Erik Snowberg

Erik Snowberg is the Mariner S. Eccles Presidential Professor at the University of Utah, a Research Fellow of the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (CESifo), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Reearch (NBER). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University—Graduate School of Business and was a professor of Economics and Political Science at Caltech. Before moving to the University of Utah, he was the Canadian Excellence Research Chair and co-founder and Scientific Director of The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research at the University of British Columbia. Snowberg’s research is primarily about measurement, which he has applied in the study of experimental design, politics, prediction markets, pharmaceuticals, and development economics. Snowberg is currently a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review.