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'''Matthew Joel Rabin''' (born December 27, 1963) is the Pershing Square Professor of [[Behavioral economics|Behavioral Economics]] in the Harvard Economics Department and [[Harvard Business School]]. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory. His topics of interest include errors in statistical reasoning and the evolution of beliefs, effects of choice context on exhibited preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and errors people make in inference in market and learning settings.<ref name=harvard>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin - Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics|url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/rabin/home|publisher=Harvard University|accessdateaccess-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Pershing Square Foundation awards $17M to Harvard|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/04/the-pershing-square-foundation-awards-17m-to-harvard/|publisher=Harvard Gazette|date=April 14, 2014|accessdateaccess-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref>

Rabin was the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Economics Department for 25 years before moving to Harvard.<ref name=harvard/><ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin|url=http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/843|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506074143/http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/843|archivedatearchive-date=May 6, 2012}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Economics]] and [[Mathematics]] from [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1984 and [[Ph.D.PhD]] in [[Economics]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 1989.<ref name=rabin>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin|url=http://eml.berkeley.edu/~rabin/webcv.html|publisher=University of Berkeley|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028035132/http://eml.berkeley.edu/~rabin/webcv.html|archivedatearchive-date=2014-10-28|df=}}</ref> Before entering MIT, he was a research student at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name=harvard/> He is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and co-organizer of the Russell Sage Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics.<ref name=rabin/> Rabin has also been a visiting professor at M.I.T., London School of Economics, Northwestern, Harvard, and Caltech, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Russell Sage Foundation.<ref name=harvard/><ref name=rabin/>

His research is directed, among other economic fields, towards [[behavioral finance]] and [[behavioral economics]]. Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning. He developed [[Rabin fairness]] as a model to account for fairness in social preferences. In 2001 he was awarded the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] by the [[American Economic Association]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin John Bates Clark Medalist 2001|url=http://www.aeaweb.org/PDF_files/Bios/Rabin_Bio_2001.pdf|publisher=AEA|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512131140/http://www.aeaweb.org/PDF_files/Bios/Rabin_Bio_2001.pdf|archivedatearchive-date=2013-05-12|df=}}</ref> and also the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship]].<ref name=rabin/> In 2006 he was awarded the [[John von Neumann Award]] by the [[Rajk László College for Advanced Studies]].<ref name=rabin/>

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