Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government, Harvard University. He is the founding Director of the Sustainability, Transparency, Accountability Research (STAR) Lab and a faculty member of the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. He is also a faculty associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. While on leave from Harvard between 2015 and 2017, Professor Hiscox was the founding Director of the Behavioural Economics Team (BETA) in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australian Government. He continues to serve as an adviser to BETA. His current research focuses on applications of behavioral economics to the design of public policies and private sector sustainability initiatives addressing social and environmental issues.
Contact
617/495-2605
hiscox@fas.harvard.edu
My Website
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Subfields
International Relations
Academic Interests
Climate Change | Data Science and Political Methodology | Education Policy | Environmental policy | Ethics | Foreign Policy | Health Policy and Bioethics | International Organizations | Migration | Non-Governmental Organizations | Political Economy & Development | Political Psychology | Public Opinion | Public Policy | Social Policy & the Welfare State
Research Methods
Experiments | Formal Theory | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Africa | Asia | Europe | United States