Lanny Zrill Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant

September 18, 2018

Congratulations to Lanny Zrill, Economics Department Instructor, for successfully securing a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant! Lanny’s research will analytically and empirically investigate “attention”, such that it can be incorporated into the analyses of “choice”. The main goal of this project is to develop an experimental methodology for collecting richer data sets that can be used to identify and measure attention in more general economics settings than has been done previously. This is of practical interest for research where inferences related to choice in economic studies may be compromised by the inability to accurately measure attention or effort.

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