Editing Matthew Rabin (section)

==Background==
Rabin was the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Economics Department for 25 years before moving to Harvard.<ref name=harvard/><ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin|url=http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/843|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506074143/http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/843|archive-date=May 6, 2012}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Economics]] and [[Mathematics]] from [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in 1984 and [[PhD]] in [[Economics]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 1989.<ref name=rabin>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin|url=http://eml.berkeley.edu/~rabin/webcv.html|publisher=University of Berkeley|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028035132/http://eml.berkeley.edu/~rabin/webcv.html|archive-date=2014-10-28}}</ref> Before entering MIT, he was a research student at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name=harvard/> He is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and co-organizer of the Russell Sage Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics.<ref name=rabin/> Rabin has also been a visiting professor at M.I.T., London School of Economics, Northwestern, Harvard, and Caltech, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Russell Sage Foundation.<ref name=harvard/><ref name=rabin/>

His research is  directed, among other economic fields, towards [[behavioral finance]] and [[behavioral economics]]. Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning. He developed [[Rabin fairness]] as a model to account for fairness in social preferences. In 2001, he was awarded the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] by the [[American Economic Association]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin John Bates Clark Medalist 2001|url=http://www.aeaweb.org/PDF_files/Bios/Rabin_Bio_2001.pdf|publisher=AEA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512131140/http://www.aeaweb.org/PDF_files/Bios/Rabin_Bio_2001.pdf|archive-date=2013-05-12}}</ref> and also the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship]].<ref name=rabin/> In 2006, he was awarded the [[John von Neumann Award]] by the [[Rajk László College for Advanced Studies]].<ref name=rabin/>