2025 | Frank Schilbach

Research areas: Behavioral economics, development economics

Schilbach explores the relationship between poverty and economic behavior by investigating factors associated with poverty, including mental distress, sleep deprivation, and substance abuse. He also studies behavioral barriers to the diffusion of information in developing countries.

Describing efforts to broaden access to and the reach of economics, professor and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee says, “his patient efforts in convincing students that they need to make economics a part of their general education was a key reason why innovations [to broaden the major] succeeded.”