LAPP Distinguished Lecture - Behavioural Insights and COVID-19
Dr Joanne Yoong will highlight ways in which common cognitive biases affect our ability to make rational decisions about risks and uncertainty in everyday life, and how these translated into significant challenges for policy-making as well as citizen responses to COVID-19. She will discuss the potential of "nudge approaches" under these unique circumstances, and examples of their applications and limitations in practice.
Dr Joanne Yoong is an applied economist working at the intersection of behavioural economics, health and financial decision-making, and socioeconomic development. Her primary appointment is as Senior Economist at the University of Southern California (USC), where she directs the offices of the Center of Economic and Social Research in Singapore and Washington DC, and is a principal member of the USC Behavioral Economics Studio. She is also a visiting professor at the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an adjunct economist at the RAND Corporation. Her academic research has been published in leading economics, medical and public health journals, and funded by agencies such as the WHO, OECD, NIH, DFID, World Bank and USAID. In addition to her research, Dr Yoong is the founder of Research for Impact, a Singapore-based social enterprise dedicated to making rigorous and objective research and evaluation accessible, inclusive and transformative for populations in Asia. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University and AB summa cum laude in Economics and Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University.
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