Justin Wolfers Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy Faculty Research Fellow, NBER Research Affiliate, CEPR Visiting Scholar, SF Federal Reserve Research Fellow, IZA Fellow, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality International research fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy Fellow, CESifo Research Network Wharton Faculty Webpage Wharton Details: Business and Public Policy Dept. The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 1456 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall 3620 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6372 Phone: +1 (215) 898-3013 Fax: +1 (215) 898-7635 jwolfers@wharton.upenn.edu At Home: Cell: (267) 432-4372

Research interests include: Labor, macro, political economy, economics of the family, social policy, law and economics, public economics and behavioral economics.

What's New?

• Research paper: Economic Growth and Happiness: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
• New York Times article: Report Backing Clemens Chooses Its Facts Carefully
• Research paper: Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
• My new column for the Wall St Journal Online: Tracking Election '08 (using prediction markets)
• Research paper: Trends in Marital Stability
• New York Times Op-Ed: Divorced from Reality
• New York Times: Summarizes my recent research on the gender happiness gap
• Research paper: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
• New York Times Op-Ed: Blow the Whistle on Betting Scandals
• Profile of my research in: American Magazine
• Research paper: Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
• New York Times: Summarizes my recent research on Marriage and Divorce
• New York Times: 13 young economists who are "the future of economics"
• Research paper analyzing the '06 midterm elections: Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
• Research paper: Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information?  Costly Information & Business Cycle Comovement
• Research paper: Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
• Research paper: Point Shaving: Corruption in NCAA Basketball
• Research paper: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
• Research paper: Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
• Research paper: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
• Research paper: Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias
• Op-Ed: Interpreting Voter Turnout in Iraq
• Research paper: Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
• The Economist: Summarizes my recent research on Prediction Markets
• Economists' Voice: Experimental Political Betting Markets and the 2004 Election
• Chicago Tribune: Surprises from the Divorce Revolution
• Op-Ed: Why Australia should retain no-fault divorce laws
• Research Paper: Surveys the evidence to date on Prediction Markets
• KTVU covered a recent seminar on Behavioral Finance and Sports Betting
• Research Paper: Are Divorce Laws responsible for Rising Divorce?
• NY Times write-up of "What do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?"
• Op-Ed: Policy Improves by Putting Rhetoric on Trial
• Featured in Forbes: Super Bowl Science (behavioral finance meets sports)
• A new course on the behavioral finance and economics of Sports Betting.
• Are gay cities fabulous cities?  An initial op-ed sparked a press controversy.