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Judd Kessler

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Howard Marks Professor at The Wharton School
📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Judd Kessler is the Howard Marks Endowed Professor at The Wharton School, specializing in market design, public economics, and behavioral economics. He holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University and leverages his expertise to research topics like charitable giving, organ donation, and worker effort. He is the author of "Lucky by Design. "

Judd applies economic principles to understand everyday life, from dating apps to job markets, exploring the hidden rules that determine success. As a New Yorker and co-founder of DipJar, a device for credit card tips, he is interested in encouraging pro-social behavior and charitable giving in practical ways.

He was named one of Forbess "30 under 30" in Law and Policy for his work on organ allocation.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Howard Marks Professor
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Market Design
His primary research area, focusing on bringing market design theory into practice in areas like course allocation and organ donation priority systems.
Behavioral Economics
He uses lab and field experiments to understand the economic and psychological forces that motivate individual behaviors and choices in public and labor economics.
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Career

Work history

7-2022
Howard Marks Professor
The Wharton School
7-2021 - 6-2022
Howard Marks Associate Professor
The Wharton School
7-2018 - 6-2021
Associate Professor
The Wharton School
6-2025
Keynote Speaker
The Lavin Agency
1-2012 - 11-2017
Advisor
DipJar
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Education
2005 - 2011
PhD
Harvard University
2004 - 2005
MPhil
University of Cambridge
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