Jeffrey Naecker
Behavioral Economist at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Naecker is a behavioral economist with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and industry practice, currently applying experimental design and machine learning at Google to study social and risk preferences. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford and taught as an assistant professor at Wesleyan, bringing rigorous causal inference and experimental methods to product and policy questions. His background in physics and quantitative tutoring underpins a comfort with complex mathematical models and clear communication of technical ideas. Based in California, he combines scholarly curiosity with product-focused impact, translating lab insights into scalable interventions. An early career threaded through research labs and content roles reveals a habit of making technical work accessible to diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics and Physics, B.A., Economics and Physics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Economics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Economics at Stanford UniversityFlintridge Preparatory School
French
Stackoverflow
31reputation
337reached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (9)
radix-sort6
tidygraph6
optimization6
r6
sorting6
purrr6
statistics5
visualization4
data-science3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
naecker-lab/lab-manual
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
jnaecker/jnaecker.github.io
Apr 2014 - Feb 2022
Contributions:71 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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