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Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research leverages insights from behavioral economics and experimental methods to study how people make choices under risk, how context shapes those choices, and what these insights mean for policy. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2020, and previously worked as an Economist at the New York Federal Reserve.
Income Inequality

What MBA Students Reveal About Inequality in America

Marcel Preuss
In new research, Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, and Joy Wu find that MBA students’ attitudes toward inequality and fairness vary from those of the average American. As these students will one day form the business and political elite of the United States, the findings have implications for the future of inequality in the U.S.

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