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Shaun Hargreaves Heap
Professor of Political Economy, King’s College London
Shaun Hargreaves Heap is a Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London.
Previously, he was a Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia.
Hargreaves Heap’s current research uses experiments to identify how social and institutional influences shape individual decision-making. He has also done research in macroeconomics, political economy, and the economics of the media.
He has taught courses on experimental economics, behavioral economics, and macroeconomics.
Teaching: Macroeconomics; Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics.
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley · BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, University of Oxford
- Topics
- Experimental Economics · Behavioral Economics · Game Theory · The Political Influence of Peer Groups · The Effects of Social Groups on Welfare · The Effects of Inclusive Governance on Organizational Performance · Economic Methodology
Talks & video4
- What is Experimental Economics? | Shaun Hargreaves HeapVimeo
- How Does Inclusive Governance Affect Organizational Performance? | Shaun Hargreaves HeapVimeo
- How Do Peer Groups Influence Political Affiliation and Political Engagement? | Shaun Hargreaves HeapVimeo
- Are There Welfare Effects From Social Groups? | Shaun Hargreaves HeapVimeo
Selected publications9
- 2020‘Vote and Voice: An experiment on the effects of inclusive governance rules’ (with K. Tsutsui and D. Zizzo). Social Choice and Welfare 2020 54(1), 111-139.
- 2018‘Preference conformism: an experiment’ (with E. Fatas and D. Rojo Arjona), European Economic Review, 2018, 105, 71-82.
- 2017‘Social information ‘nudges’: an experiment with multiple group references’ (with A.Ramalingam and D. Rojo-Arjona), Southern Economic Journal , 2017, 84(1), 348-365
- 2017‘Co-ordination when there are restricted and unrestricted options’ (with R. Sugden and D. Rojo-Ajona), Theory and Decision, 2017, 83(1), 107-129.
- 2017'The Political Influence of Peer Groups: Experimental Evidence in the Classroom’ (with C. Campos and F. Lopez de Leon), Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69(4), 963-985.
- 2016‘Endowment inequality in public goods games: a re-examination’ (with A. Ramaligan and B. Stoddard’, Economic Letters, 2016, 146 (September), 4-7.
- 2014‘How portable is level-0 behavior? A test of Level-k theory in games with non-neutral frames’, (with D. Rojo-Arjona and R. Sugden), Econometrica, 2014, 82(3), 1133-1151.
- 2009‘The value of groups’ (with D. Zizzo), American Economic Review, 99, March 2009, 295-323.
- 2002‘Some experimental evidence on the evolution of discrimination, co-operation and the perception of fairness’ (with Y. Varoufakis), Economic Journal, July 2002, p.679-703.
Positions & affiliations2
- King’s College London
- University of East Anglia