Directors
Isabelle Brocas
Professor of Economics
My research revisits standard theories of decision-making and aims at better understanding how people make choices, what motivates them and what cognitive limitations prevent them from making rational choices.
Email: brocas@usc.edu
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Juan D. Carrillo
Professor of Economics
My areas of specialization are Neuroeconomic Theory, Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics. I am particularly interested in studying how choices change from childhood to adulthood
Email: juandc@usc.edu
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Project Specialists & Predocs
Ulysses Rios
Ulysses received his BA in Economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 2022. He has worked at LABEL since 2023, assisting with projects on social choice theory and networks.
Postdocs
Monica Vasco
Monica obtained her PhD in Data Science and Experimental Economics at Loyola Andalucía University, Córdoba, Spain. Since 2021, Monica has worked as a research assistant at LoyolaBehLab and serves as the data manager for their TeensLab. Her research focuses on risk tasks, social networks, and decision-making.
Visitors
Joyce Cao (Harvard )
Research Associates
Prianca Nadkarni (Johns Hopkins University)
Xidi Zhang (PhD University of Notre Dame, Economics)
USC Students
Virat Agrawal (PhD, Public Policy)
Samantha Betts (PhD, Neuroscience Graduate Program)
Fiona Chen (BA, Economics and Data Sciences)
Juan Gonzalez (PhD, Economics)
Haoran He (MA, Economics)
Shaunak Narain (BA, Behavioral Economics)
Karthik Srinivasan (BA, Economics & Psychology)
Jiahui Xie (MA, Economics)
Xuemeng Yin (MA, Economics)
Kan Zeng (MA, Economics)
Siyuan Zhou (MA, Economics)
Students enrolled in the Training Program
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