Hunt Allcott

Hunt Allcott

Ph.D. Public Policy 2009
Associate Professor, Department of Economics at New York University
Hunt Allcott

Professor Allcott is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in behavioral economics, environmental economics, public economics, and industrial organization. He is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. He is a Scientific Director of ideas42, a think tank that applies insights from psychology and economics to business and policy design problems, an Affiliate of Poverty Action Lab, a network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty, and a Faculty Affiliate of E2e, a group of economists, engineers, and behavioral scientists focused on evaluating and improving energy efficiency policy. He was a Contributing Author on the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor Allcott holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BS and MS from Stanford University.

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