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Justin Wolfers
Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy


Education

PhD, Harvard University, 2001; AM, Harvard University, 2000; B.Ec, University of Sydney, 1994

Academic Positions Held

2011-12: Visiting Professor, Princeton University 2008-present: Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy (with tenure) July 2010, named "Class of 1965 Wharton Term Associate Professorship" 2004-08: Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, Wharton 2001-04: Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford GSB

Economist, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1994-2001

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009

Advisory Board, HedgeStreet; Scientific Advisory Board, NewsFutures; Visiting Scholar, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic Policy Research; Research Fellow, Insitute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford).

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Publications
Joseph Price, Justin Wolfers (2010), Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers (2010), Understanding the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Risk Preferences versus Misperceptions, Journal of Political Economy
John Donohue, Justin Wolfers (2009), Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder, American Law and Economics Review
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers, The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1:2, 190–225
John J. Donohue, Justin Wolfers, Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate, Stanford Law Review, (2005) 58:791-846

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In The News
Divorce in New York: Let Them Unwed, The Economist, 06/24/2010, Justin Wolfers
Long-term jobless will still struggle, Marketplace Public Radio, 08/11/2009, Justin Wolfers
WHYY, "Radio Times", WHYY, 07/28/2009, Justin Wolfers
Forecast: There Will Be No More Cash in 2012, New York Times, 05/19/2009, Justin Wolfers

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Honors And Awards
MBA Core Teaching Award ("Tough, but we'll thank you in 5 years"), 2011
MBA Core Teaching Award ("Tough, but we'll thank you in 5 years"), 2010
Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award: Core Curriculum, 2009
MBA Core Teaching Award ("Tough, but we'll thank you in 5 years"), 2007
Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute (Germany), 2007

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Wolfers Justin
Justin Wolfers
1456 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-3013
jwolfers@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Labor economics; macroeconomics; social policy; behavioral economics; political economy; law and economics