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Sara Constantino is an assistant professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences and a visiting research scholar at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. She has an interdisciplinary background at the intersection of economics, psychology, and environmental policy. Her research focuses on understanding the interplay between individual, collective, institutional and ecological factors, including how they shape preferences, decisions, and resilience to extreme events or shocks and how they mobilize or impede efforts to address climate change. Prior to starting at Stanford, she was an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University and an associate research scholar at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Before this, she was a senior research fellow in guaranteed income with the Jain Family Institute, a founding editor at Nature Human Behavior, and a research coordinator with the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics from McGill University, a master’s degree in economics from University College London, a Ph.D. in cognitive and decision sciences from New York University, and a postdoc focused on environmental policy, politics and decision-making at Princeton University.
- Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
- High Meadows Environmental Institute
- Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy
- Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
- Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment