Joshua Dean
· Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Faculty Research & Cumulative Initiatives Faculty FellowUniversity of Chicago · Behavioral Science
Active 1995–2026
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About
I am an Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Faculty Research & Cumulative Initiatives Faculty Fellow at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I am an economist applying insights from psychology to important economic problems, particularly in development economics. I hope that by combining tools and theory from both economics and psychology my work can improve our understanding of difficult problems in economics, identify new problems that the classical approach may miss, and highlight directions for further psychological research.
Research topics
- Environmental science
- Environmental chemistry
- Physical geography
- Ecology
- Chemistry
- Geology
- Soil science
- Oceanography
- Geography
- Geomorphology
Selected publications
Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems
2025-01-01 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingHigher, but more variable, annual CO2 emissions from lakes in drier Arctic landscapes
Communications Earth & Environment · 2026-02-07
articleOpen accessAbstract Land-to-water hydrological connections represent a key regulatory mechanism of carbon transport, controlling carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from lakes; however, as of yet, there is no assessment of its role at a pan-Arctic scale across large climatic and topographical gradients. We hypothesized that hydrologically well-connected lakes in wetter regions are CO 2 sources fueled by stronger lateral fluxes of external carbon relative to drier regions. However, based on data from >200 A…
Induction stove adoption in Kenya
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-09-19
datasetSenior author2025-10-20
preprintOpen accessABCFlux v2: Arctic-boreal CO2 and CH4
Induction stove adoption in Kenya
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-09-19
datasetSenior author
Frequent coauthors
- 58 shared
John A. Webb
La Trobe University
- 40 shared
Edoardo Daly
- 34 shared
A. J. Dolman
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 31 shared
Matteo Camporese
University of Padua
- 26 shared
Ove H. Meisel
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 23 shared
Jorien E. Vonk
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 21 shared
P. Evan Dresel
Agriculture Victoria
- 20 shared
Mark H. Garnett
Education
- 2015
PhD
La Trobe University
Awards & honors
- Distinguished Alumni Award
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