Welcome to my website.

I am Valon Vitaku and I am currently completing a post-doc at the Human Behavior Lab (TAMU).

My research investigates how payoff-relevant and payoff-irrelevant information alters decision-making and market outcomes. I seek to understand how information can be utilized to improve economic outcomes and achieve policy goals. I have used experimental methods to investigate whether information can reduce congestion in traffic, improve the efficiency-equity trade-off in school choice, and how it affects risk-taking behavior. In more recent work, I have examined whether transparency can improve sorting efficiency and promote (or sustain) productivity in labor market experiments. Sometimes I augment experiments with process data, i.e. eye-tracking, facial expression analysis and galvanic skin response, to explore mechanisms that affect decisions, perceptions of fairness, and conformity to rationality.