Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2022: Stefanie Stantcheva

The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2022 was awarded to Professor Stefanie Stantcheva by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). Stefanie Stantcheva is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and founder of the Social Economics Lab.

More about Professor Stefanie Stantcheva

Professor Stantcheva studies the taxation of firms and individuals, as well as how people understand, perceive, and form their attitudes towards public policies. Her work has centered around the long-lasting effects of tax policy on innovation, education, and wealth.

Recently, she has studied how R&D policies can be improved to foster innovation, how income and corporate taxes have shaped innovation over the 20th century, and how student loans can be structured to improve access to education. She has also explored people’s attitudes towards taxation, health care, immigration policies, environmental policies, and social mobility using large-scale Social Economics Surveys and Experiments. Stantcheva is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2019 Best Young French Economist Prize, a Carnegie Fellowship, and the 2020 Elaine Bennett Research Prize in Economics.

Stantcheva received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2014 and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows 2014–2016 before joining the Harvard Department of Economics in July 2016. She is currently co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Lecture

Stefanie Stantcheva delivered the 14th CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Lecture on Social Economics Surveys and Experiments, on 24 March 2022.

Proceedings were livestreamed and a recording of the lecture may be found below.

We are very grateful for the sponsorship by Hannover Re.