Angela C. M. de Oliveira

I have just received my PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. Beginning this summer, I will be joining the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor.

I am interested in how information and preferences interact to impact individual economic decision making. My research interests include public economics and policy, experimental economics, and behavioral economics.

My current research focuses on how social preferences (things like altruism and reciprocity) and information (available about one's group members/society) interact to impact cooperation in a public goods environment.

Along with my co-authors, I am currently working on several projects, including:

The Neighborhoods Project: A Comparison of Individual Preferences for Risk, Time, and Cooperation in Three Low-Income Neighborhoods

Individual Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Public Goods Provision

Poverty and Social Norms

The Houston Schools Project: Understanding the Preferences of             High School Students