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Matthew Brown

I am completing my PhD in Economics at Stanford University with work in public economics and behavioral economics. My committee is Matthew Gentzkow (gentzkow@stanford.edu), Hunt Allcott (allcott@stanford.edu), and Doug Bernheim (bernheim@stanford.edu).

In Fall 2025, I will join the the University of Chicago as an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Economics.

In my research, I study how to design public policy in applied settings where behavioral errors are relevant. To do this, I combine models from public economics with empirical methods from behavioral economics.

CV Email: mbrown35@stanford.edu


Working papers

Do Sports Bettors Need Consumer Protection? Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Nick Grasley and Mariana Guido)
Job market paper
Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, Wall Street Journal

Slides

The Role of Ideology in Media Coverage of Science (with Harsh Gupta) Last updated: July 2023


Work in Progress

Nonmarket Valuation with Imperfect Perception

Do People Undervalue Mental Health Treatment? Evidence from Gambling Addiction Therapy (with Sarah Bogl, Nick Grasley, and Mariana Guido)


Teaching

I have TAed for three undergraduate courses at Stanford: Principles of Economics, Behavioral Economics (three semesters), and Empirical Environmental Economics (two semesters). I received Stanford's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award four times for my instruction in the latter two classes.

Below, I provide for public use some teaching materials that I developed for those classes.