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Colin D. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in experimental, behavioral, and labor economics. He previously held positions as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Sullivan earned his PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an AM in Statistics from Harvard University, and a dual BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Chicago.
His research focuses on labor markets, organ markets, and matching markets, employing experimental methodologies to study incentive design and preference elicitation. Key projects include developing the Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR) framework to assess employer preferences, analyzing paternalistic discrimination in labor markets, and exploring ethical decision-making in organ transplantation. His work bridges theoretical models with real-world applications, often combining field experiments with structural econometric analyses.
Sullivan’s research has been published in prestigious journals like the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. He investigates topics ranging from gender employment gaps to survival inequality preferences, with a particular emphasis on how institutions and incentives shape market outcomes. His methodological innovations aim to improve the reliability of experimental evidence in sensitive policy domains.
No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided materials. His current projects include studies on dependency traps, stubbornness gaps in decision-making, and craving-based models of habits. He maintains collaborations with researchers in labor economics, development economics, and health policy.
