Heather Sarsons

Heather Sarsons

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in July 2025

Research area
Labour Economics Gender Behavioural Social Economics

About Heather Sarsons

Heather Sarsons is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has research interests in labour, social, and behavioural economics, with a focus on understanding the sources of gender inequality in labour markets.

Discussion papers

February 2026

Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms

Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons, Carla Srebot

January 2026

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Seema Jayachandran, Lea Nassal, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Marie Paul, Heather Sarsons, Elin Sundberg

November 2025

Jealousy of Trade: Exclusionary Preferences and Economic Nationalism

Alex Imas, Kristof Madarasz, Heather Sarsons