Dr. Sara Constantino

Biography

Sara Constantino is an assistant professor at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. She is also a visiting research scholar at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs and a faculty affiliate at SPARQ Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute. With an interdisciplinary background at the intersection of economics, psychology, and environmental policy, Sara's research focuses on understanding the interplay between individual, collective, and institutional ecological factors that shape preferences and decisions regarding resilience to extreme events and shocks. Her recent studies investigate the role of polarization, social norms, and governance in stimulating or stifling climate action, as well as the conditions that lead groups to mobilize and shape policy outcomes. She has researched the impacts of politics on guaranteed income and cash transfer programs. Prior to her position at Stanford, she served as an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, and was an associate research scholar at Princeton. She has also held positions as a senior research fellow at the Jain Family Institute, was a founding editor of Nature Human Behavior, and worked as a research coordinator at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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