Benjamin Beranek
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Missouri State University and an External Fellow in the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx).
In my research, I use the tools of experimental economics to test, measure, and investigate elements of behavioral economic theory about individual social preferences.
I often address one of the criticisms of experimental economics—that the findings have limited generalizability because the subjects who participate in these experiments are commonly students from North American or European universities—by including subjects from culturally different societies and beyond the university.
My research interests include social preferences, inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, honesty, social norms, and social distance.