Lise Vesterlund

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Lise Vesterlund
Alma mater University of Copenhagen
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation(s)Behavioral and experimental economist

Lise Vesterlund is a behavioral and experimental economist, and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. [1] She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. [2] From 1997 to 2001, she was assistant professor at the Iowa State University. [3] She is on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [4] and of the Experimental Economics journal. [5] Since 2018, she is a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. [6]

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Education

Vesterlund earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1990, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1997. [7]

Research

Her research mainly focuses on charitable giving and gender differences in the labor market. She has published in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics [8] [9] and the American Economic Review [10] and her work has been quoted over 10000 times. [11] In her most quoted paper [11] (with Muriel Niederle), "Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?", they examine in a laboratory environment how men and women react differently to competition. They find that men prefer competition as they tend to be overconfident. [9] Her research has been featured in news outlets including the New York Times, [12] the Washington Post, [13] The Atlantic, [14] Bloomberg, [15] Time magazine, [16] and CNBC. [17]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Lise Vesterlund Home". www.lisevesterlund.com/. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Lise Vesterlund". www.nber.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  3. ↑ "Lise Vesterlund's website on Iowa State University". 26 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Experimental Economics". Springer. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  6. ↑ "Lise Vesterlund Brodkey". NHH. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  7. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Lise Vesterlund" (PDF). Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  8. 1 2 Andreoni, James; Vesterlund, Lise (2001-02-01). "Which is the Fair Sex? Gender Differences in Altruism" . The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 116 (1): 293–312. doi:10.1162/003355301556419. ISSN   0033-5533.
  9. 1 2 3 Niederle, Muriel; Vesterlund, Lise (2007-08-01). "Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?" . The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 122 (3): 1067–1101. doi:10.1162/qjec.122.3.1067. ISSN   0033-5533.
  10. 1 2 Andreoni, James; Harbaugh, William; Vesterlund, Lise (June 2003). "The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation". American Economic Review. 93 (3): 893–902. doi:10.1257/000282803322157142. ISSN   0002-8282.
  11. 1 2 "Lise Vesterlund - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  12. ↑ Lockman, Darcy (2019-05-04). "Opinion | What 'Good' Dads Get Away With". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  13. ↑ GuoBioBio, Jeff Guo closeJeff. "Why do some studies show that women are less competitive than men?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  14. ↑ Khazan, Olga (2017-01-06). "When It's Not Worth It to Negotiate". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  15. ↑ "Can 10 Million Women Negotiate the Pay Gap Away?". Bloomberg.com. 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  16. ↑ Gandel, Stephen (2010-11-30). "Are Women Less Competitive than Men? Explaining the Gender Gap". Time. ISSN   0040-781X . Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  17. ↑ Connley, Courtney (2018-08-27). "Report: Women should stop volunteering for 'non-promotable' tasks at work". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
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