Jay Cizeski

Jay Cizeski is an Assistant Professor in the Economics department at Western Michigan University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego in 2026. 

 

Dr. Cizeski's research studies how people make economic decisions using laboratory experiments - simulated decision environments where subjects make real choices for real incentives. His work combines economic theory and experimental data to examine questions in bargaining, paternalistic choice, skepticism, and other topics at the intersection of economics and cognitive psychology. He is particularly interested in questions exploring strategic environments, in which people may consider their predictions of others' choices in order to make their own.

 

At WMU Dr. Cizeski teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics and Policy, and Game Theory and Experimental Economics. His goal is to familiarize students with the methods used by economists to model and predict human behavior, and furthermore encourage students to challenge and attempt to improve these models when they make predictions which seem unlikely or incorrect.