSE
Fall 2005 Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Spring 2006 Economics 219C Topics Psychology & Economics, (with Ulrike Malmendier)
Informal Lectures Four Lectures in Belief-Based Preferences, LSE
Fall 2006 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with David Ahn)
Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2007 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with David Ahn)
Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2008 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Chris Shannon)
Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2009 Economics 219A Psychology and Economics, graduate (with Stefano DellaVigna and Shachar Kariv)
Informal Lectures Belief-Based Utility, LSE
Spring 2010 Economics 219B Psychology and Economics, grad (jointly with Stefano Dellavigna)
Fall 2010 Economics 201A Core Micro, graduate (jointly with Chris Shannon)
Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2011 Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Spring 2014 Economics 219A Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate
Fall 2014 Economics 2035 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate, Harvard
Fall 2015 Economics 980 Psychology and Economics of Beliefs, Junior Seminar, Harvard
Economics 2035 Psychology and Economic Theory, graduate, Harvard
