Muriel Niederle

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Muriel Niederle (born c. 1970) is a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Niederle teaches courses at Stanford University focusing specifically on experimental economics and market design. [1] Muriel Niederle is interested in studying behavioral and experimental economics. [2] Niederle's most recent publication was "Probabilistic States versus Multiple Certainties: The Obstacle of Uncertainty in Contingent Reasoning" in November 2017. [3] She was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2017. [4] [5]

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Career

Niederle earned her doctorate in Economics at Harvard University in 2002 and after graduating became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007 and full Professor in 2012. [6] Niederle is an NBER Research Associate and the organizer of the annual SITE conference on Experimental Economics at Stanford. [6]

Niederle maintains a blog on behavioral and experimental economics, and gender. [7] Furthermore, since 2010 she is an associate editor of the American Economic Journal- Microeconomics, and since 2009 she is associate editor of the Journal of European Economic Association and associate editor of Quantitative Economics. [8] Moreover Niederle shared her experiences as a mentor at the CeMent CSWEP Mentoring Workshop on January 5–7, 2014 in Philadelphia. [8]

Research

Some of Niederle's most-cited work examines gender competitive norms, such as in "Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much?" (2007) with Lise Vesterlund, [9] and "Performance in competitive environments: Gender differences" [10] (2003) with Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini. [11]

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  7. "Experimental and Behavioral Economics". experimentalandbehavioral.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
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  9. Niederle, Muriel, and Lise Vesterlund (2007). "Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of Economics. 122 (3): 1067–1101. doi:10.1162/qjec.122.3.1067.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. Gneezy, Muriel Niederle, Aldo Rustichini, Uri (2003). "Performance in competitive environments: Gender differences". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 118 (3): 1049–1074. doi:10.1162/00335530360698496.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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