Ted O’Donoghue is the Zubrow Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. His research is primarily in the field of behavioral economics, a subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and decision research into economics. Much of his research focuses on the domains of intertemporal choice and risky choice, and he has a strong interest in using behavioral economics to better understand economic field behaviors.

O’Donoghue joined Cornell in 1997. He served as Senior Associate Dean for Social Science in the College of Arts & Sciences from 2015-2018, and he also served as Co-Chair of the Provost’s Review of the Social Sciences at Cornell from 2016-2018. From 2009-2012, he was team leader for a Cornell Institute for Social Sciences theme project titled “Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior.”

In 2009, O’Donoghue co-founded the Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting (BEAM) along with Nicholas Barberis (Yale) and Ulrike Malmendier (U.C. Berkeley). Our goal was to set up an annual conference where researchers in behavioral economics could gather to present and discuss their latest ideas. The event takes place in May and its location cycles between U.C. Berkeley, Cornell, and Yale. Every year, the event attracts about 100 of the most active researchers in the field.

O’Donoghue holds degrees from Dartmouth (A.B. in Economics modified with Psychology, 1990) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. in Economics, 1996). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern for one year before joining the faculty at Cornell.

 

Ted O’Donoghue
Department of Economics
Cornell University
482 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

Email: edo1 [at] cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5108