Advanced Consumer Policy
Examines how deviations from rational economic behavior affect consumer well-being and analyzes the impact of policy design across various domains.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Describe some of the ways in which individuals make decisions and exhibit behavior that systematically deviates from the predictions of traditional economic models of rational actors
Compare and contrast traditional policy tools and levers with interventions informed by behavioral economics and assess their relative efficacy in addressing a potential policy problem
Critically evaluate and discuss policy solutions in recent empirical policy-focused consumer research, including being able to assess the extent to which given solutions may or may not extrapolate to other domains and populations
Identify policy issues and generate potential solutions that apply insights from behavioral economics to policy design, drawing on both existing research and behavioral economic theories
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).
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Topics
- Intersection of behavioral economics and public policy.
- Deviations from rational economic behavior and consumer well-being.
- Impact of policy design on consumer well-being.
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- Assess the relative efficacy of traditional policy tools versus behavioral economics-informed interventions.
- Generate policy solutions applying behavioral economics insights to policy design.
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