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Shachar Kariv is the Benjamin N. Ward Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2003. He has a rich academic career that includes being the Department Chair from 2014 to 2017 and serving as the Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory from 2009 to 2014. His research primarily focuses on Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, and Behavioral Economics, with current interests in social networks and social learning. Kariv has held several visiting positions, including at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, the European University Institute, and Stanford University. He has received numerous awards for his teaching excellence, including the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and the NYU Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Joined the Department of Economics; served as Department Chair and Faculty Director of the Experimental Social Science Laboratory.
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