Roland Bénabou

Roland Bénabou is a Professor at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he has been faculty since 1999. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research integrates macroeconomics and microeconomics, focusing on three primary domains:

• Inequality, economic growth, social mobility, and redistribution policies
• Education systems, social interactions, and urban socioeconomic structures
• Behavioral economics, including intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, prosocial behavior, and individual/collective belief formation (e.g., identity, ideology, market psychology)

Professor Bénabou serves on editorial boards of leading journals including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of the European Economic Association.

Notable scientific recognitions include:

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Fellow of the Econometric Society
• Research Fellow at CEPR and NBER
• Senior Fellow at BREAD
• Member of the Institute for Advanced Study