Recent Publications



Aldo Rustichini, William G. Jacono, James L. Lee, Matt McGue, Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis, Journal of Political Economy, 131, 10, 2724-2779, 2023.

Aldo Rustichini, Philippe Domenech, Claudia Civai, Colin G. DeYoung, Working memory and attention in choice, PLOS ONE, October 11, 2023

Sassenberg, Tyler A., Philip C. Burton, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Rex E. Jung, Aldo Rustichini, R. Nathan Spreng, and Colin G. DeYoung, Conscientiousness associated with efficiency of the salience-ventral attention network: Replication in three samples using individualized parcellation., NeuroImage 272 (2023): 120081.

Rustichini, Aldo. Economics with a biological foundation. Indian Economic Review 58.1 (2023): 1-40. (Revised text of the lectures at the New Delhi School of Economics and Econometric Society school, December 2022).

Lee, D. G., D'Alessandro, M., Iodice, P., Calluso, C., Rustichini, A., & Pezzulo, G. (2023). Risky decisions are influenced by individual attributes as a function of risk preference, Cognitive Psychology, 147, 1-22, 101614.

Tommaso Denti, Massimo Marinacci, Aldo Rustichini, Experimental Cost of Information, American Economic Review, 112 (9), 3106-3123. Online Appendix

Simone Cerrei-Vioglio, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, Aldo Rustichini, Multinomial logit processes and preference discovery: inside and outside the black box, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. Appendix

Carlo Reverberi, Doris Pischedda, Marco Mantovani, John-Dylan Hynes, Aldo Rustichini, Strategic Complexity and Cognitive Skills Affect Brain Response in Interactive Decision-Making, Scientific Reports,  Scientific Reports, 12, 1. 1-18,  2022.

 Alexandros Giannelis, Emily A. Willoughby; Robin Corley; Christian Hopfer; John K. Hewitt; William G. Iacono; Jacob Anderson; Aldo Rustichini; Scott Vrieze; Matt McGue; James J. Lee, The association between saving disposition and financial distress: A genetically informed approachJournal of Economic Psychology, 96, 2023


Christopher Dawes, Aysu Okbay, Sven Oskarsson, Aldo Rustichini, A Polygenic Score for Educational Attainment partially Predicts Voter Turnout, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, December 2021. Link to the paper on  PNAS site


Eugenio Proto, Andis Sofianos, Aldo Rustichini,  Intelligence, Errors and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions, Review of Economic Studies, November 2021


Sophie Bavard, Aldo Rustichini, Stefano Palminteri,

The other side of the coin: the paradoxical consequences of range adaptation in human reinforcement learning, Science Advances, 7, 14, 2021.


Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, Aldo Rustichini, A Canon of Probabilistic Rationality, Journal of Economic Theory, 2021.


Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Rapallini and Aldo Rustichini; School Friendship Networks, Homophily and Multiculturalism: Evidence from European Countries,  Journal of Population Economics, 2021, February


Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, Aldo Rustichini, Axiomatic Tests for the Boltzmann Distribution, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiments, 2021, January


Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Rapallini, Aldo Rustichini

The Slippery Slope from Pluralistic to Plural Societies, World Scientific Encyclopedia of Global Migration, World Scientific, 2020, Editor Robert Sauer


Matt McGue,  Emily A. Willoughby,  Aldo Rustichini, Wendy Johnson, William G. Iacono, James J. Lee, The contribution of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Intergenerational Mobility, Psychological Science, 2020

Supplementary Material 

Emily A. Willoughby, Matt McGue, William G. Iacono, Aldo Rustichini, James J. Lee, The role of parental genotype in predicting offspring years of education: Evidence for genetic nurture. Molecular Psychiatry, (2019)

Amanda R. Rueter, Samantha V. Abram, Angus W. MacDonald III, Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, The Goal Priority Network as a Neural Substrate of Conscientiousness, Human Brain Mapping, forthcoming

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos, 

Intelligence, Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming

Aldo Rustichini, Katherine E. Conen, Xinying Cai, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Optimal coding and neuronal adaptation in economic decisions, Nature Communications, 2017

Aldo Rustichini 

Aldo Rustichini, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 1925 4th Street South 4-101, Hanson Hall, Minneapolis, MN  55455, aldo.rustichini@gmail.com