WAPPP Research Fellow
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh
Lise Vesterlund is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research aims to understand why men continue to be more successful than women in climbing the corporate ladder. She has demonstrated systematic gender differences in behavior when deciding whether to enter a competition or a negotiation, or when asked to perform a non-promotable task. In uncovering the drivers of these differences her work points to mechanisms that can be put in place to secure that the best qualified candidates are those promoted. She is the director of the Behavioral Economics Design Initiative (BEDI) and co-author of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work.