Muriel Niederle


Muriel Niederle is a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Niederle teaches courses at Stanford University focusing specifically on experimental economics and market design. Muriel Niederle is interested in studying behavioral and experimental economics. Niederle's most recent publication was "Probabilistic States versus Multiple Certainties: The Obstacle of Uncertainty in Contingent Reasoning" in November 2017. She was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2017.

Career

Niederle earned her doctorate in Economics at Harvard University in 2002 and after graduating became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007 and full Professor in 2012. Niederle is an NBER Research Associate and the organizer of the annual SITE conference on Experimental Economics at Stanford.
Niederle maintains a on behavioral and experimental economics, and gender.

Research

Some of Niederle's most-cited work examines gender competitive norms, such as in "Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much?" with Lise Vesterlund, and "Performance in competitive environments: Gender differences" with Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini.

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