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...David I. Laibson, a professor in the department who specializes in behavioral economics, said tax cuts for low-income households will likely be spent in the first year, rather than in the first months after...
...director of the University’s institutional research division, will be moving to the Yard in May to oversee the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Office of Faculty Affairs, according to a statement issued by the Faculty yesterday. The wife of economics professor David I. Laibson ’87, Zipser will be working primarily to coordinate faculty appointments, searches, and promotions. She described her role yesterday evening as one of support and planning. “It’ll be a mixture of providing whatever data that the Faculty and the deans feel that they...
...anticipate a response to our work and certainly did not expect to be talking about it 35 years later,” Kahneman said, in reference to his work on rapid judgments based on available and salient information, which he began in 1969. Economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 provided post-lecture commentary, describing the major impact of Kahneman and other psychologists on the field of economics. To prove his point, Laibson presented a 2006 issue of The Economist with a cover story on “Happiness” and a 10-page report about...
...Laibson, who said he knows Poterba from Laibson’s days as a graduate student at MIT, added that Poterba is known for his breadth and productivity as a scholar...
...important presence internationally for so many different parts of economics,” Laibson said. “It’s impossible to have been an economist during the past two decades and to have not gotten inspiration from his comments at conferences, or from his papers even when he’s not actually in the room...