Leeat Yariv

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Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow of CEPR, and a Research Associate of NBER. She is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL). Yariv is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at UCLA and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton in 2017. She has served on various journal editorial boards, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, and Quantitative Economics.

Yariv’s research focuses on political economy, market design, social and economic networks, and experimental economics.

Yariv was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.^[1]

Education[]

Yariv received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.Sc. in Physics from Tel Aviv University in 1992. She received an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2001.^[2]

Academic Appointments[]

From 2001 to 2002, Yariv was appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in their Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation. Later, from 2004-2005, she continued as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Caltech in their Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. After, she spent the fall of 2008 as a Visiting Scholar in New York University's Department of Economics. In 2014, she was appointed as Director of Caltech's Social Science Laboratory (SSEL) until 2017. From 2015 to 2016 returned to Yale University where she was a Visiting Professor in the Cowles Foundation. From fall of 2016 to 2017, she started her career at Princeton University as a Visiting Professor in their Department of Economics. In 2018, she continued her career at Princeton University as Director for the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL) where she works presently.^[3]

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