Charles Sprenger - CERP

Charles Sprenger

Research Fellow

Charles Sprenger is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Dr Charles is a behavioural and experimental economist. His interests focus on the fields of Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics. His research includes local and global investigation into subjects such as inter-temporal choice behavior, economic risk preferences, and the relationship of time preferences to certain economic behaviors. His research focus is intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty. He designs experiments to test how people behave when faced with various decisions, ranging from food choices to the implementation of vaccination programs and more. His experiments have shown that the standard economic models of behavior are not consistent with how people act in real-life settings, and these findings suggest the need for new public policy strategies. He currently serves on the editorial board for the American Economic Review, and he is an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association and Quantitative Economics. Dr Charles joined the Caltech faculty in 2020 and received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016. He served on the economics faculties at UC San Diego (2015–20) and at Stanford (2011–14). He earned his PhD in Economics from UC San Diego in 2011. He received his master’s degree from University College London in 2005 and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 2002.

Charles Sprenger

Research Fellow

Charles Sprenger is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Dr Charles is a behavioural and experimental economist. His interests focus on the fields of Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics. His research includes local and global investigation into subjects such as inter-temporal choice behavior, economic risk preferences, and the relationship of time preferences to certain economic behaviors. His research focus is intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty. He designs experiments to test how people behave when faced with various decisions, ranging from food choices to the implementation of vaccination programs and more. His experiments have shown that the standard economic models of behavior are not consistent with how people act in real-life settings, and these findings suggest the need for new public policy strategies. He currently serves on the editorial board for the American Economic Review, and he is an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association and Quantitative Economics. Dr Charles joined the Caltech faculty in 2020 and received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016. He served on the economics faculties at UC San Diego (2015–20) and at Stanford (2011–14). He earned his PhD in Economics from UC San Diego in 2011. He received his master’s degree from University College London in 2005 and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 2002.

Charles Sprenger

Research Fellow

Charles Sprenger is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Dr Charles is a behavioural and experimental economist. His interests focus on the fields of Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics. His research includes local and global investigation into subjects such as inter-temporal choice behavior, economic risk preferences, and the relationship of time preferences to certain economic behaviors. His research focus is intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty. He designs experiments to test how people behave when faced with various decisions, ranging from food choices to the implementation of vaccination programs and more. His experiments have shown that the standard economic models of behavior are not consistent with how people act in real-life settings, and these findings suggest the need for new public policy strategies. He currently serves on the editorial board for the American Economic Review, and he is an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association and Quantitative Economics. Dr Charles joined the Caltech faculty in 2020 and received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016. He served on the economics faculties at UC San Diego (2015–20) and at Stanford (2011–14). He earned his PhD in Economics from UC San Diego in 2011. He received his master’s degree from University College London in 2005 and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 2002.