The Faculty

Joseph Root studies Market and Mechanism Design, Microeconomic Theory, and Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on identifying unifying mathematical features for resource allocation among individuals or groups, in order to increase the scope of applications for market design. Prior to joining the faculty at UChicago, Root was a postdoctoral fellow at the Social and Information Sciences Laboratory at Caltech. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and an M.A. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. He also received a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics at UC Berkeley.