Philip Marx
Assistant Professor, LSU
Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professorship
Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professorship
Welcome to my website! I am an Assistant Professor at LSU, with interests in microeconomic and econometric theory. To me these interests are connected by a simple motivating question: what can we learn from observing choices made under uncertainty? Across different settings, I combine fundamental economic structure with observed behavior to identify latent objects such as preferences, beliefs, information, and treatment effects. These settings include: (i) discrimination in decision making, in particular distinguishing between its taste-based and statistical origins; (ii) algorithmic behavior and human adoption, where I study how induced incentives and beliefs affect decision-making performance; and (iii) foundational paradigms for empirical inference, including the use of state-dependent stochastic choice data to model endogenous information acquisition and the application of econometric frameworks for causal inference.
Previously I was a postdoc at Harvard University. Before that I completed my PhD at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Please don't hesitate to get in touch!