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News | December 14, 2015

Pierson Medal awarded to TI Fellow Jan Stoop

TI fellow Jan Stoop received the prestigious Pierson Medal awarded by the Stichting Mr. N.G. Pierson Fonds at the annual meeting of the KVS, the Royal Dutch association for economists, on December 11th. The Pierson award comes with a cash prize of € 5,000.

Jan Stoop’s main research is concerned with the measurement of social preferences of humans, by conducting lab experiments and field experiments, in a ‘natural environment’. The jury of the Pierson Medal was particularly impressed by the fact that Jan Stoop collects his own data, for instance among fishermen in the Dutch village Biest-Houthakker, and applies these data in both a field experiment and a laboratory experiment in an innovative and energetically way. Jan Stoop published in the absolute top journals in economics: this year in the American Economic Review with Charles Noussair, and Daan van Soest on: “Cooperation in a Dynamic Fishing Game: A Framed Field Experiment” and, with the same coauthors in the Journal of Political Economy (2012) on “From the lab to the field: Cooperation among fishermen.”
 

Jan Stoop is a behavioral economist and an assistant professor at the department of applied economics of the Erasmus School of Economics (EUR). His research interests include behavioral economics, experimental economics and field experiments. In 2013, the Erasmus University Rotterdam awarded him an EUR Fellowship (€ 135.000), for talented researchers. In 2014, Jan was awarded a Veni grant (€ 250.000) by NWO for his research on the relationship between human behaviour tested in laboratory experiments and in field experiments. NWO awards Veni grants to outstanding academics who obtained their PhD in the past three years and display a striking talent for scientific research.

About the Pierson Medal

The Pierson Medal is a triennial incentive award for a young and upcoming researcher in the fields of economics and finance and who is employed by a Dutch university. In previous years, the medal was awarded to TI fellow and alumnus Albert Menkveld of VU University Amsterdam (2007), Thomas Dohmen of Maastricht University (2009) and TI alumnus Stefan Trautmann of Tilburg University (2012).