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David Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Faculty Dean of Lowell House. He is affiliated with the Department of Economics and leads Harvard University’s Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.
- Education: AB in Economics (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, and PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994).
His research spans behavioral economics, focusing on intertemporal choice, self-regulation, behavior change, household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, aging, and biosocial science. He has contributed to understanding financial decision-making and behavioral interventions.
- Organizational Affiliations: Member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, and Aging Working Groups; Board member of the Health and Retirement Study (NIH) and Pension Research Council (Wharton); Chairman of Harvard’s Department of Economics (former); Chair of the finance committee at the Russell Sage Foundation; Advisory board member of the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium and Consumer Finance Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
- Scientific Awards: Marshall Scholarship, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and National Academy of Sciences, and two-time TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award recipient.
Laibson has served on Harvard’s Pension Investment Committee and the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His teaching excellence has been recognized with Harvard’s ΦΒΚ Prize and a Harvard College Professorship. Staff support is provided by Emily Sall for appointments and office hours coordination.
