Shaun Hargreaves Heap
Biography
Shaun Hargreaves Heap is a Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London.
Previously, he was a Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia.
Hargreaves Heap’s current research uses experiments to identify how social and institutional influences shape individual decision-making. He has also done research in macroeconomics, political economy, and the economics of the media.
He has taught courses on experimental economics, behavioral economics, and macroeconomics.
Lectures & Interviews
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, University of Oxford
Institutions
King’s College London
University of East Anglia
Fields
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Economics
Game Theory
Topics
The Political Influence of Peer Groups
The Effects of Social Groups on Welfare
The Effects of Inclusive Governance on Organizational Performance
Economic Methodology
Selected Publications
‘Vote and Voice: An experiment on the effects of inclusive governance rules’ (with K. Tsutsui and D. Zizzo). Social Choice and Welfare 2020 54(1), 111-139.
‘Preference conformism: an experiment’ (with E. Fatas and D. Rojo Arjona), European Economic Review, 2018, 105, 71-82.
‘Social information ‘nudges’: an experiment with multiple group references’ (with A.Ramalingam and D. Rojo-Arjona), Southern Economic Journal , 2017, 84(1), 348-365
‘Co-ordination when there are restricted and unrestricted options’ (with R. Sugden and D. Rojo-Ajona), Theory and Decision, 2017, 83(1), 107-129.
'The Political Influence of Peer Groups: Experimental Evidence in the Classroom’ (with C. Campos and F. Lopez de Leon), Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69(4), 963-985.
‘Endowment inequality in public goods games: a re-examination’ (with A. Ramaligan and B. Stoddard’, Economic Letters, 2016, 146 (September), 4-7.
‘How portable is level-0 behavior? A test of Level-k theory in games with non-neutral frames’, (with D. Rojo-Arjona and R. Sugden), Econometrica, 2014, 82(3), 1133-1151.
‘The value of groups’ (with D. Zizzo), American Economic Review, 99, March 2009, 295-323.
‘Some experimental evidence on the evolution of discrimination, co-operation and the perception of fairness’ (with Y. Varoufakis), Economic Journal, July 2002, p.679-703.
Teaching
Macroeconomics
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics