Behavioral Economics

90-880

Units: 12

Description

This course introduces students to behavioral economics, an emerging subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences into economics. We will examine evidence on how human behavior systematically departs from the standard assumptions of economics, and then investigate attempts by behavioral economists to improve economic analyses.

Learning Outcomes

Students will gain hands-on experience on how to design and carry out their own experiments while critically discussing existing behavioral economics research.