Sarit Weisburd is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategy Department at the Hebrew University Business School, and a research affiliate of the CEPR Industrial Organization programme.
Dr. Weisburd joined the Strategy department in 2021, and her research focuses on Applied IO, Consumer Choice, Business Economics, and Law and Economics. She earned her bachelor’s degree at University of Maryland in Math and Economics (Magna Cum Laude). Before pursuing her Masters and PhD studies in Economics at the Hebrew University, she worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC.
Dr. Weisburd has published her research in leading journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and The Economic Journal; and has received prestigious research grants/fellowships from the ISF, NBER, and Israel’s National Road Safety Authority. Her work has also been discussed on the Probable Causation podcast, and cited on the Ynet and City Journal news outlets. She has taught courses in econometrics and business strategy.
- Research Summary
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I am an applied economist who has conducted research on a wide range of topics in the areas of consumer choice, risk and insurance, labor economics, and crime economics. The common thread running through these disparate fields is the focus on how policy shapes behavior, and identifying causal estimates using unique data sets and cutting-edge econometric tools and techniques. In the past few years, I have begun applying my experience in analyzing big data from my work on policing (“Police Presence, Rapid Response Rates, and Crime Prevention” (Restat, 2021), and “Police Response Times and Injury Outcomes” (EJ, 2023) to better understanding consumer decision-making in online supermarket platforms. In the first of a series of projects on consumer choice, I’m working with co authors to measure how changes in information availability affect consumers’ product choices. In our “Providing Consumers with Sale Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Online Supermarket Shopping” (JINDEC, 2024), we report that while individuals are more likely to purchase sale items, promotional material can lead to irrational choices.
- Publications
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"How Do Shoppers Respond to Noisy Signals on Price Changes? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Online Supermarket Shopping" with Kfir Eliaz and Orli Oren-Kolbinger, Journal of Industrial Economics, Jun 2024
"Police Response Times and Injury Outcomes" with Gregory DeAngelo and Marina Toger Economic Journal , Aug 2023
“Social Security, Labor Supply and Health of Older Workers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Reform” with Itay Saporta-Eksten and Ity Shurtz, Journal of the European Economic Association, Aug 2021
“Police Presence, Rapid Response Rates, and Crime Prevention” The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2021
“Do Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices Deter Crime? Evidence at Micro-Units of Space and Time” with David Weisburd, Alese Wooditch, and Sue-Ming Yang Criminology & Public Policy, Nov 2015
“Identifying Moral Hazard in Car Insurance Contracts.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2015
- In the News
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"חוקרים פרטיים: האם התשובה לכל שאלה היא לתת לנתונים לדבר" [Private researchers: Is the answer to every question ‘Let the data do the talking’?] https://www.ynet.co.il/article/HyLHopUcw, November 21, 2020.
Lehman, Charles Fain. “Beat Cops Cut Crime.” https://www.city-journal.org/how-police-presence-maintains-public-order, November 30 2020.
- Awards & Honors
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Individual Research Grant 1224/24 “Does Privacy Matter? Evidence from a Legal Reform” from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (joint with Ilan Kramer), October 2024- September 2027
Research Grant from the Falk Institute (joint with Itai Ater), August 2023 – August 2027
Individual Research Grant 947/20 “Using big data to understand what causes people to make healthier food choices” from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), October 2020- September 2023
Research Grant from the Falk Institute (joint with Analia Schlosser), August 2017 – August 2021
Individual Research Grant 1067/16 “Police presence, rapid response rates, and crime” from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), October 2016- September 2020
Research Grant from the Sapir Foundation, October 2014- August 2021
Doctoral Scholarship from the Ran Naor Foundation, August 2013- May 2014
NSF/NBER Crime Research Fellow, July 2013- July 2014
Blazuska Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Student in Economics, Hebrew University, October 2011
Doctoral Fellowship from the Israel National Road Safety Authority, (October 2008- September 2011