Jakina Debnam Guzman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Amherst College
Highlights
I'm a behavioral/experimental economist interested in how social factors and social identities matter for economics. So far, this has involved questions concerning health and human capital.
Since 2018, I have been an Assistant Professor at Amherst College. One of my favorite things to do there is to advise student economics experiments.
Ethnic fragmentation made COVID worse. (AEA Papers and Proceedings; with Roland Pongou and Marie Christelle Mabeu).
Happiness is not utility. What do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence (JEEA; with Dan Benjamin, Marc Fleurbaey, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball).
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Contact:
304B Converse Hall
100 Boltwood Avenue
Aherst, MA 01002
jguzman[at] amherst.edu