I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS–PSL), under the supervision of Maël Lebreton and Nicolas Jacquemet.

My research investigates the cognitive foundations of prosocial behavior using economic experiments. My job market paper studies the effects of prosocial motivations on the selective forgetting of social interactions.

My doctoral work is integrated to PSE through the Opening Economics initiative, and generally owes much to both behavioral economics and cognitive psychology.

In 2026, I was a visiting student at the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR, NHH), sponsored by Bertil Tungodden.

I will be on the econ academic job market in 2026–2027.

aurelien.klopfenstein@psemail.eu
0009-0008-9970-6498
@klopfenstein.bsky.social
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