April 23, 2019
Ph.D. student Sher Afghan Asad has won a Small Grant in Behavioral Economics from the Russel Sage Foundation. The foundation’s Behavioral Economics program supports research that uses behavioral insights from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States.
The $7,500 grant is for Asad's experiment on discrimination that is part of his paper, "Do workers discriminate against their outgroup employers? Evidence from an online labor market."