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Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is also a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research; a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn; a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London; an International Research Fellow with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a Fellow of the CESifo, in Munich. He was previously a visiting professor at Princeton, an Associate Professor at Wharton, an Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Dr. Wolfers earned his Ph.D. in economics in 2001 from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright, Knox and Menzies Scholar. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics his native Australia at the University of Sydney in 1994, winning the University Medal.
Wolfers' research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics, political economy, law and economics, social policy and behavioral economics. Beyond research, he is a columnist for Bloomberg View, a sometime blogger for Freakonomics, and a commentator for public radio's Marketplace program. He is also a popular teacher, with many teaching awards to his name.
He joined IZA as a research fellow in November 2004. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Devin G. Pope
Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Subjective Well‐Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 598-604)
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
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Daniel W. Sacks
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
(published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article))
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Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting
(published in: Handbook of Economic Forecasting, 2013, 2A, 657-684)
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Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
(Published in: Leighton Vaughn Williams (ed), Prediction Markets, Routledge, 2011.)
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287)
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Daniel W. Sacks
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
(published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012)
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Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746)
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225)
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| 3654 |
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 1-87)
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79)
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| 2863 |
Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(4), 1859-1887)
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Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(2), 27-52)
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Laura Veldkamp
Justin Wolfers
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Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54 (s1), 37-55)
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| 2092 |
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
(published in: Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock (eds), Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions in the Public and Private Sectors, AEI-Brookings Press, 2006)
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| 1996 |
Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 807-829)
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| 1991 |
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice
(published in: Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed (London: Palgrave), 2007)
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| 1975 |
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
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| 1972 |
Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers
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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340)
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| 1949 |
John J. Donohue III
Justin Wolfers
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
(published in: Stanford Law Review, 2005, 58(3), 791-845)
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Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (2-3), 531-541)
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Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2006, 39 (2), 176-184)
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Refet S. Gürkaynak
Justin Wolfers
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Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
(published in: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2005, 11 - 50)
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