Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Center for Experimental Social Science New York University
David Cesarini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics & Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University. He is an empirically oriented economist with interests in applied microeconomics, as well as behavioral and experimental economics. To date, much of David Cesarini'ʹs work has used genetically informative datasets, often coupled with experimental methods, to answer questions about sources of individual differences in economic preferences, behaviors and outcomes. In recent work he has explored how molecular genetic data can be used to shed light on economic questions. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.