Laura Schechter is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Economics at UW Madison. Before that she was Olav F. and Elsie de Noyer Anderson-Bascom Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW Madison. She has been associate editor at the Economic Journal and co-editor at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Her work has been covered by NPR’s Planet Money and has been funded by the NSF, IFPRI, PEDL, and ATAI among others. Her work has been published in top general interest economics journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, and the Economic Journal, as well as in top agricultural economics journals such as American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, and in top development economics journals such as Journal of Development Economics. Laura has also won graduate teaching awards, undergraduate teaching awards, and mentoring awards. Laura’s work uses experimental methods and causal econometric analysis to study topics related to reciprocity and trust, vote buying, sanitation, and technology adoption.