Lise Vesterlund | |
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Alma mater | University of Copenhagen University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Occupation(s) | Behavioral and experimental economist |
Lise Vesterlund is a behavioral and experimental economist, and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.[1] She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[2] From 1997 to 2001, she was assistant professor at the Iowa State University.[3] She is on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy[4] and of the Experimental Economics journal.[5] Since 2018, she is a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics.[6]
Vesterlund earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1990, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1997.[7]
Her research mainly focuses on charitable giving and gender differences in the labor market. She has published in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics[8][9] and the American Economic Review[10] and her work has been quoted over 10000 times.[11] In her most quoted paper[11] (with Muriel Niederle), "Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?", they examine in a laboratory environment how men and women react differently to competition. They find that men prefer competition as they tend to be overconfident.[9] Her research has been featured in news outlets including the New York Times,[12] the Washington Post,[13] The Atlantic,[14] Bloomberg,[15] Time magazine,[16] and CNBC.[17]