Roland J. M. Bénabou

Roland J. M. Bénabou is a Professor at Princeton University holding a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs since 1999.

His research bridges macroeconomic and microeconomic domains, with three core contemporary focuses: (1) inequality, economic growth, social mobility, and political economy of redistribution; (2) education, social interactions, and urban socioeconomic structures; (3) behavioral economics examining extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation, prosocial behavior determinants, and motivated beliefs at individual (overconfidence, identity) and collective (ideology, market manias) levels.

Professor Bénabou's scholarly impact is recognized through these major honors:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
• French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques corresponding membership
• Econometric Society Fellowship
• National Bureau of Economic Research Research Associateship
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2021 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize from Toulouse School of Economics

He served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review (2014-2020) and editorial boards of Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. The source text contains no information regarding advised students, research grants, laboratory affiliations, or team leadership.