December 17, 2020 |
Laura Schechter, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, is among 26 faculty winners of the 2020-2021 Vilas Associates Competition. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Graduate School Research Committees on the basis of a detailed proposal.
Schechter is an international development economist, and her research lies at the intersection of development economics and behavioral economics. Most of her work uses experiments to help understand behavior in the context of trust and trustworthiness, and risk and vulnerability. She is especially interested in social networks in developing countries and technology adoption.