On Charitable Giving
“Time Inconsistent
Charitable Giving." with Marta Serra-Garcia. Journal of Public Economics, 198, June
2021.
“Economics
of Philanthropic Tax Incentives,” with Sarah Smith, to appear in H. Peter, and
G. Lideikyte-Huber, Eds. Routledge Handbook of
Taxation and Philanthropy, London, October 2021.
“The Pledging Puzzle:
How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving?” with Marta
Serra-Garcia, in press, Management Science, 2021.
"Charitable Contributions of Time and
Money," with W.G. Gale and J.K. Scholz. Abstract.
On
Altruism, Fairness, and Social Image
“When Fair Isn't Fair: Understanding
Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences." with Deniz Aydin,
Blake Barton, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Jeffrey Naecker.
Journal of Political Economy, 128(5), 1673-1711, (2020).
“Avoiding the Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism,
Empathy, and Charitable Giving.'' with Justin M. Rao, and Hannah Trachtman, Journal of Political Economy, June 2017,
v 125, no. 3.
“Fooling Myself or Fooling Observers?
Avoiding Social Pressures by Manipulating Perceptions of Deservingness of
Others" with Alison Sanchez, Economic Inquiry, January 2020, 58
(1), 12-133.
"Satisfaction Guaranteed:
When Moral Hazard Meets Moral Preferences" , American Economic
Journal Microeconomics, April 2017.
*Appendix
with subjects' instructions
On Time and Risk Preferences
“Arbitrage Or Narrow Bracketing? On Using
Money to Measure Intertemporal Preferences,” with Christina Gravert, Michael A. Kuhn,
Silvia
Saccardo, Yang Yang,
October 22, 2018.
“Risk Preferences of
Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills,
and Executive Functions." with Amalia Di Girolamo, John List, Claire
Mackevicius, and Anya Samek. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,
179, 729-742,(2020).
"Using Preference
Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives
in Pakistan.” with Michael Callen, Karrar
Hussain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, and Charles Sprenger. February 2017.
"Unexpected Utility:
Experimental Tests of Five Key Questions about Preferences over Risk."
with William T. Harbaugh, December 2009. Subjects'
Instructions. See a demo of a live decision screen! (requires Java).
Norms & norm change.
“Higher socioeconomic status does
not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment." with Nikos Nikiforakis and Jan Stoop. Nature
Communications, 12, 1, 2021: 1-8.
“Predicting Social
Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments." with Nikos
Nikiforakis and Simon Siegenthaler, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 118, no. 16, 2021.