Ruslan Galyamov is a doctoral candidate in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University. His research focuses on individual behaviors, such as gambling or smoking, responsible for economic losses to society. Ruslan employs theories of choice under risk & experimental methods to investigate the drivers of welfare-destroying behaviors & assess readily available tools to identify or cope with them. His main goal is to inform public policy through research in the economics lab, benefiting from maximum experiment control. Ruslan comes from Kazakhstan, Central Asia, & speaks Kazakh, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, & English.