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Joseph Price
Joseph Price is an associate professor of economics at Brigham Young University, specializing in family, education, health, and behavioral economics. His research has examined ways to promote positive behaviors in children, issues related to parental investments in children, and the use of sports data to identify various behavioral biases. He is the director of the BYU Veggie Project, a co-editor at the Economics of Education Review, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Center for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany; and the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.