Social and behavioral scientists

Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is an American economist at the Wharton School known as a founder of modern pension research and the "Big Three" financial literacy questions.

Olivier Blanchard

Olivier Jean Blanchard, born in France in 1948, is a French macroeconomist at MIT who served as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015.

Olivier Coibion is an American and French macroeconomist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for survey and randomized-trial research on how households and firms form inflation expectations.

Olivier David Zerbib

Olivier David Zerbib (born 1983) is a French economist working on sustainable finance and asset pricing, an associate professor at CREST, ENSAE Paris, since 2023.

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Omeljan Pritsak

Omeljan Pritsak (Ukrainian: Омелян Пріцак; 1919–2006) was a Ukrainian orientalist and historian of the Eurasian steppe who co-founded and led the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Kyiv.

Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio, also known as Orazio Pietro Attanasio, is an Italian-British economist, Cowles Professor at Yale since 2019, known for randomized trials of early-childhood interventions in developing countries.

Orley Ashenfelter

Orley Ashenfelter is an American labor economist at Princeton University known for bringing randomized-experiment-style methods to policy questions and for the Bordeaux Equation predicting wine prices from weather.

Oscar Jordà

Òscar Jordà is a Spanish economist and econometrician at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and UC Davis, creator of the local projections method.

Otis Dudley Duncan

Otis Dudley Duncan, known professionally as Dudley Duncan, was an American sociologist and pioneer of quantitative sociology, known for the status attainment model and the Duncan socioeconomic index of occupations.

Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American scholar of Inner Asia and advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, author of Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940), later persecuted by McCarthy as alleged Soviet agent.

P. W. Singer

P. W. Singer, also known as Peter Warren Singer, is an American political scientist and author who studies how technology, private contractors, and social media change war.

Pablo Ottonello

Pablo Ottonello is a Uruguayan applied macroeconomist who studies sovereign default and fiscal policy under sovereign risk, holding the Watson professorship at Brown University and co-editing the Journal of International Economics.

Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza, born in Catania, Italy, in 1965, is a finance economist known for research on trust, culture, and social capital in finance, and is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna, born 1977 in Kanpur, India, is a political scientist and geopolitical analyst whose books, including Connectography (2016), argue that connectivity, cities, and supply chains shape world politics.

Parag Pathak

Parag Pathak is an American economist at MIT who designs the centralized systems matching students to public schools, work recognized with the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal.

Partha Dasgupta

Sir Partha Dasgupta, born in Dhaka in 1942, is a Cambridge economist known for work on welfare, poverty, and natural resources, and for the 2021 Dasgupta Review on biodiversity.

Pascal Boniface

Pascal Boniface, born 1956 in Paris, is a French geopolitician, founder and director of the IRIS think tank, and author of more than eighty books on international relations.

Pascual Restrepo

Pascual Restrepo is a Colombian-American economist and associate professor at Yale University, known for his work with Daron Acemoglu on how automation and robots affect jobs, wages, and inequality.

Patricia A. Van Zandt

Patricia A. Van Zandt, also known as Tricia Van Zandt, is a cognitive psychologist who received a 1997 PECASE while a psychology professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Patrick Bolton

Patrick Bolton, born 1957, is a French and American finance economist at Columbia Business School and Imperial College London, known for contract theory and climate finance.

Patrick J. Kehoe

Patrick J. Kehoe is an American macroeconomist, professor of economics at Stanford University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis consultant, known for business cycle accounting and critiques of New Keynesian models.

Patrick Kline

Patrick Kline is an American labor economist at UC Berkeley known for research on wage inequality, monopsony, and place-based policies like the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Patrick Velte

Patrick Velte (born 1980 in Winsen, Germany) is an economist and professor of Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance at Leuphana University Lüneburg, researching sustainability reporting and assurance.

Paul Alan Gompers

Paul Alan Gompers is an American economist and the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, known for research on venture capital, private equity, and corporate governance.

Paul B. Batalden

Paul B. Batalden is an American physician and healthcare quality improvement researcher, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Paul B. Ginsburg

Paul B. Ginsburg is an American health economist, professor at the University of Southern California, who directed the staff work behind Medicare's 1989 physician payment reform.

Paul Bloom (psychologist)

Paul Bloom (born 1963) is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies moral psychology and pleasure, wrote Against Empathy (2016), and taught at Yale before joining the University of Toronto in 2021.

Paul C. Stern

Paul C. Stern, born 1944, is an American social scientist studying environmentally significant behavior and climate mitigation, and president of the Social and Environmental Research Institute in Massachusetts.

Paul D. Cleary

Paul D. Cleary is an American health services researcher at Yale who developed the CAHPS patient-experience surveys used in Medicare payment and led national HIV care quality research.