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Ted O’Donoghue
Zubrow Professor of Economics; Senior Associate Dean for Social Science
Uris Hall, Room 482
edo1@cornell.edu
607-255-5108
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996
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Overview
Ted O’Donoghue is one of the leaders of the generation of behavioral economists who helped bring this research into mainstream economics in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. He holds degrees from Dartmouth (A.B. in Economics modified with Psychology, 1990) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. in Economics, 1996). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern for one year before joining the faculty at Cornell in 1997.
Departments/Programs
- Economics
Graduate Fields
- Economics
Research
- Behavioral economics
- Industrial organization
- Game theory.
- Time-inconsistent preferences and self-control problems
- The role of self-control problems for procrastination and addiction
- Mispredictions of future utility.