Research

I am a behavioral and experimental economist whose research focuses on decision making under risk and uncertainty and its applications in health economics. My work advances the robust estimation of individual risk preferences using Bayesian econometric methods, applies these estimates to the evaluation of individual welfare, and informs our understanding of consequential decisions in health—including vaccination, surgical discharge, and treatment choice. Two unifying themes run through my research. First, individual heterogeneity in risk preferences, time preferences, and beliefs is not a nuisance to be averaged away but the central object of interest for both descriptive and normative economics. Second, methodological rigor in measuring these individual characteristics is the prerequisite both for credible welfare analysis and for understanding the decisions those characteristics drive.