David Zuckerman
Assistant Professor
Professor Zuckerman was born in Canada, grew up on the East Coast, and spent almost 10 years in California before joining Central Washington University as an assistant professor of economics in Fall 2022. He loves being outdoors: hiking, trail running, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, and floating down the Yakima.
- ECON 201: Principles of Economics Micro
- ECON 333: Behavioral Economics
- ECON 352: Managerial Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Microeconomic Theory
Professor Zuckerman's interests lie in Behavioral and Experimental Economics. He is particularly interested in how concerns about justice shape third-party decisions regarding victim compensation and offender punishment after transgressions. For example, in deciding how to punish the offender, how are we influenced by the victim's preference, or by the victim and offender's past histories? Similarly, when compensating the victim, does it matter whether the offender has been caught and punished?
He is also interested in how individuals engage in motivated reason to justify procrastination tendencies. He especially likes projects that draw on intuitive ideas and concepts from the psychology literature, formalize them into models, and cleanly test their predictions with controlled experiments.
(He also has work on using machine learning algorithms to guide library decisions about which materials to keep on-campus or store off-site.)
Prof. Zuckerman has been published in-
- Multidimensional homophily https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268123004596
- A Theory of Chosen Preferences, joint with B. Douglas Bernheim, Luca Braghieri, and Alejandro Martínez-Marquina https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190390
Contact
Shaw-Smyser Hall 236