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2025

Optimal Contracts When the Players Think Differently
Luca Rigotti, Martin Dumas, Urmee Khan
Economic Theory


Slow Traffic, Fast Food: The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
Lester Lusher, Panka Bencsik, Rebecca L.C. Taylor
Journal of Urban Economics


Artificial Intelligence and the Wellbeing of Workers
Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella, Johannes Koenig
Nature: Scientific Reports


Impact of Kidney Allocation System 250 Policy on 1-Year Graft Loss
Osea Giuntella, Zhang, X., Potluri, V. S., Molinari, M., Giuntella, O., Hariharan, S., Puttarajappa, C. M.
American Journal of Transplantation


The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group
Andreas Ferrara, Sergio Barrera, Price Fishback, Misty Heggeness
Explorations in Economic History


Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S. (Chapter 21)
Andreas Ferrara
The Routledge Economic History of War (Book)


Borrowing Based on Great Expectations: Evidence from the Origins of Fracking
Daniel Berkowitz, Andrew Boslett, Jason Brown, Jeremy Weber
Management Science


The Effects of an Emergency Savings Program on Work Performance: A Two-Year Field Intervention
Daniel Berkowitz, Carrie Leana, Daniye Kamram-Morley, Yolanda Yang
Industrial and Labor Relations Review


Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan
Yasir Muhammad Khan, Michael Callen, Arman Rezae, Syed Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar
Economic Development and Cultural Change


Childhood Confidence, Schooling, and the Labor Market: Evidence from the PSID
Lucy Page, Hannah Ruebeck
Journal of Human Resources


Parameter Path Estimation in Unstable Environments: The tvpreg Command
Yiru Wang, Atsushi Inoue, Barbara Rossi, Lingyun Zhou
Stata Journal


Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games
Alistair Wilson, Marta Boczoń , Emanuel Vespa , Taylor Weidman
Journal of the European Economic Association


The Effects of Community Land Trusts on Neighborhood Outcomes
Omer Ali, Sarah Raviola
Real Estate Economics


The Elected Official Next Door
Randall Walsh, Daniel Jones, Jiangnan Zeng
Regional Science and Urban Economics


2024

Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing
Lester Lusher, Scott Carrell, David Figlio
Journal of Political Economy


How do Workers Adjust to Robots? Evidence from China
Osea Giuntella, Tianyi Wang , Yi Lu
The Economic Journal


Relative Income within the Household, Gender Norms, and Well-being
Osea Giuntella, Rania Gihleb, Luca Stella
PLOS One


Persuasion in Veto Bargaining
Richard Van Weelden, Jenny Kim, Teddy Kim
American Journal of Political Science


Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments
David Danz, Lise Vesterlund, Alistair J. Wilson
Journal of Economic Perspectives


Variable Selection in High Dimensional Linear Regressions with Parameter Instability
Mahrad Sharifvaghefi, Alex Chudik, Hashem Pesaran
Journal of Econometrics


Variable Selection in Linear Regressions with Possibly all Strongly Correlated Covariates
Mahrad Sharifvaghefi
Econometric Reviews


Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample
Stephanie Wang, Jonathan Chapman, Colin F. Camerer, Erik Snowberg
Review of Economic Studies


Allocators Are More Prosocial When Affected Agents Can Visually Eavesdrop
Stephanie Wang, Colin F. Camerer
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization


Limits on Regret as a Tool for Incentive Design
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics
Alistair Wilson, Alex Imas, Felipe Araujo


Does Anger Drive Populism?
Economics Bulletin
Omer Ali, Klaus Desmet, Romain Wacziarg


Identification and Estimation of Partial Effects in Nonlinear Semiparametric Panel Models
Journal of Econometrics
Laura Liu, Alexandre Poirier, Ji-Liang Shiu


Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data
Journal of Economic History
Andreas Ferrara, Joung Yeob Ha, Randall P. Walsh


Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing
Journal of Political Economy
Lester Lusher, Scott Carrell, David Figlio


Sleep Norms
AEA P&P
Osea Giuntella, Andrea Kiss, Stephanie Wang


The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Long-Hours and Work Schedules
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Osea Giuntella, Rania Gihleb, Jian Qi Tan


The Growth of Firms, Markets and Rents: Evidence from China
Journal of Comparative Economics
Daniel Berkowitz, Shuichiro Nishioka


Pandora's Ballot Box: Electoral Politics of Referendums
American Journal of Political Science
Richard Van Weelden, Peter Buisseret


Improving Introductory Economics Course Content and Delivery Improves Outcomes for Women
Journal of Economic Education
Jane Caldwell, Mallory Avery, Christian Schunn, Katherine Wolfe


The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC
Econometrica
Gabriel Tourek, Augustin Bergeron, Jonathan Weigel


How Can Lower Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Gabriel Tourek, Oyebola Okunogbe


“Good Politicians”: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance
Review of Economic Studies
Muhammad Yasir Khan, Saad Gulzar


Self-Signaling in Voting
Journal of Public Economics
Stephanie Wang, Lydia Mechtenberg, Grischa Perino, Nicola Treich, Jean-Robert Tyran


Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitude Towards Losses in a Representative Sample
Review of Economic Studies
Stephanie Wang, Jonathan Chapman, Erik Snowberg, Colin F. Camerer


Local Projections in Unstable Environments
Journal of Econometrics
Yiru Wang, Atsushi Inoue, Barbara Rossi


Identify Latent Group Structures in Panel Data: The Classifylasso Command
Stata Journal
Yiru Wang, Wenxin Huang, Lingyun Zhou


Racial and Ethnic Representation in Local Government
American Economic Journal: Policy
Randall Walsh, Brian Beach, Daniel Jones, Tate Twinam


2023

The Full Recession: Private versus Social Costs of COVID-19
International Economic Review
Marla Ripoll, Juan Carlos Cordoba, Siqiang Yang


The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Andreas Ferrara, Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, Patrick A. Testa


Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South
Journal of Economic History
Andreas Ferrara, Patrick A. Testa


Unpacking P-hacking and Publication Bias
American Economic Review
Lester Lusher, Abel Brodeur, Scott Carrell, David Figlio


Congestion on the Information Superhighway: Inefficiencies in Economics Working Papers
Journal of Public Economics
Lester Lusher, Wenni Yang, Scott Carrell


Unhealthy Sleep Assimilation
European Sociological Review
Osea Giuntella, Francesco Billari, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Luca Stella


On the Incentives to Exacerbate Polarization
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
Richard Van Weelden, Pablo Montagnes


A Multi-Agent Model of Misspecified Learning with Overconfidence
Games and Economic Behavior
Cuimin Ba, Alice Gindin


Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India
American Economic Review: Insights
Gabriel Tourek, Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh


Gender Differences in Negotiation: Can Interventions Reduce the Gap?
Annual Review
Lise Vesterlund, Maria Recalde


Motives to Give in Economics and Psychology: A Step Toward Unification
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Lise Vesterlund, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm


2022

De-politicization and Corporate Transformation: Evidence from China
Daniel Berkowitz, Chen Lin, Sibo Liu
The Jo

urnal of Law, Economics, and Organization


Environmental Hazards and Local Investment: A Half-Century of Evidence from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
Daniel Berkowitz, Max Harleman, and Jeremy Weber
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists


Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility
David Danz, Lise Vesterlund, Alistair J. Wilson
American Economic Review


Sundown Towns and Racial Exclusion: The Southern White Diaspora and the "Great Retreat"
Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, Patrick A. Testa
AEA Papers and Proceedings


Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I
Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein
The Review of Economics and Statistics


Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply
Rania Gihleb, Osnat Lifshitz
Review of Economic Dynamics


Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella, and Luca Stella
The Journal of Human Resources


Optimal Taxation and R&D Policies
Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, Stefanie Stantcheva
Econometrica


Patience and Comparative Development
Douglas Hanley, Jiancheng Li, Mingqin Wu
Regional Science and Urban Economics


High-speed railways and collaborative innovation
Uwe Sunde, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Gerrit Meyerheim
The Review of Economic Studies


The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde
Management Science


Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
American Economic Review


Information structures and information aggregation in threshold equilibria in elections
Svetlana Kosterina
Economic Theory


Persuasion with unknown beliefs
Svetlana Kosterina
Theoretical Economics


Censorship as optimal persuasion
Anton Kolotilin, Timofiy Mylovanov, Andriy Zapechelnyuk
Theoretical Economics


Uncertainty and robustness of surplus extraction
Giuseppe Lopomo, Luca Rigotti, Chris Shannon
Journal of Economic Theory


Priorities and Effectiveness in Wildfire Management: Evidence from Fire Spread in the Western United States
Andrew J. Plantinga, Randall Walsh, and Matthew Wibbenmeyer
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists


Goals, Constraints, and Transparently Fair Assignments: A Field Study of Randomization Design in the UEFA Champions League
Marta Boczoń , Alistair J. Wilson
Management Science


2021

Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender
Stefania Albanesi, Jiyeon Kim
Journal of Economic Perspectives


Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students
Claire Duquennois
American Economic Review


Lifestyle and mental health 1 year into COVID-19
Paolo Nicola Barbieri, Osea Giuntella, Silvia Saccardo & Sally Sadoff
Scientific Reports


Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo
Pablo Balán, Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek, Jonathan L. Weigel
American Economic Review


Polarization, Valence, and Policy Competition
Peter Buisseret, Richard Van Weelden
American Economic Review: Insights


Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match
Federico Echenique Ruy González Alistair J. Wilson Leeat Yariv
American Economic Review: Insights


The Times They Are a-Changing: Experimenting with Dynamic Adverse Selection
Felipe A. Araujo, Stephanie W. Wang, Alistair J. Wilson
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics


Geographic Mobility and Redistribution
Daniele Coen-Pirani
International Economic Review


Delegation in Veto Bargaining
Navin Kartik, Andreas Kleiner, Richard Van Weelden


Gender differences in negotiation and policy for improvement
Maria Recalde and Lise Vesterlund
Bargaining, Current Research and Future Directions


Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions
Steffen Andersen, Julie Marx, Kasper Meisner Nielsen, Lise Vesterlund
Economic Journal


The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy
Caterina Alacevich, Nicolo’ Cavalli, Osea Giuntella, Raffaele Lavravinese, Francesco Moscone, Catia Nicodemo
Health Economics


Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee
Journal of Development Economics


World War II and Black Economic Progress
Andreas Ferrara
Journal of Labor Economics


Surrounded and Threatened: How Neighborhood Composition Reduces Ethnic Voting Through Intimidation
Ted Enamorado, Svetlana Kosterina
Political Science Research and Methods


Lifestyle and Mental Health Disruptions During COVID-19
Kelly Hyde, Osea Giuntella, Silvia Saccardo, Sally Sadoff
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


Zoning and segregation in urban economic history
AllisonShertzer, TateTwinam and Randall P.Walsh
Regional Science and Urban Economics


Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
Rania Gihleb, Osnat Lifshitz
Review of Economic Dynamics


Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply
Rania Gihleba, Osnat Lifshitz
Review of Economic Dynamics


2020

Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
Review of Economic Studies


Information Transmission Under the Shadow of the Future: An Experiment
Emanuel Vespa, Alistair Wilson
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics


Balanced Growth Approach to Tracking Recessions
Marta Boczoń, Jean-François Richard
Econometrics


Never Underestimate Your Opponent: Hindsight Bias Causes Overplacement and Overentry into Competition
David Danz
Games & Economic Behavior


Experimenting with incentives for information transmission: Quantity versus quality
Jonathan Lafky, Alistair Wilson
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization


Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Sleep. Evidence from DACA
Odea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Luca Stella
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization


How Bureaucratic Capacity Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and Affluent Citizens’ Incomes in the American States
Daniel Berkowitz, George Krause
Journal of Public Policy


Evidence of general economic principles of bargaining and trade from 2,000 classroom experiments
Stephanie W. Wang, Po-Hsuan Lin, Alexander L. Brown, Taisuke Imai, Joseph Tao-yi Wang, and Colin F. Camerer
Nature Human Behaviour


Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets
Stephanie W. Wang, Alvin E. Roth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


2019

The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, Yogita Shamdasani
Quarterly Journal of Economics


The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism and Fertility Choice
Juan Carlos Cordoba, Marla Ripoll
Review of Economic Studies


Financial Safety Nets
Louphou Coulibaly, Julien Bengui, Javier Bianchi
International Economic Review


Experimenter Demand Effects
Jonathan De Quidt, Lise Vesterlund, Alistair Wilson
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics


IPAD: Stable Interpretable Forecasting with Knockoffs Inference
Yingying Fan, Jinchi Lv, Mahrad Sharifvaghefi, Yoshimasa Uematsu
Journal of the American Statistical Association


Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings
Sascha O. Becker, Andreas Ferrara
Labour Economics


Experimenting with the Transition Rule in Dynamic Games
Emanuel Vespa, Alistair Wilson
Quantitative Economics


Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities
Allison Shertzer, Randall P. Walsh
Review of Economics and Statistics


2018

Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation
Navin Kartik, Richard van Weelden, Stephane Wolton
American Journal of Political Science


Nonparametric Estimation of First-price Auctions with Risk-averse Bidders
Federico Zincenko
Journal of Econometrics


The Effects of Immigration on Waiting Times in the National Health Service
Osea Giuntella, Caitia Nicodemo, Carlos Vargas-Silva
Journal of Health Economics


Elections and Divisiveness: Theory and Evidence
Elliott Ash, Massimo Morelli, Richard van Weelden
Journal of Politics


Error-prone Inference from Response Time: The Case of Intuitive Generosity in Public-good Games
Maria P. Recalde, Arno Riedl, Lise Vesterlund
Journal of Public Economics


The Effect of Charter Competition on Unionized District Revenues and Resource Allocation
Jason Cook
Journal of Public Economics


Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities
Allison Shertzer, Tate Twinam, Randall P. Walsh
Journal of Urban Economics


The Gender Unemployment Gap
Stefania Albanesi and Aysegul Sahin
Review of Economic Dynamics


Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War
Allison Shertzer, Shari Eli, Laura Salisbury
The Journal of Economic History


2017

Why Do People Give: Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Lise Vesterlund, and Huan Xie
American Economic Review


Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability
Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie Weingart
American Economic Review


Risk Aversion and the Value of Life
Juan Carlos Cordoba and Marla Ripoll
Review of Economic Studies


Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China’s State Owned Enterprises
Daniel Berkowitz, Hong Ma, Shuichiro Nishioka
Review of Economics and Statistics


Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks: The Role of Backlash
Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde and Lise Vesterlund
American Economic Review (P&P)


A Proposal to Organize and Promote Replications
Lucas Coffman, Muriel Niederle and Alistair Wilson
American Economic Review (P&P)


Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics
James Berry, Lucas Coffman, Rania Gihleb, Douglas Hanley and Alistair Wilson
American Economic Review (P&P)


Finite Gaussian Mixture Approximations to Analytically Intractable Density Kernels
Natalia Khorunzhina, Jean-François Richard
Computational Economics


Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From an Unsleeping Giant
Osea Giuntella, Wei Han and Fabrizio Mazzonna
Demography


Beyond GDP: Is There a Law of One Shadow Price?
Fabrice Murtin, Romina Boarini, Juan Carlos Cordoba and Marla Ripoll
European Economic Review


At-will Relationships: How an Option to Walk Away Affects Cooperation and Efficiency
Alistair J. Wilson and Hong Wu
Games & Economic Behavior


Regional Growth and Poverty in Ukraine
Fyodor Kushnirsky and Svitlana Maksymenko
Global Economy in Transition: the European Union and Beyond


The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation (pages 511-518)
Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella
Health Economics


Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools. Evidence from Vatican II
Rania Gihleb and Osea Giuntella
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization


Why Does the Health of Mexican Immigrants Deteriorate? New evidence from linked birth records
Osea Giuntella
Journal of Health Economics


Efficiency gains in rank-ordered multinomial logit models
Arie Beresteanu and Federico Zincenko
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics


Collusion and heterogeneity of firms
Ichiro Obara and Federico Zincenko
RAND Journal of Economics


Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Informedness and the Impact of Information Programs
David P. Byrne, Andrea La Nauze and Leslie A. Martin
Review of Economics and Statistics


Time discounting and economic decision-making in the older population
David Huffman, Raimond Maurer and Olivia S. Mitchell
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing


The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani
The Quarterly Journal of Economics


2016

Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday
Leandro S. Carvalho, Stephan Meier and Stephanie Wang
American Economic Review


Transition to Clean Technology
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William Kerr
Journal of Political Economy


Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti
Journal of Political Economy


Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning
Allison Shertzer, Tate Twinam and Randall Walsh
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics


Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.
Rui Castro and Daniele Coen-Pirani
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics


Assimilation and Health: Evidence From Linked Birth Records of Second-and Third-Generation Hispanics
Osea Giuntella
Demography


Social surplus determines cooperation rates in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma
Gary Charness, Luca Rigotti and Aldo Rustichini
Games & Economic Behavior


Learning the Krepsian State: Exploration through consumption
Evan Piermont, Norio Takeoka and Roee Teper
Games & Economic Behavior


Do property rights matter? Evidence from a property law enactment
Daniel Berkowitz, Chen Lin, and Yue Ma
Journal of Financial Economics


A Theory of Rollover Risk, Sudden Stops, and Foreign Reserves
Sewon Hur and Illenin Kondo
Journal of International Economics


Fertility, Social Mobility and Long Run Inequality
Juan Carlos Cordoba, Xiying Liu and Marla Ripoll
Journal of Monetary Economics


Task-specific experience and task-specific talent: Decomposing the productivity of high school teachers
Jason B. Cook and Richard K. Mansfield
Journal of Public Economics


Immigrant group size and political mobilization: Evidence from European migration to the United States
Allison Shertzer
Journal of Public Economics


The Slider Task: An Example of Restricted Inference on Incentive Effects
F. Araujo, E. Carbone, L. Conell-Price, M. Dunietz, A. Jaroszewicz, R. Landsman, D. Lame, L. Vesterlund, S. Wang and A. WIlson
Journal of the Economic Science Association


Communication With Multiple Senders: An Experiment
Emanuel Vespa and Alistair Wilson
Quantitative Economics


Clearinghouses for Two-Sided Matching: An Experimental Study
Federico Echenique, Alistair Wilson and Leeat Yariv
Quantitative Economics


Intergenerational Transfers and the Fertility-Income Relationship
Juan Carlos Cordoba and Marla Ripoll
The Economic Journal


Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl
Daniel Berkowitz, Hong Ma and Shuichiro Nishioka
The MIT Press Journals