David Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, a faculty dean of Lowell House, and leads the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. His research focuses on the topic of behavioral economics with an emphasis on intertemporal choice, self-regulation, behavior change, household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, aging, and biosocial science. Laibson is a recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, and has been awarded Harvard’s ΦΒΚ Prize, and a Harvard College Professorship.
