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Justin Wolfers is an assistant professor of economics in the Business and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School. He is a visiting scholar with the San Francisco Federal Reserve, and a Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia. Dr. Wolfers earned his Ph.D. in economics in June 2001 from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright, Knox and Menzies Scholar and a fellow with the MacArthur Network on Inequality and Social Interactions. In 2002 he was awarded the Milken Institute prize for distinguished economic research.
Professor Wolfers' research fields are in labor economics, macroeconomics, political economy and behavioral finance, and he is also a frequent contributor to the public debate.
He joined IZA as a research fellow in November 2004. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
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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) |
| 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, 1-8) |
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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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Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
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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 (suppl. 1), 37-55) |
| 2092 |
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
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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) |
| 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) |
| 1975 |
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
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Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers
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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
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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
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