Stefano DellaVigna

Assistant Professor

Fields: Behavioral economics, Applied Micro

Research interests: Economics of media; time inconsistency; attention; contract design for boundedly rational agents; aging; job search; decision theory

Stefano DellaVigna was educated at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 2002, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. He also is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University in 2005. He was awarded the Bank of Italy Stringher Fellowship in 1999 and 2000.

Professor DellaVigna is a 2004 recipient of UC Berkeley's Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award and was awarded Harvard University's GIC Award for Excellence in Teaching of a Graduate Course in 2000.