Economist, Researcher, Innovator in Cognitive Economics
Andrew Caplin, Silver Professor of Economics at NYU, leads the Sloan Foundation Program on Cognitive Economics at Work.
Research
Research and ideas shaping lower-payment homeownership
Real Estate and Housing Finance
The proposal to combine debt and equity financing was detailed in a 1995 paper and expanded in our 1997 book, Housing Partnerships.
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Cognitive Economic Modeling and Rational Inattention Theory
This research connects cognition, attention, and economic choice, modeling how decision-makers allocate scarce mental resources under uncertainty.
Human-AI Interactions
This paper studies how people work with artificial intelligence, with attention to judgment, delegation, and the design of better decision environments.
Life-Cycle Savings and Strategic Survey Questions
This work uses strategically designed survey questions to study saving behavior, expectations, and household financial decisions over the life cycle.
Psychology, Anxiety, and Prediction Errors
This research examines anxiety through the lens of belief formation, uncertainty, and the prediction errors that shape expectations.
Job Transitions and Career Dynamics
This paper studies how workers move through jobs and careers, connecting labor-market transitions to search, learning, and long-run outcomes.
Cognitive Data Engineering
This work frames data design around cognition itself, building instruments that make attention, reasoning, and decision processes observable.