ALBERTO PRATI

I am an economist, working at the intersection of behavioral economics, philosophy of science and social psychology. After my PhD, I joined University of Oxford as a postdoctoral research fellow of the Wellbeing Research Centre and SciencesPo Paris as a lecturer in Economics.

My research mainly explores the relationship between memory, judgments and decisions, with a particular focus on subjective well-being. Some of my other topics of interest are: motivated beliefs, time preferences, sustainable behavior and political preferences. My empirical approach combines the use of experiments, large surveys and administrative data.

Research Overview:

Hedonic Recall Bias

You should not ask people how much they earn. If people are happy with their wage, they will overstate it, if they are not, they will understate it.

Hedonic Telescoping

When was your last wage rise? And your last wage cut? The way you match an event with its date may depend on your current well-being. Your present shapes your past.

Inflation and Well-Being

Does money buy happiness? Well, it depends on how much it costs. Heterogeneous inflation rates can explain a lot of well-being inequalities.

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Past Well-Being

"Are you happier than last year?" Thousands of people answered this question for ten years. With Claudia Senik, we compare their actual and recalled life narratives.

Memory and Emotions

Do people forget failures in order to be happier or because they are happy? With Charlotte Saucet, we test the two hypotheses in a lab experiment.

The Italian Job

Election campaign coming soon? A political party should never announce its candidate early.

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Green Well-Being

A green and happy society: two pigeons with one stone? With Chris Krekel, we review and extend the evidence on the link between pro-environmental behaviors and subjective well-being.

Time Preferences

Duty comes before pleasure, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush... With Maria Bigoni, Davide Dragone and Stéphane Luchini, we set an experiment to understand people's preferences.

Self-Serving Bias

The phenomenon of “self-serving bias” refers to situations where people distort information in a way which is favorable for themselves. But how can we test it?

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You can contact me at: alberto[dot]prati[at]sciencespo[dot]fr

You can meet me at:

French Experimental TalkS (online), May 11th 2021

DR@W seminar (University of Warwick, online), March 11th 2021

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