Biography

Marie Claire Villeval is Research Professor in economics at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and she is affiliated with the GATE (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique) research institute, at the University of Lyon, France. She is also affiliated with IZA, Bonn.

She is the director of the GATE-Lab experimental platform at the University of Lyon and she is the former director of the GATE research institute (2007-2016). She is a member of the French Committee on Minimum Wage.

She is Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, and a member of Academia Europaea. She has been awarded the Silver Medal of CNRS in 2017. She is fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE).

She is President of the Economic Science Association. She was the Vice-President Europe of the Economic Science Association (2011-2016), the President of the French Economic Association (AFSE, 2010-2011), and the Founding President of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE, 2008-2010); she has chaired the nomination committee of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) during ten years and she is a member of its executive committee (2017-2019).
She is Department Editor at Management Science, Advisory Editor of Experimental Economics, Honorary Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association, the Journal of Neurosciences, Economics and Psychology, and the Review of Behavioral Economics. She was previously Co-Editor of Experimental Economics and of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, associate editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory, the Journal of Economic Psychology, and the Australian Journal of Labour Economics.
Her main fields of interest are behavioral economics and experimental economics, especially in the domains of labor economics and public economics.