Leonardo Bursztyn
Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Political Economics Initiative
Leonardo Bursztyn is a current Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He uses field experiments to understand how individuals make schooling, consumption, and financial decisions, and in particular, how these decisions are shaped by individuals' social environments. His research has been published in such leading academic journals as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of...