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March 15, 2019

Chris Roth wins dissertation prize and project grant

University of Oxford and Fritz Thyssen Foundation recognize briq researcher's work

After winning two prestigious science prizes last year, briq researcher Chris Roth has now also been awarded the 2019 Edgeworth prize for his outstanding doctoral thesis entitled “Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behaviour”. The topics covered in his dissertation include labor market concerns and support for immigration; measuring and bounding experimenter demand effects; public debt and the demand for government spending and taxation; and conspicuous consumption and peer effects.

Chris also received a project grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation worth 160,000 euros for a project that aims at gaining insights from a field experiment on how households adjust their consumption expenditures in response to changes in their expected future income. This is a joint project with Johannes Wohlfart, with whom Chris also co-authored the paper “Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution”, which was recently cited in the New York Times.

About Chris Roth

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Before joining briq as a postdoctoral fellow, Chris studied economics at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. His fields of specialization are economics & psychology, applied microeconometrics, and political economy. He is especially interested in the role of subjective beliefs in shaping economic and political behavior. Chris' work has examined a variety of topics, such as attitudes towards immigration, beliefs about racial discrimination, experimenter demand effects, the formation of macroeconomic expectations, and the determinants of political engagement. Methodologically, his work relies on online experiments, natural field experiments and laboratory experiments.

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