Sendhil Mullainathan

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Sendhil Mullainathan is an economist and professor known for his work in behavioral economics, development economics, and the application of data science and machine learning to social and economic problems.

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instanceOf economist
person
university professor
academicDegree PhD in economics
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED
boardMemberOf ideas42 NERFINISHED
citizenship United States of America
coAuthor Andrei Shleifer NERFINISHED
Eldar Shafir NERFINISHED
Jann Spiess NERFINISHED
Joshua D. Angrist NERFINISHED
Marianne Bertrand NERFINISHED
Markus Mobius NERFINISHED
Ziad Obermeyer NERFINISHED
coAuthorOf Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth India NERFINISHED
educatedAt Harvard University
employer Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
University of Chicago Booth School of Business NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork applied microeconomics
behavioral economics
data science
development economics
machine learning
public policy
hasRole co-founder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
co-founder of ideas42
influencedBy behavioral economics tradition of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
knownFor application of machine learning to social problems
research on behavioral biases in economic decision-making
research on poverty and scarcity
work on discrimination and algorithmic fairness
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
notableWork Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much NERFINISHED
positionHeld professor of computation and behavioral science
professor of economics
researchInterest algorithmic bias
consumer behavior
financial decision-making
health care
labor markets
poverty

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee coAuthor Sendhil Mullainathan
Richard H. Thaler doctoralStudent Sendhil Mullainathan