Research Papers

 

Experimental

"Room Effects,"
with Marco Castillo and Gregory Leo, April 2013.

"Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency and Risk Preferences,"
with Marco Castillo and David Dickinson, November 2012.

"Going Negative: The Persuasive Effect of Tone and Information on Campaign Fundraising and Voter Turnout ,"
with Jared Barton and Marco Castillo, November 2012.

"What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning,"
with Jared Barton and Marco Castillo, October 2012. Updated

"Favor Trading in Public Good Provision,"
with Sarah Jacobson, April 2013. Updated

"Beautiful or White? Discrimination in Group Formation," 
with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, November 2011.

"Rationality and the Nature of the Market,"
with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, September 2008.

"Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination,"
with Marco Castillo, Maximo Torero and Lise Vesterlund, forthcoming Journal of Public Economics, 2013.

"Lost in the Mail: A Field Experiment on Crime,"
with Marco Castillo, Maximo Torero and Angelino Viceisza, forthcoming Economic Inquiry, 2013.

"The Today and Tomorrow of Kids: Time Preferences and Educational Outcomes of Children,"
with Marco Castillo, Paul Ferraro and Jeff Jordan, Journal of Public Economics, 95(11-12), 2011, 1377-1385.

"Face Value,"
with Catherine Eckel, American Economic Review, 101(4), 2011, 1497-1513.

"On the Preferences of Principals and Agents,"
with Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero, Economic Inquiry,
48(2), 2010, 266-273.

"Discrimination in the Lab: Does Information Trump Appearance?,"
with Marco Castillo, Games and Economic Behavior,
68(1), 2010, 50-59.

"Learning from Mistakes: What Do Inconsistent Choices Over Risk Tell Us?,"
with Sarah Jacobson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 38(2), 2009, 143-158
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"Beauty, Gender and Stereotypes: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments,"
with James Andreoni, Journal of Economic Psychology, 29, February 2008, 73-93.
**Click here to read the New York Times article (April 6, 2006) citing this research. This work is also cited in the U.K.'s The Daily Mail and The Independent (August 12, 2007).

"Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining,"
with James Andreoni and Marco Castillo, Korean Economic Review, 25(1), Summer 2009, 35-64 (also appeared in NAJ Economics, 9(4), 2005).

"Public Goods Experiments Without Confidentiality: A Glimpse Into Fund-Raising,"
with James Andreoni, Journal of Public Economics, 88(7-8), 2004, 1605-1623.

"What do Bargainers' Preferences Look Like?  Experiments with a Convex Ultimatum Game?"
with James Andreoni and Marco Castillo, American Economic Review, 2003, 93(3), 672-685.

Development and Land Economics

"Discrimination in the Warplace: Evidence from a Civil War in Peru,"
with Marco Castillo, November 2007.

Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A Hedonic Approach Applied to Farmland in the Southeastern U.S.,”
with Laura Taylor, Land Economics, 83(3), August 2007, 302-318

"Farm Household Production Efficiency: Evidence from the Gambia,"
with Jean-Paul Chavas and Michael J. Roth, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(1), 2005, 160-179.

"Seeking Women Land Owners and Ownership in Zimbabwe: Case Studies of Deeds Registration Haves and Have Nots,"
with Kizito Mazvimavi and Michael J. Roth, in Delivering Land and Securing Rural Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe, Michael Roth and Francis Gonese, eds., Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe and the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2003, 141-157.

 

Reports

"Rwanda Credit Unions Member and Non-Member Survey 2002,"
World Council of Credit Unions Research Monograph Series No. 20, June 2002.