Position
Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Email
Office
286 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Bio/Description
Research Interests: Inequality, redistributive policies, and growth; education and school finance; social mobility; cities, economic geography; psychology and economics
Selected Publications
"Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract," American Economic Review, March 2000.
"Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The POUM Hypothesis" (with Efe Ok), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001.
"Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics" (with Jean Tirole), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006.
"Ideology", Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2008