Stefano DellaVigna
Daniel Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration, UC Berkeley
Stefano DellaVigna (Ph.D. 2002, Harvard) is the Daniel Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2008–2010), and a Distinguished Teaching Award winner (2008). He specialises in Behavioural Economics and has published in international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is currently the Chair of UC Berkeley Economics Department, and served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in economics, from 2017 to 2023.
Recent work by Stefano DellaVigna
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Can forecasting social science make experiments better?
Evidence from 100 Social Science Prediction Platform projects shows that research forecasts are too optimistic on average, but still predictive enough to improve study design when they are combined, shrunk, and weighted carefully.
Published 20.07.26