ECON 3416 — Behavioral Economics

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: T/FBostonTraditional

Questions assumptions made in standard microeconomic utility-driven models, using insights from psychology and other social sciences. Examines behavior that departs from these assumptions and tests theories with data. Incorporates empirical evidence from a wide range of fields, including development economics, health economics, labor economics, industrial organization, and finance. Topics include deviations from standard models in terms of preferences (present bias, reference dependence, and social preferences); beliefs (projection bias); and decision making (cognition, attention, and framing); as well as market and policy reactions to such deviations.

Prerequisites

all of:
- one of:
  - ECON 1116 (min D-)
  - ECO 213M
- one of:
  - ECON 2350 (min D-)
  - BUSM 22EM
  - MATH 2280 (min D-)
  - MATH 3081 (min D-)
  - MGSC 2301 (min D-)
  - BUSM 224M
  - POLS 2400 (min D-)
  - PSYC 2320 (min D-)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	2	65	69	94%	2.0
Fall 2024	1	48	50	96%	2.0
Spring 2026	1	43	43	100%	0.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 12% · T 58% · W 30% · Th 0% · F 58%

Common patterns: TF (58% of sections), W (30% of sections), M (12% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Silvia Prina (100% of students) · reviews

Spring

Brookelyn Adams (100% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (ECON course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All ECON courses · Plan it at numap.app