Leeat Yariv


Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow of CEPR, and a Research Associate of NBER. She is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences. Yariv is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at UCLA and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton in 2017. She has served on various journal editorial boards, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, and Quantitative Economics.
Yariv’s research focuses on political economy, market design, social and economic networks, and experimental economics.
Yariv was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Education

Yariv received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.Sc. in Physics from Tel Aviv University in 1992. She received an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2001.