David Reinstein is an Economist based at the University of Exeter. His research considers other-regarding behavior, charitable giving, returns to education, applications of mechanism design, and psychology and economics. He uses a variety of methods including observational econometrics and statistics, lab and field experiments, and economic theory. He is active in projects of collaborative research, dissemination, and synthesis including the Innovations in Fundraising Wiki and data sharing (editorial board, Scientific Data; consultation for x-econ). As interim director of the EssexLab (Essex) he promoted initiatives of experiment verification and cross-experiment data sharing (Omnibus survey).