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American professor of economics
B. Douglas Bernheim
is an American professor of
Economics
, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at
Stanford University
; his previous academic appointments have included an endowed chair in Economics and Business Policy at
Princeton University
and an endowed chair in Insurance and Risk Management at
Northwestern University
’s J.L. Kellogg
Graduate School of Management, Department of Finance.
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He has published many articles in academic journals, and has received a number of awards recognizing his contributions to the field of economics. He is a partner with
Bates White
, LLC an economic consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and San Diego, California.
Life and work
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Douglas Bernheim studied from 1975 to 1979 at
Harvard University
, where he received his Bachelor of Arts (AB), summa cum laude. In 1982, he received his PhD in economics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.
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Subsequently, he was an assistant professor (1982?1987) and associate professor (1987?1988) at Stanford University. Bernheim moved to
Northwestern University
to serve as the Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management (1988?1990) and later moved to Princeton University (1990?1994) to serve as the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy. Since 1994 he has worked again at Stanford University: From 1994 to 2005 as the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor and since 2005 as the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics. Since 1986, he has also conducted research for the
National Bureau of Economic Research
.
Bernheim works in the fields of finance, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, and
microeconomics
.
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His sister is
Robin Bernheim
, the noted writer/producer of many TV shows, including
Remington Steele
,
Quantum Leap
,
Star Trek: Voyager
, and
When Calls the Heart
.
Awards and affiliations
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- 1978
Phi Beta Kappa
- 1979 John H. Williams Prize (for best graduate in economics)
- 1991 Elected Fellow, Econometric Society
- 1997 Elected Fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001?2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
- 2001?2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
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