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Daniel Benjamin
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  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Wandi Bruine De Bruin
  • Callan Corcoran
  • Grace Do
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Arshia Hashemi
  • Arun Hendi
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Sara King
  • Tushar Kundu
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Grace Mak
  • Erik Meijer
  • David Newman
  • Bart Orriens
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Simone Schaner
  • Arthur Stone
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Emily White
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Codi Young

Daniel Benjamin

Associate Professor (Research) of Economics

Behavioral Economics, Subjective Well-Being, and Genoeconomics.

Behavioral economics is already transforming economics and influencing policy. Subjective well-being is being taken seriously by governments around the world.

I studied psychology before I studied economics, so behavioral economics was my natural home in economics from my early days as an undergraduate. I become interested in genoeconomics before I started graduate school (around the time the Human Genome Project was completed), when I realized that genomics would in the future have substantial interplay with the social sciences. I got drawn into the study of subjective well-being when I was a postdoc at Michigan: I had long arguments with a colleague, and we ended up deciding to do some empirical research to resolve our disagreements.

Dozens of genetic variants associated with educational attainment.

...offices are indoors.

Combining two of my interests: Can we find genes associated with subjective well-being?

Dropbox, Skype, cloud computing

Iced latte

Be original but also careful.

Belief formation.

Chess master

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