Faculty Mentor

Professor Barry Sopher is a professor in the Department of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa in 1988. He is an experimental economist and is the Director of the Laboratory for Economic Behavior, Institutions and Design, which is home to the Wachtler Experimental Economics Laboratory. His research is concerned with all manner of economic decision making, including decision making under uncertainty, intertemporal decision making and strategic decision making. Since coming to Rutgers University in 1987 he has served at times as the Undergraduate Program Director, the Graduate Program Director and the Department Chair for the Department of Economics. When not doing economics, he is often to be found hiking or snowshoeing in the Catskills, the Adirondacks or the White Mountains.