Justin Wolfers is an Australian-American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributor to the New York Times (where he writes for the Freakonomics blog) and the Wall Street Journal and an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Wolfers' research has explored the economics of sports, sports betting, prediction markets and the family.
In 2007, he was named in David Leonardt's New York Times column as one of 13 young economists who were the future of economics.[1]