Working Papers
Lowering the Playing Field: Discrimination through Sequential Spillover Effects (with Corinne Low and Xiaoyue Shan), 2023. Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
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How Prosocial Preferences Change with Deliberation (with Hannu Kivimaki, Ashley Litwin, and Muriel Niederle), 2024. Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
Extreme Justifications Fuel Polarization (with Christiane Buschinger, Markus Eyting, and Florian Hett), 2025. Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal.
The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation (with Billur Aksoy and Christine Exley), 2025.
The Gender Concealment Gap (with Christine Exley, Raymond Fisman, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar), 2025.
A Model of Information Nudges (with Lucas C. Coffman and Clayton R. Featherstone), 2024.
Accepted, Forthcoming, and Published Papers
Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations (with Alvin E. Roth), 2025. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17 (2): 60-83. Online Appendix
Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market (with Sara B. Heller), 2024. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16 (4): 1-33. Online Appendix
Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed (with Christine Exley), 2024. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16 (2): 147-179. Online Appendix
Motivated Errors (with Christine Exley), 2024. American Economic Review, 114 (4): 961-987. Online Appendix
Fairness has less impact when agents are less informed (with Jennie Huang and Muriel Niederle), 2024. Experimental Economics, 27 (1): 155-174. Online Appendix
Liquidity For Teachers: Evidence from Teach For America and LinkedIn (with Lucas C. Coffman, John J. Conlon, Clayton R. Featherstone, and Jessica Mixon), 2023. Economics of Education Review, 97 (10246): 1-11. Online Appendix
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns (with Christine Exley), 2023. Economic Journal, 133 (656): 3153-3168. Online Appendix
Is Attention Produced Optimally? Theory and Evidence from Experiments with Bandwidth Enhancements (with Erin T. Bronchetti, Ellen B. Magenheim, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Eric Zwick), 2023. Econometrica, 91 (2): 669-707. Online Appendix (Winner of 2024 Exeter Prize)
Nudging Timely Wage Reporting: Field Experimental Evidence from the United States Supplemental Security Income Program (with C. Yiwei Zhang, Jeffrey Hemmeter, Robert D. Metcalfe, and Robert Weathers), 2023. Management Science, 69 (3): 1341-1353. Online Appendix
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion (with Christine Exley), 2022. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137 (3): 1345-1381. Online Appendix
The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime: Evidence from New York City Lotteries (with Sarah Tahamont, Alexander Gelber, and Adam Isen), 2022. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 41 (3): 710-730. Online Appendix
Soft Skills in the Youth Labor Market (with Sara B. Heller), 2022. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 112 (5): 121-125.
Can Market Participants Report their Preferences Accurately (Enough)? (with Eric Budish), 2022. Management Science, 68 (2): 1107-1130. Online Appendix
Short-term fluctuations in incidental happiness and economic decision-making: experimental evidence from a sports bar (with Andrew McClellan, James Nesbit, and Andrew Schotter), 2022. Experimental Economics 25 (1): 141-169. Online Appendix
Social Policy Instruments and the Compliance Environment (with Corinne Low and Monica Singhal), 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 192: 248-267.
Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives (with Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, and Katherine L. Milkman), 2020. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (29): 16891-16897. Online Appendix
Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception (with Corinne Low and Colin D. Sullivan), 2019. American Economic Review, 109 (11): 3713-3744. Online Appendix
Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America (with Lucas C. Coffman, John J. Conlon, and Clayton R. Featherstone), 2019. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134 (4): 2203-2236. Online Appendix
Getting the Rich and Powerful to Give (with Katherine L. Milkman and C. Yiwei Zhang), 2019. Management Science, 65 (9): 4049-4062. Online Appendix
The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons (with Hunt Allcott), 2019. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (1): 236-276. Online Appendix
Field study of charitable giving reveals that reciprocity decays over time (with Amanda Chuan and Katherine L. Milkman), 2018. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (8): 1766-1771. Online Appendix
Identity in Charitable Giving (with Katherine L. Milkman), 2018. Management Science, 64 (2): 845-859. Online Appendix
Announcements of Support and Public Good Provision, 2017. American Economic Review, 107 (12): 3760-3787. Online Appendix
Course Match: A Large-Scale Implementation of Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Combinatorial Allocation (with Eric Budish, Gerard P. Cachon, and Abraham Othman), 2017. Operations Research, 65 (2): 314-336. Online Appendix
Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep? (with Lucas C. Coffman and Clayton R. Featherstone), 2017. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9 (1): 96-117. Online Appendix
The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Lotteries (with Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen), 2016. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (1): 423-460. Online Appendix
Procedural Fairness and the Cost of Control (with Stephen Leider), 2016. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 32 (4): 685-718.
Tax aversion in labor supply (with Michael I. Norton), 2016. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 124: 15-28.
The articulation effect of government policy: Health insurance mandates versus taxes (with Keith M. Ericson), 2016. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 124: 43-54. Online Appendix
Getting More Organs for Transplantation (with Alvin E. Roth), 2014. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 104 (5): 425-430.
Loopholes undermine donation: An experiment motivated by an organ donation priority loophole in Israel (with Alvin E. Roth), 2014. Journal of Public Economics, 114: 19-28.
Learning from (failed) replications: Cognitive load manipulations and charitable giving (with Stephan Meier), 2014. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 102: 10-13. Online Appendix
Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate (with Alvin E. Roth), 2012. American Economic Review, 102 (5): 2018-2047.
Norms and Contracting (with Stephen Leider), 2012. Management Science, 58 (1): 62-77.
Health Economics and Health Policy Papers
A randomized trial of theory-informed appeals for organ donor registration using internet advertisements (with Peter P. Reese et al.). 2020. Kidney International Reports. Online Appendix
Partners and Alerts in Medication Adherence: A Randomized Clinical Trial (with Kevin G. Volpp et al.). 2018. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33 (9): 1536-1542.
A behavioral blueprint for improving health care policy (with George Loewenstein et al.), 2017. Behavioral Science & Policy: 5 (1): 53-66.
Incentivizing Organ Donor Registrations With Organ Allocation Priority (with Avraham Stoler, Tamar Ashkenazi, Alvin E. Roth, and Jacob Lavee), 2017. Health Economics, 26 (4): 500-510. Online Appendix
Incentivizing Authorization for Deceased Organ Donation with Organ Allocation Priority: The First Five Years (with Avraham Stoler, Tamar Ashkenazi, Alvin E. Roth, and Jacob Lavee), 2016. American Journal of Transplantation. 16 (9): 2639-2645.
Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel et al.), 2016. Annals of Internal Medicine 164 (2): 114-119.
Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence among Patients with Diabetes (with Peter P. Reese et al.), 2015. Journal of General Internal Medicine: 1-9. Online Appendix
Book Chapters
How To Allocate Slots: the Market Design of Summer Youth Employment Programs (with Sara B. Heller). Fair by Design: Economic Design Approaches to Inequality, Edited by Scott D. Kominers and Alex Teytelboym, Oxford University Press.
External Validity of Laboratory Experiments: The Misleading Emphasis on Quantitative Effects (with Lise Vesterlund), 2015. Handbook of Experimental Economics Methodology, Edited by Guillaume Frechette and Andrew Schotter, Oxford University Press.
Behavioural Economics and Health (with C. Yiwei Zhang), 2015. Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health, Sixth Edition, Edited by Rogers Detels, Martin Gulliford, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Chorh Chuan Tan, Oxford University Press.
