Hi! Welcome — I'm Dustin Fichmann, a Predoctoral Research Fellow with Matthew Rabin in Harvard's Department of Economics. My interests lie in behavioral economics and political economy, especially belief updating, algorithm neglect, and polarization.

I completed an M.A. in Economics at Columbia and a B.A. in Mathematics & Economics at Bates (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa). I studied as a visiting student at the University of Oxford. During my M.A., I worked as an RA for Brendan O’Flaherty, where I used causal forests to estimate racial disparities in police killings of civilians. I later did a one-year predoc at HBS with Thomas Graeber, where I worked with Chris Roth, Marco Sammon, and Benjamin Enke on designing behavioral experiments.

Outside of research I love free diving for lobsters, skiing, mountainbiking, and coffee.   [CV]