Leeat Yariv

Yariv received a B.Sc. in mathematics and a B.Sc. in physics from Tel Aviv University in 1992. In 1995, she received an M.Sc. in pure mathematics from Tel Aviv University. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2001. ==Academic appointments==

From 2001 to 2002, Yariv was appointed as a visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in their Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation. Later, from 2004 to 2005, she continued as a visiting assistant professor at Caltech in their Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. After, she spent the fall of 2008 as a visiting scholar in New York University's Department of Economics. In 2014, she was appointed as director of Caltech's Social Science Laboratory (SSEL) until 2017. From 2015 to 2016 returned to Yale University where she was a visiting professor in the Cowles Foundation. From fall of 2016 to 2017, she started her career at Princeton University as a visiting professor in their Department of Economics. In 2018, she continued her career at Princeton University as director for the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL) where she works presently. ==Publications==

Yariv has co-authored numerous articles in journals such as The American Economic Review, Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and Econometrica. Written jointly with Allesandro Lizzeri, her paper "Collective Self Control" received the American Economic Journal's Best Paper Award for Microeconomics in 2018. She also wrote a chapter, "The Interplay Between Theory and Experiments," in the Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, as well as co-authored chapters in Online and Matching-Based Market Design and the Handbook of Social Economics. ==References==