Ido Erev was born in Afula, Israel, in 1959 and grew up in Kiryat Tivon. His parents, Bilha and Amiram were born in Moshav Kfar Yehezkel. The parents of his parents were born in the Russian Empire, and immigrated to Israel in the second and third Aliyah. After a year of service in the Israeli youth group Noar HaOved in Sderot in 1978 he enlisted in the IDF. In 1982, he began studying at the University of Haifa and graduated with a B.A. in psychology and statistics. In 1986, he continued his studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the guidance of Prof. Amnon Rapoport and Prof. Tom Wolsten . In 1990 he completed his third degree in quantitative psychology, and received a position of lecturer from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and management at the Technion. In 1996, he released a post-doctoral work under the guidance of Prof. Alvin Roth at the University of Pittsburgh. He also served as a Michael Gould visiting professor at Columbia University, "Marvin Bauer" Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a research fellow at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor at the University of Warwick, and visiting professor at Erasmus University and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Since 2004, he has served as a full professor at the Technion and as of 2006 has been a member of the Technion Women's chair in the United States. At the Technion, he also served as head of the behavioral science area, as the dean in charge of an MBA start-up program, head of the Minerva Center for the Study of cognitive processes, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for the empirical research of decision-making and trial. From 2019, Prof. Erev is the president of the European Society for decision Making. Prof. Erev's research focuses on clarifying the influence of economic variables on human behavior. He has published more than 100 articles in this field, and has discounted dozens of master and doctoral works. His student list includes: Prof. Yoalla Barbie-Mayer, Prof. Racheli Barkan, Dr. Amos Shor, Prof. Eyal Art, Prof. Eldad Yechiam, Dr. Kinneret, Dr. Uri Plonski, Dr. Tali Reich , Dr. Sharon Gilat Yihya, Dr. Guy Hochman, Dr. Adi Luria. Married to Dr. Vered Erev-enjoys, psychologist and a cognitive trainer, father of two, and brother of two.
Academic Contribution
Erev is widely regarded for his contributions to learning in behavioral economics and experimental economics. His work with Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth has started a branch of behavioral economics focused on human learning in games and individual choice tasks. He is also widely regarded for his distinction between decision from experience and decisions from description Another line of research involves practical implications. and law enforcement.
