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Ori Heffetz is a Professor at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Bogen Family Department of Economics. He serves on the Bank of Israel’s Monetary Policy Committee and chairs Israel’s Public Council for Statistics. His research focuses on behavioral economics, well-being metrics, and policy design, using experimental methods to study how perceptions and data influence economic behavior and public policy.
- Affiliations: NBER Research Associate, Johnson School (Cornell), Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality (Hebrew U)
- Education: PhD in Economics (Princeton, 2005), MA (Princeton, 2002), BA in Physics & Philosophy (Tel Aviv U, 1999)
Research interests include cognitive aspects of economic decisions, privacy’s impact on behavior, and policy implications of well-being data. His award-winning macroeconomics course integrates theory with real-world events. Recent work explores nonresponse bias in surveys, privacy elasticity, and mechanism design transparency.
- Awards: Co-author of widely adopted Principles of Economics textbook, recipient of teaching awards for innovative macroeconomics instruction
He advises governmental bodies on statistics and monetary policy, contributing to Israel’s pandemic response through modeling and policy analysis. Active in academic leadership, he collaborates on interdisciplinary projects linking economics to psychology and technology.
