ROBERT ÖSTLING present: Assistant Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.

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1 Institute for International Economic Studies Stockholm University SE Stockholm Phone: +46 (0) Mobile: +46 (0) Home page: CURRENT POSITION 2008 present: Assistant Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. EDUCATION : Ph.D. in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics. Thesis title: Bounded Rationality and Endogenous Preferences. Advisor: Tore Ellingsen. 2006: Visiting Student Researcher, California Institute of Technology : M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics : Courses in Philosophy and Literature, Stockholm and Lund University. WORK IN PROGRESS The Effect of Wealth on Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries (coauthors David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist and Matthew J. Notowidigdo) Windfall Gains and Stock Market Participation (co-authors Joseph Briggs, David Cesarini and Erik Lindqvist) How Does Communication Affect Beliefs? (co-authors Tore Ellingsen and Erik Wengström) Learning by Imitation in Theory, Field and Lab (co-authors Erik Mohlin and Joseph Tao-yi Wang) Generosity and Political Preferences (co-authors Christopher T. Dawes, Magnus Johannesson, Erik Lindqvist, Peter Loewen, Marianne Bonde and Frida Priks) 1(5)

2 PUBLICATIONS Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players (co-authors David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist and Björn Wallace). Forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics. Lowest Unique Bid Auctions with Population Uncertainty (co-authors Erik Mohlin and Joseph Tao-yi Wang). Economics Letters , Identity and Redistribution (co-author Erik Lindqvist), Public Choice 155(3 4) , Testing Game Theory in the Field: Swedish LUPI Lottery Games (co-authors Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Eileen Chou and Colin F. Camerer), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3(3) 1 33 (lead article), Strategic Risk and Coordination Failure in Blame Games (co-author Tore Ellingsen), Economics Letters 110(2) 90 92, Political Polarization and the Size of Government (co-author Erik Lindqvist), American Political Science Review 104(3) , The Effect of Competition on Physical Activity: A Randomized Trial (co-authors Magnus Johannesson and Eva Ranehill), B.E. Journal of Economic Policy and Analysis (Topics) 10(1) article 91, When Does Communication Improve Coordination? (co-author Tore Ellingsen), American Economic Review 100(4) , Economic Influences on Moral Values, B.E. Journal of Economic Policy and Analysis (Advances) 9(1) article 2, Bounded Rationality and Endogenous Preferences, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stockholm School of Economics, A Game Theoretic Model of the Northwestern European Electricity Market Market Power and the Environment (co-authors Wietze Lise, Vincent Linderhof, Onno Kuik, Claudia Kempfert and Thomas Heinzow), Energy Policy 34(15) , SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN SWEDISH 200+ blog posts about economics and policy at ekonomistas.se. Arbetsmarknadsreformer för jobb och välfärd (with Bertil Holmlund, Mårten Palme and Eva Mörk). Report written for the Social Democratic Party s unemployment research commission, Varför värna den personliga integriteten?. Book chapter in Dalunde (ed.), Integritet i en global värld, Fores+Ivrig förlag, (5)

3 Nationalekonomins grunder (with Erik Mohlin). Book chapter in Gerlach (ed.), Nationalekonomi för vänstern. Teori för jämlikhet och välfärd, Kata förlag, Paternalism. Book chapter in Gerlach (ed.), Nationalekonomi för vänstern. Teori för jämlikhet och välfärd, Kata förlag, Beteendeekonomi och konsumentpolitik. Report on consumer policy written for the Swedish Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality, Från nationalekonomi till ekonomik? (editorial with Martin Flodén), Ekonomisk Debatt (journal of the Swedish Economic Association) 37(3) 3 4, Homo Economicus (book review), Ekonomisk Debatt 34(5) 52 54, Den oekonomiska människan, Dagens Nyheter, January 18, Är nationalekonomin ideologisk?, Ekonomisk Debatt 33(2) 6 18, My reply to a comment was published in Ekonomisk Debatt 33(6) 58 59, Fett och beroende, Dagens Nyheter, May 3, TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012 present : Economic Strategic Thinking (undergraduate) 2009 present: Behavioral Economics (graduate) 2011: Economic Methodology (graduate) : Teaching assistant for Microeconomics I (graduate) GRANTS AND AWARDS 2009: The Arnberg Prize (100,000 SEK) awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2011: Principal investigator for research grant from Handelsbanken s Resarch Foundation ( Experiments in Strategic and Social Interaction, 1,050,000 SEK, ID: P ). 2011: Co-investigator for research grant from the Swedish Research Council ( A Novel Approach to Estimating the Effect of Wealth on Lifetime Outcomes, Behavior and Attitudes, 5,628,000 SEK, ID: B ). 2011: Co-investigator for research grant from Handelsbanken s Research Foundation ( A Novel Approach to Estimating the Effect of Wealth on Lifetime Outcomes, 3,052,000 SEK, ID: P :1). 2011: Co-investigator for research grant from FAS ( A Novel Approach to Estimating the Effect of Wealth on Lifetime Outcomes, 500,000 SEK, ID: ). 3(5)

4 CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 2015: Industrial Research Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Linnaeus University. 2014: University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of Göteborg, National Conference of Swedish Economists (Umeå) 2013: Lund University, Uppsala University, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet (Center for Health Equity Studies). 2012: Stockholm University (Swedish Institute for Social Research), University of Milano-Bicocca (CISEPS), LMU Munich. 2011: Workshop on Communication in Games (Zürich), NHH Bergen, Umeå University. 2010: Aarhus University, National Conference of Swedish Economists (Lund), 5th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Helsinki). 2009: 4th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Oslo). 2008: Stockholm University (IIES, job talk), London School of Economics (job talk), Carnegie Mellon University (job talk), Kellogg School of Management (job talk), Copenhagen University (job talk), Oslo University, SUDSWEc 2008 (Workshop for doctoral students in Stockholm and Uppsala), Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Helsinki University, 3rd Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Copenhagen). 2007: European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society 2007 (Brussels), 26th Arne Ryde Symposium 2007 on Communication and Games in Experiments (Lund), SUDSWEc 2007 (workshop for doctoral students in Stockholm and Uppsala), Uppsala University, Research Institute of Industrial Economics. 2006: First Nordic Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Oslo), 2006 Ratio Colloquium for Young Social Scientists (Stockholm). REFEREEING American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, E-Economics, Democratization, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, Palgrave Communications, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Networks. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Co-advisor for Mathias Ekström (finished 2013) and Manja Gärtner (expected to finish 2015). 4(5)

5 Discussant at final seminars (slutseminarium): Tobias Heinrich (2009, Stockholm University), Conny Wollbrant (2010, Göteborg University) and Patrik Gränsmark (2010, Stockholm University). Co-organizer of the 8 th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Stockholm, September Co-organizer of the departmental research seminar series. EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES 2015 present: Member of the Swedish Consumer Agency s Scientific Advisory Board present: Consultant for the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority present: Co-founder of, and regular contributor to, the blog Ekonomistas : Member of the Swedish Social Democrat s research commission on unemployment : Parental leave (approximately 14 months in total) during and PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: September 12, Citizenship: Swedish. Family status: Married with two children (born 2009 and 2012). Last updated: October 8, (5)