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Since receiving his Ph.D. from [[Tilburg University]] in 1997, Gneezy has started a few lines of research that have become part of the agenda in behavioral economics. Examples include papers on gender differences, discrimination, deception, the uncertainty effect, and the counter-productivity of incentives. In his research, he typically starts with new and original questions the literature has not yet investigated, and addresses them with simple empirical demonstrations of powerful psychological effects. Rather than testing theories, Gneezy begins with the demonstration of behavioral effect. |
Since receiving his Ph.D. from [[Tilburg University]] in 1997, Gneezy has started a few lines of research that have become part of the agenda in behavioral economics. Examples include papers on gender differences, discrimination, deception, the uncertainty effect, and the counter-productivity of incentives. In his research, he typically starts with new and original questions the literature has not yet investigated, and addresses them with simple empirical demonstrations of powerful psychological effects. Rather than testing theories, Gneezy begins with the demonstration of behavioral effect. |
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Much of Gneezy's effort is concentrated around the effects of incentives. In the papers on the counter-productivity of incentives, Gneezy and co-authors demonstrate that sometimes paying people small amounts of money can result in a reduction in effort (“Pay Enough or Don’t Pay at All”)<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/pay-enough.pdf</ref> and that imposing a fine on people, such as on parents who are late to pick up their children from day care, can result in more parents arriving late (“A Fine is a Price”).<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine.pdf</ref> Sometimes even offering large sums of money as an incentive can be counterproductive: although one might see an increase in effort, the possibility of choking under pressure can reduce performance (“Large Stakes and Big Mistakes”).<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/large-stakes.pdf</ref> However, sometimes incentives crowd-in behavior: paying people to attend a gym for a month resulted in a long-term increase in exercising, well after the incentives were removed (“Incentives to Exercise”).<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/incentives-exercise.pdf</ref> This literature is surveyed in “When and why incentives (don’t) work.”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/jep_published.pdf</ref> |
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Incentives are important in other domains, such as deception, where the decision of whether to deceive depends on the decision maker’s incentives to lie, as well as the cost to the other person (“Deception: The Role of Consequences”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/deception.pdf</ref> and “White Lies”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/white_lies.pdf</ref>). Studying gender differences in economic decision making (“Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences,”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/gender-differences.pdf</ref> “Gender and Competition at a Young Age”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/gender.pdf</ref> and “Gender differences in competition: Evidence from a matrilineal and patriarchal societies”<ref>http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/gender-differences-competition.pdf</ref>) have started a new literature looking at gender differences in competition, risk taking, and other economic preferences. This literature is survived in “Gender Differences in Preferences” that integrates what is known about gender differences, and set up new and open questions. |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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Uri Gneezy (born June 6, 1967) is the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and Professor of Economics & Strategy at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego. Gneezy is also a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED).
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| Born | June 6, 1967 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
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| Field | Behavioral economics Negotiation Strategy Business ethics |
| Institution | University of California, San Diego |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Tilburg University |
Education and Career[1]
Gneezy studied economics at Tel Aviv University, where he obtained a BA and graduated with honors. He later got his MA and Ph.D (1997) at the CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg University. Gneezy is known for designing simple clever experiments to demonstrate behavioral phenomena that open up new research directions in behavioral economics. Examples include his work on when and how incentives work, deception, gender differences in competitiveness, and behavioral pricing. In his recent work Gneezy is taking behavioral economics findings out to the real world, conducting experiments with companies to improve incentive schemes and pricing strategies. Gneezy and co-author John A. List have published a book on the hidden motives and undiscovered economics of everyday life, titled The Why Axis.[2]
Before joining the Rady School, Gneezy was a faculty member at the University of Chicago, Technion and Haifa University.
Research
Since receiving his Ph.D. from Tilburg University in 1997, Gneezy has started a few lines of research that have become part of the agenda in behavioral economics. Examples include papers on gender differences, discrimination, deception, the uncertainty effect, and the counter-productivity of incentives. In his research, he typically starts with new and original questions the literature has not yet investigated, and addresses them with simple empirical demonstrations of powerful psychological effects. Rather than testing theories, Gneezy begins with the demonstration of behavioral effect.
Personal life
Gneezy currently resides in San Diego, CA with his wife and three children.
Selected Publications[3]
- Gneezy, U., and A. Rustichini “Pay Enough or Don't Pay At All.” Quarterly Journal of Economics August 2000, 791-810.
- Gneezy, U., and A. Rustichini “A Fine is a Price,” Journal of Legal Studies, vol. XXIX, 1, part 1, 2000, 1-18.
- Ariely, D., U. Gneezy, G. Loewenstein and N. Mazar (2008) “Large Stakes and Big Mistakes,” The Review of Economic Studies, 76, 451-469.
- Charness, G. and U. Gneezy (2008) “Incentives to Exercise.” Econometrica, 77 (3), 909-931.
- Gneezy, U. S. Meier and P. Rey-Biel (2011) “When and Why Incentives (Don’t) Work to Modify Behavior.” Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Perspectives.
- Gneezy, U. “Deception: The role of consequences,” American Economic Review, 2005, 384-394.
- Erat, S. and U. Gneezy (2011) “White Lies.” Forthcoming in Management science.
- Gneezy, U., M. Niederle, and A. Rustichini “Performance in competitive environments: Gender differences,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2003, p. 1049-1074.
- Gneezy, U., and A. Rustichini “Gender and competition at a young age," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2004, 377-381.
- Gneezy, U, Leonard, K.L. and List, J.A. (2009) “Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society.” Econometrica, 77, 5, 1637-1664.
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