Noa
Palmon

Noa Palmon is a PhD student in behavioural economics, the field that studies how people make decisions in everyday life. Her work examines how human learning and decision-making patterns can lead to overestimating the value of punishment, generating support for populist policies. Using decision-making experiments and computational modelling, Noa studies how the informational features of environments—the way information is presented, structured, or made available—can distort perceptions of punishment and give rise to populist preferences. Her work aims to contribute to both decision-making theory and evidence-based policy design.

Noa aims to contribute to both decision-making theory and evidence-based policy design.

Noa graduated from the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University and earned her MSc in computational neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She grew up in Moshav Beit Nekofa and currently lives in Haifa with her husband. Noa is a teaching assistant at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, interned with the Promising Economists for Israel’s Public Sector program, and volunteered as a programming instructor at QueenB, promoting female representation in technology. Away from her desk, she enjoys playing the violin and exploring wildlife, nature, and different cultures while travelling.