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Tony Q. Fan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama's Department of Economics. He completed his PhD in Economics at Stanford University (expected June 2023), advised by B. Douglas Bernheim, Muriel Niederle, and Matthew Gentzkow. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, with secondary expertise in household finance and applied microeconomics. His work explores belief updating mechanisms, motivated reasoning in decision-making, and the political economy of paternalistic welfare policies.
Key contributions include identifying the 'inference-forecast gap' in belief updating and demonstrating how motivated reasoning affects correlation neglect. He has presented research at leading conferences like SITE, NBER, and the American Economic Association. His recent work examines interventionist preferences in in-kind aid distribution, revealing non-welfarist motives among policymakers.
Publications include a forthcoming article in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and a revise-and-resubmit at Econometrica. His research employs experimental methods, often pre-registered with the AEA, ensuring methodological rigor.
