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Uri Hezkia Gneezy

Uri Gneezy is an Israeli-American behavioral economist at the University of California, San Diego, known for his research on incentives.

born 1967Research on incentivesThe daycare late-fine experimentThe book The Why Axis

Born: 6 June 1967, Tel Aviv
Occupation: economist, university teacher
Education: Tel Aviv University, Tilburg University

Uri Hezkia Gneezy was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv

Uri Hezkia Gneezy was born in Tel Aviv on June 6, 1967. He lives in San Diego with his wife Ayelet and their three children, and divides his working time between San Diego, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam.

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics with honors at Tel Aviv University. He then completed a master's degree and a PhD in economics in 1997 at the Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Gneezy taught at the University of Chicago, the Technion and the University of Haifa. He later joined the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds the Epstein/Atkinson Chair in Behavioral Economics. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and at NHH in Bergen.

His research uses lab and field experiments to study how people respond to incentives, deception, discrimination and gender differences in competition. In a study with Aldo Rustichini, a fine for parents who were late at Israeli daycare centers led to more late pick-ups. He wrote The Why Axis with John A. List and later Mixed Signals, published in 2023, and co-founded Gneezy Consulting.