Roland Benabou

Position
Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
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