Steven N. Durlauf

Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics
7464 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 263-3859
sdurlauf@ssc.wisc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
Durlauf’s recent research focused on (1) the integration of social processes into formal models of individual behavior and the construction of statistical methods that facilitate the measurement of social effects on individuals, and (2) the development of a general methodology that integrates statistical studies of individual and group behavior into policy evaluation. Durlauf has attempted to elucidate both the theoretical properties of such models as well as to identify conditions under which these models may be employed to study individual-level and aggregate-level data.

Durlauf’s most recent work has focused on how statistical analyses ought to be done to inform policy evaluation. In a joint paper with Navarro, Durlauf considers the application of Bayesian Model Averaging to the effect of the death penalty on the level of criminal activity. An important feature of this line of research is that explicitly accounts for model uncertainty in the data analysis.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Data and Methodology