Professor | Daniel Koshland, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Economics
Economic Analysis & Policy
About
Stefano DellaVigna is the Daniel Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2008-10), and a Distinguished Teaching Award winner (2008). He specializes in Behavioral Economics and has published in international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has been a co-editor of the American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in economics, from 2017 to 2023.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Behavioral Finance
- Behavioral Economics
- Psychology and Economics
- Media Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Doug Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson. Structural Behavioral Economics. Handbook of Behavioral Economics.
2018 - Stefano DellaVigna and Devin Pope. What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts. Review of Economic Studies.
2017 - Stefano DellaVigna and Devin Pope. Predicting Experimental Results: Who Knows What?. Journal of Political Economy.
2017 - Stefano DellaVigna, Attila Lindner, Balazs Reizer, and Johannes Schmieder. Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
2017 - Stefano DellaVigna and Johannes Hermle. Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews. Review of Economic Studies.
2017 - Stefano DellaVigna, John List, Ulrike Malmendier, and Gautam Rao. Voting to Tell Others. Review of Economic Studies.
2017 - Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight, and Eliana La Ferrara. Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy. AEJ: Applied Economics.
2016
At Haas since 2014
2014 – present, Professor of Business Administration
2013 – present, Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
2012 – 2013, Professor, Department of Economics
2008 – 2012, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
2002 – 2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Visiting Positions
2017 – 2018, Visiting Professor, University of Bonn, Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq)
2015 – 2016, Visiting Professor, University of Bonn, Department of Economics
2005, Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Department of Economics
2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
- 2017 – 2023, Co-Editor, American Economic Review
- 2018 – 2019, Co-Editor, Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Elsevier (with Doug Bernheim and David Laibson)
- 2009-present, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, (Labor Studies, Political Economy)
- 2004-2009, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (Labor Studies, Political Economy)
Fellow, The Econometric Society
2021
Fellow, The American Academic of Arts & Sciences
2021
AEJ-Applied Best Paper Prize
2017
Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters
2016, 2017, 2018
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2008-2010
UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award
2008
- Six faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, UC Berkeley News, 04/22/2021
- The Influence You Have: Why We Fail To See Our Power Over Others, NPR, 02/24/2020
- Twelve leading economists on the research that shaped our world in 2018, Quartz, 12/28/2018
- Innovación para ejercitarse: el argentino que salió a competirle al crossfit, La Nacion (Spanish), 12/23/2016
- Three Haas faculty named among world’s most cited researchers, Haas Newsroom, 01/20/2016