Eve Colson-Sihra

Eve Colson-Sihra is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and PPE program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently on a visiting appointment at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge (2024-2025) and serves as an Invited Researcher at J-PAL. Her work focuses on political economy, behavioral economics, and the interplay between identity, culture, and economic behavior using consumption data.

Her research explores how identity and status concerns influence economic decisions, with notable contributions in understanding inequality and consumption patterns. She combines reduced-form and structural econometric methods in her analyses.

Recent publications include studies on inequality's impact on the needs of the poor and the revealed preference approach to identity through food consumption. Her work has appeared in high-impact journals like the Journal of Political Economy and Journal of the European Economic Association.

Eve holds affiliations with leading institutions and contributes to public discourse through media engagements like LSE Business Review articles and book reviews for La Vie des Idées.