Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Andrew M. Parker is a senior behavioral and social scientist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research applies core concepts in behavioral decision research to the understanding of decisions in complex, real-world situations. He has led or contributed to RAND projects on decision quality, risk perception, and individual differences, involving such content domains as health and financial behavior, aging, emergency preparedness and community resilience, climate change, and psychological health. Past projects have addressed vaccination, low-income consumption decisions, retirement planning, mental health, expectations for major life events, and public responses to emerging crises.
Parker was principal investigator on a National Science Foundation–funded project validating an adult measure of decisionmaking competence, which has been used to predict major life outcomes. He currently coleads a National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases–funded project examining how influenza and COVID-19 risk perceptions propogate across social networks and influence vaccination decisions. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in behavioral decision theory and M.S. in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.A. in psychology and statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Ph.D. in behavioral decision theory, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; B.A. in psychology and statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
