brian.jabarian@chicagobooth.edu
CV
I am the Howard and Nancy Marks Fellow (postdoc) at the University of Chicago Booth Business School. In 2023, I received my Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics. I am also affiliated with the Booth Center for Applied AI.
My research in behavioral economics, experimental economics, and the economics of AI centers on the cognitive foundations, behavioral mechanisms, and societal implications of technology in individual and collective decision-making.
Research
Working Papers
A Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox (with S. Lazarus)
Current version June 2024
Critical Thinking and Storytelling Contexts (with E. Sartori)
Current version August 2024
Publications
The Next Generation of Experimental Research with LLMs (with Gary Charness, John List)
Nature Human Behaviour (2025): 1-3.
Featured in: World Economic Forum, Chicago Booth Review, VoxEU Column
NBER long working paper version: “Generation Next: Experimentation with AI”
Book Chapters & Surveys
Jabarian, B., LLMs for Behavioral Economics: Ensuring Internal Validity and Elicitating Mental Models'',
Available at SSRN 4880892 (June 2024), Entry under preparation for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science
Jabarian, B., LLMs for Behavioral Economics: Synthetic Mental Models and Data Generalization'',
Available at SSRN 4880894 (June 2024), Entry under preparation for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science
Jabarian, B., Black Boxes: Mental Models and AI Models'', Current version June 2024,
Chapter under preparation for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Teaching
University of Chicago, Becker-Friedman Institute
The Chicago Summer School in Experimental Economics (Post-PhD level, instructor): Summer 2024, Summer 2025
Sciences Po Paris, School of Public Affairs
Introduction to Social Sciences (Undergraduate, Teaching Fellow): Summer 2018
Economics of Art and Culture (MA Public Affairs, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Françoise Benhamou): Spring 2018
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Culture (Executive Education, Teaching Fellow): Fall 2017
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Mathematics for Economics (Undergraduate, Teaching Fellow): Spring 2018
Introduction to Economics (Undergraduate, Teaching Fellow): Fall 2017