The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.
The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments
Econometrics, trends and transitions in economic activity, asset price bubble detection methods, modelling volatility in financial data, and automated model building for policy analysis and forecasting
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