B. Douglas Bernheim (born 1958) is an Americaneconomics professor, and currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics atStanford University; his previous academic appointments have included an endowed chair in Economics and Business Policy atPrinceton University and an endowed chair in Insurance and Risk Management atNorthwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Department of Finance.^[2] He has published articles in academic journals, and has received a number of awards recognizing his contributions to the field ofeconomics. He is a partner with Bates White, an economic consulting firm with offices inWashington, D.C., andSan Diego.

Bernheim was born in 1958. From 1975 to 1979, he studied atHarvard University, where he received aBachelor of Arts (AB), summa cum laude. In 1982, he received his PhD in economics from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.^[3]

From 1982 to 1987, he was an assistant professor and in 1987 and 1988 an associate professor atStanford University. Bernheim moved toNorthwestern University to serve as the Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management (1988–1990) and later moved to Princeton University (1990–1994) to serve as the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy. Since 1994 he has worked again at Stanford University: From 1994 to 2005 as the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor and since 2005 as the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics. Since 1986, he has also conducted research for theNational Bureau of Economic Research.

Bernheim works in the fields of finance, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, andmicroeconomics.^[4][5] His sister isRobin Bernheim, the noted writer/producer of many TV shows, includingRemington Steele,Quantum Leap,Star Trek: Voyager, andWhen Calls the Heart.

• 1978Phi Beta Kappa
• 1979 John H. Williams Prize (for best graduate in economics)
• 1991 Elected Fellow, Econometric Society
• 1997 Elected Fellow,American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2001–2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• 2001–2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

• Bernheim, Douglas; Rangel, Antonio (2008)."Behavioural public economics".The New Palgrave Journal of Economics (2). London:1–6.doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0119.ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5.
• Bernheim, Douglas (2010)."Behavioral Welfare Economics".Panoeconomicus.57 (1):123–151.doi:10.2298/PAN1002123B.
• The Vanishing Nest Egg. Reflections on Saving in America. Twentieth Century Fund/Priority Press, New York 1991,ISBN 0-87078-313-0
• John B. Shoven; B. Douglas Bernheim (15 February 2009).National Saving and Economic Performance.University of Chicago Press.ISBN 978-0-226-04435-4.

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