Jason is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Baylor University.
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Jason specializes in behavioral, experimental, and micro-health economics.
He explores the behavioral and the neural underpinnings behind economic decision-making.
Most recently much of his work has centered around the economics criminal justice system and modeling and creating laboratory versions of the US criminal justice system within the experimental laboratory.
His research also illustrates the impact of health on economic decisions as well as the importance of economic decisions for health.
NSF Funded Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference:
In August 2023, the NSF awarded Braxton Gately (WIU) and me a grant to host a national conference on interdisciplinary research ethics and norms at Baylor. More details will be announced soon.
Texas Jury Donation Cards:
My (2019) work with Charles North and Lucas Rentschler on the potential unintended consequences of the 1995 Texas jury donation card policy legislation found its way into the hands of our local representatives and moved its way through the Texas legislature system. It resulted in a new bill being written, passed (unopposed), and signed into law to fix the potential problems that our laboratory experiment suggested were possible. You can read more about the bill here.
Rules for behavioral science:
I published a correspondence published in Nature on rules that policy makers should consider when utilizing the tools of economic science to back up policy initiatives. Such rules are particularly important today in light of Obama's (Sept 2015) Executive Order -- "Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People" passed by the Obama Administration. Since that executive order many nations have expanded the use of scientific studies to motivate and test policies. While a wonderful thing, care should be taken to ensure that such scientific endeavors are transparent, peer reviewed, and ethical.
For my Correspondence: Nature October 2015
For the Executive Order: See text here.
C.V. here.
Contact info:
Jason A. Aimone
E-mail: jason_aimone@baylor.edu
He is also affiliated with the:
Jason specializes in behavioral, experimental, and micro-health economics.
He explores the behavioral and the neural underpinnings behind economic decision-making.
Most recently much of his work has centered around the economics criminal justice system and modeling and creating laboratory versions of the US criminal justice system within the experimental laboratory.
His research also illustrates the impact of health on economic decisions as well as the importance of economic decisions for health.
NSF Funded Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference:
In August 2023, the NSF awarded Braxton Gately (WIU) and me a grant to host a national conference on interdisciplinary research ethics and norms at Baylor. More details will be announced soon.
Texas Jury Donation Cards:
My (2019) work with Charles North and Lucas Rentschler on the potential unintended consequences of the 1995 Texas jury donation card policy legislation found its way into the hands of our local representatives and moved its way through the Texas legislature system. It resulted in a new bill being written, passed (unopposed), and signed into law to fix the potential problems that our laboratory experiment suggested were possible. You can read more about the bill here.
Rules for behavioral science:
I published a correspondence published in Nature on rules that policy makers should consider when utilizing the tools of economic science to back up policy initiatives. Such rules are particularly important today in light of Obama's (Sept 2015) Executive Order -- "Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People" passed by the Obama Administration. Since that executive order many nations have expanded the use of scientific studies to motivate and test policies. While a wonderful thing, care should be taken to ensure that such scientific endeavors are transparent, peer reviewed, and ethical.
For my Correspondence: Nature October 2015
For the Executive Order: See text here.
C.V. here.
Contact info:
Jason A. Aimone
E-mail: jason_aimone@baylor.edu
