Angelino Viceisza
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Background
Angelino Viceisza is full professor of economics at Spelman College, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), president of the National Economic Association (2023-24), and associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He obtained his PhD in economics from Georgia State University, and holds two master’s degrees in economics and an MBA in international business.
Interests
Viceisza’s primary expertise is in behavioral and experimental economics, with applications in development, household finance, and entrepreneurship. A significant part of his research has studied determinants of financial remittances that migrants send to family and friends in countries of origin. Viceisza has extensive experience designing and conducting field experiments in a variety of countries, including El Salvador, Ethiopia, Peru, Senegal, the United States, and Vietnam.
Viceisza currently teaches behavioral game theory and intermediate microeconomic theory. In 2014, he was awarded the Vulcan Award for Excellence in Teaching at Spelman College. He is the founder and director of VLab, a virtual lab that primarily engages Spelman students in research experiences.
Viceisza serves as a member of the American Economic Association (AEA) Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession as well as a mentor in the AEA Mentoring Program and the AEA LGBTQ+ Mentoring Program.
Sample Work
Publication
What can Historically Black Colleges and Universities teach about improving higher education outcomes for Black students?
Price. Gregory, and Angelino C. G. Viceisza. 2023. “What can Historically Black Colleges and Universities teach about improving higher education outcomes for Black students?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming).
Publication
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal
Aflagah, Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa, Bernard, Tanguy, and Angelino C. G. Viceisza. 2022. “Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal.” Journal of Development Economics, 154, 102751.
Publication
Competition and prosociality: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Ghana
Grosch, Kerstin, Ibañez, Marcela, and Angelino C. G. Viceisza. 2022. “Competition and prosociality: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Ghana.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 99, 101887.
Publication
Introduction to Special Issue on “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Viceisza, A. C. G. and Miesha Williams. 2021. “Introduction to Special Issue on “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 50 (3), 395-400.