Senior Manager, Principal Economist, Amazon
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
Research Interests:
Behavioral Economics; Experimental Design; Advertising; Finance; Real Estate; Attrition; Worker Compensation and Benefits; Internet Search
Salar Jahedi is a Principal Economist at Amazon, and an Affiliate professor at the University of Washington. His academic research has focused on improving individual decisionmaking. He has studied, for example, how the presentation and arrangement of information can alter individuals’ economic choices, the mechanisms by which this occurs, and how to use this knowledge to design policies that will be effective in the long-run. At Amazon, he leads a small science team that works on applied econometric problems including: supply and demand estimation, program evaluation, experimental design, and forecasting. Prior to Amazon, he was an Economist and Director of the Behavioral Finance Forum at the RAND Corporation, and prior to that he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, where he conducted tens of lab and field experiments. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2009, specializing in the field of behavioral and experimental economics.