
ALBERTO PRATI
I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at UCL, where I teach economic psychology and how to use subjective data to answer public policy questions. I also serve as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and as an Associate Researcher at the London School of Economics.
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I am a behavioural economist, working on:
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Wellbeing: improving the quality of wellbeing data collected in large scale-surveys (including life satisfaction, job satisfaction and financial satisfaction).
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(Mis)-judgments: understanding why people form and entertain different opinions (both professional and personal).
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Measurement: developing behavioral methods to measure elusive concepts (like time preferences, social connectedness, inflation inequalities and universal emotions).
You can contact me at:
a[dot]prati[at]ucl[dot]ac[dot]uk
prati[dot]alberto[dot]eu[at]gmail[dot]com
You can hear about my research at:
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UCL, University lunch lecture (May 22, online)
University of Bologna, 18th Workshop on Social Economy for Young Economists (May 28-29, Forlì)
Busara, ESA Africa (June 25-27, Nairobi)
Royal Holloway, London Behavioural and Experimental Economics Workshop (July 3, London)
Statec, ISQOLS annual meeting (22-25July, Luxembourg)
Paris School of Economics, Workshop in honour of William Easterlin (26 September, Paris)
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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.
Research Keywords:
life satisfaction, subjective well-being, memory, motivated beliefs, motivated reasoning, feeling, emotion, evaluative judgment, bias, carbon footprint, time preferences, measurement, methodology, experiment, survey.
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