Roland Bénabou joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1999 and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs.

Bénabou’s research spans both macroeconomic and microeconomic areas, such as the interplay of inflation and imperfect competition, or speculation and manipulation in financial markets. His recent work lies in three main areas. The first links inequality, growth, social mobility and the political economy of redistribution. The second centers on education, social interactions and the socioeconomic structure of cities. The third is that of economics and psychology ("behavioral economics"). It focuses in particular on extrinsic incentives versus intrinsic motivation, on the determinants of prosocial behavior and on motivated beliefs, both individual (overconfidence, wishful thinking, identity) and collective (groupthink, market manias, ideology, religion).

Bénabou is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, corresponding member of the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor, Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was a coeditor of the American Economic Review from 2014 to 2020 and has served on the editorial board of numerous other journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Econcomic Growth and the Journal of the European Economic Association. In 2021 he was awarded the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize by the Toulouse School of Economics. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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