ALBERTO PRATI
After my PhD in Economics, I joined the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral research fellow of the Wellbeing Research Centre. I also serve as an associate researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics) and at the French Wellbeing Observatory (CEPREMAP).
In June and July 2022, I will be visiting the Sorbonne Economics Centre (CES, Paris, France).
I am interested in how human beings navigate the complexities of time and knowledge. This motivates my studies on memory (what are the implications of forgetting and misrecalling for judgments and decisions), subjective wellbeing (how people evaluate their feelings and how these evaluations can help guide public policies), inter-temporal choice (when and how people sacrifice for the future) and motivated beliefs (how people decide what they want to know). I also work on the promotion of sustainable behaviors and institutions.
I have been collecting and analyzing different types of data: from experiments, large surveys, administrative registers and websites.
You can contact me at:
alberto[dot]prati[at]hmc[dot]ox[dot]ac[dot]uk
prati[dot]alberto[dot]eu[at]gmail[dot]com
You can meet me at:
2022 Well-being Conference (Luxembourg, 1st-4th June 2022).
Department of Economics External Seminar (University of Malaga, June 17th 2022).
Wellbeing Research & Policy Conference (University of Oxford, 6th-8th July 2022).
"Self-serving bias” refers to situations where people distort information in a way which is favorable for themselves. But how can we test it in the lab? I present some criticisms and a solution.
Most people try to form an accurate opinion about COVID-19 vaccines. But what happens to your memories and beliefs once you received your jab? To know the answer, Charlotte Saucet and I interviewed over 1,000 UK residents before and after they received a vaccine.