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Rajiv Sethi
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Economics
Rajiv Sethi, professor of economics, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1995. In addition to his teaching duties for the Barnard economics department, he is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia, and regularly teaches a graduate course in Columbia's economics department. He is a frequent visitor to the Santa Fe Institute.
Professor Sethi's teaching includes courses in microeconomic theory, financial economics, environmental economics, and the economics of inequality. His recent research deals with segregation in neighborhoods and social networks, stereotyping in economic interactions, disparities across groups in crime victimization and incarceration, and the transmission across generations of group inequality. He has also worked on the evolution of social norms and interdependent preferences, decision making under bounded rationality, and the dynamics of asset prices in financial markets.
Selected Publications
"Why Have Robberies Become Less Frequent but More Violent?" (with B. O'Flaherty), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (In press)
"Statistical Discrimination with Peer Effects: Can Integration Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" (with S. Chaudhuri), Review of Economic Studies (2008)
"Procedural Rationality and Equilibrium Trust" (with R. Rowthorn), Economic Journal (2008)
"Racial Stereotypes and Robbery" (with B. O'Flaherty), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2008)
"Crime and Segregation" (with B. O'Flaherty), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2007)
"Metacognitive Control and Optimal Learning" (with L. Son), Cognitive Science (2006)
"Learning Strategies" (with N. Hanaki, et al.), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2005)
"Inequality and Segregation" (with R. Somanathan), Journal of Political Economy (2004)
"Understanding Reciprocity" (with E. Somanathan), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2003)
"Evolutionary Stability in a Reputational Model of Bargaining" (with D. Abreu), Games and Economic Behavior (2003)
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EDUCATION:
B.S. in Mathematics, University of Southampton
Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Economic theory
Economics of crime
Economics of inequality