Hidden Costs of CEO Stress, an Interview with Marius Guenzel
Winter 2025
Marius Guenzel discusses his research on CEO Stress, Aging, and Death, a study co-authored with Ulrike Malmendier. He explains that high-pressure leadership roles come with real and measurable health costs. The study used machine learning to track facial aging and showed that heavy job demands, especially during crises like the Great Recession, can accelerate aging by roughly a full year over a decade.
The No Club, an Interview with Lise Vesterlund
Fall 2025
Lise Vesterlund shares how The No Club began as a personal effort to manage overwhelming workloads and eventually became research that showed how women take on “non-promotable tasks” – the necessary but invisible work that doesn’t lead to promotions or advancement in a woman’s career.
Tackling Psychological Barriers to Employment in Kenya
Spring 2025
An interview with Matthew Ridley (University of Warwick) and Professor Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley) discussing Ridley’s work in Nairobi, Kenya, which aims to show how employers can improve both performance and worker wellbeing by addressing the adverse effects of stress and anxiety.
The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
Spring 2025
In this short interview with Ulrike Malmendier, Gautam Rao describes his work exploring chronic sleep deprivation in urban India. His findings show that the urban poor in India experience severely fragmented sleep, comparable to people with clinical sleep apnea or a 90-year-old from the U.S.
Shaping the Future: Chancellor Rich Lyons on Leadership, Innovation, and Behavioral Economics at UC Berkeley
Fall 2024
In this interview, Rich Lyons, the newly appointed chancellor of UC Berkeley, reflects on the interplay of intentionality and serendipity in his academic journey, shaped by pivotal mentorships that redirected his career from business to economics.
Advising Germany
Spring 2023
Professor Ulrike Malmendier discusses her role as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts—the country’s top government advisory board on economic policy.