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American economist
Katherine L. Milkman is an American economist who is the
James G. Dinan endowed Professor at The Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania .
[1] She is the President of the
Society for Judgment and Decision Making .
[2]
Early life and education
Milkman originally considered working on
Wall Street , and spent her college holidays interning at investment banks.
[3] She was an undergraduate student at
Princeton University , where she specialised in
Operations Research and
American studies .
[4]
[5] She moved to
Harvard University for her graduate studies and completed a doctorate in information and technology in 2009.
[6]
Research and career
Milkman moved to the
University of Pennsylvania , where she was made Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions in 2018. She studies how economics and psychology can be used to change behaviour, including opinions on exercise, vaccine take-up and discrimination.
[4]
[7] Milkman makes use of big data to document this behavioural change in an effort to understand what results in failures of self-control.
[8]
During the
COVID-19 pandemic , Milkman investigated the transmission of
coronavirus disease , claiming that it relied on social habits that can be changed.
[5] She used her understanding of
vaccine hesitancy to encourage people to accept the
COVID-19 vaccine .
[9]
[10] She argued that getting people to wear masks would have been easier if people had considered them as fashion items as opposed to a burden.
[11]
Awards and honors
2015 Associations in Behavioural & Brain Sciences Early Career Award from the Federation
[8]
2017 Finalist for Thinkers50
[12]
2019 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Robert B. Cialdini Prize
[13]
2019 Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
[14]
2020
Forbes 10 Behavioural Scientists You Should Know
[15]
Selected publications
Berger, Jonah; Milkman, Katherine L. (April 1, 2012).
"What Makes Online Content Viral?" . Journal of Marketing Research . 49 (2): 192–205.
doi :
10.1509/jmr.10.0353 .
ISSN
0022-2437 .
S2CID
29504532 .
Milkman, Katherine L.; Chugh, Dolly; Bazerman, Max H. (July 1, 2009).
"How Can Decision Making Be Improved?" . Perspectives on Psychological Science . 4 (4): 379–383.
doi :
10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01142.x .
ISSN
1745-6916 .
PMID
26158985 .
S2CID
643793 .
Benartzi, Shlomo; Beshears, John; Milkman, Katherine L.; Sunstein, Cass R.; Thaler, Richard H.; Shankar, Maya; Tucker-Ray, Will; Congdon, William J.; Galing, Steven (August 1, 2017).
"Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?" . Psychological Science . 28 (8): 1041–1055.
doi :
10.1177/0956797617702501 .
ISSN
0956-7976 .
PMC
5549818 .
PMID
28581899 .
Bibliography
References
^ Ross, Meghan (May 7, 2021).
"Q&A with Dr. Katy Milkman, Author of New Book 'How to Change' " . Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics . Retrieved October 21, 2021 .
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"Speaking with Katy Milkman about "How to Change" - By Elizabeth Weingarten" . Behavioral Scientist . May 17, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021 .
^ Akker, Merle van den (October 19, 2020).
"Interview with Katherine Milkman" . Money on the Mind . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"A Moment with Penn's Katy Milkman: on Massive Field Experiments and Crossing Interdisciplinary Lines" . Pattern Health . October 6, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Behavior Scientist Katy Milkman '04 On Small Ways to Keep COVID at Bay" . Princeton Alumni Weekly . June 4, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
^ Milkman, Katherine L (2009).
Studies of intrapersonal conflict and its implications (Thesis).
OCLC
472718737 .
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"WEBINAR: Behavior Change for Good" . Wharton Club of Chicago . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Katherine Milkman | Behavioral Science & Policy Association" . behavioralpolicy.org . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Katy Milkman on how to nudge people to accept a covid-19 vaccine" . The Economist . November 30, 2020.
ISSN
0013-0613 . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"First, the challenge was developing a vaccine. Now, it's getting people to take it" . KMGH . December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"What Can the Pandemic Teach Us About Mental Health?" . Discover Magazine . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Up and Comers" . Thinkers50 . October 23, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Announcing the Winners of the SPSP Cialdini Prize, Wegner Prize, Diener Award in Personality Psychology & Diener Award in Social Psychology | SPSP" . www.spsp.org . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
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"Katherine L. Milkman, PhD" . LDI . October 17, 2014. Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
^ Holzwarth, Aline.
"10 Behavioral Scientists You Should Know" . Forbes . Retrieved December 24, 2020 .
External links
International National Academics