1993-1999

University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Ph.D. Economics - February 2000

Economic Science Laboratory: Pre-doctoral fellowship in experimental methods with Prof. Vernon Smith; sponsored by the Economic Science Lab.

Institute for Empirical Research in Economics: Pre-doctoral fellowship in experimental methods with Prof. Ernst Fehr; sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation's Norms & Preferences working group.

1993-1996

University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
M.A. Economics - September 1996

University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
Carlson School of Management
B.S. Accounting - December 1989

Strong Reciprocity and Team Production, with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Sung-Ha Hwang, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field experimental evidence (IZA DP No. 2013), With Stephen Burks and Lorenz Goette, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Altruistic Behavior in a Representative Dictator Experiment, with Cristina Connolly and Caitlin Myers, Experimental Economics, 11(3): 282-298 (2008).

Behavioral Development Economics: Lessons from field labs in the developing world, with Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Journal of Development Studies, 44(3): 337-364 (2008).

Charity Auctions: A Field Experiment, with Jessica Holmes and Peter Matthews, the Economic Journal, 118(January): 92-113 (2008).

Fairness and Freight-Handlers: A Test of Fair-Wage Theory in a Trucking Firm, with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60(4): 477-498 (2007).

Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods, Games and Economic Behavior, 60(1): 31-51 (2007).

The Demand for Punishment, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 62(4): 522-542 (2007).

Space, Trust, and Communal Action: Results from field experiments in Southeast Asia, with Amrita Daniere and Lois Takahashi, Journal of Regional Science, 46(4): 681-705 (2006).

Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community, with Erika Seki, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, BE Press, 5(2), Article 2 (January 2006).

No Switch Backs: rethinking aspiration-based dynamics in the ultimatum game, with Peter Matthews, Theory and Decision, 58(4):351-385 (June 2005).

The Effect of Stakes In Distribution Experiments, with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen, Economics Letters, 86(3):393-398 (March 2005).

Cooperation, Trust and Social Capital in Southeast Asian Urban Slums, with Amrita Daniere and Lois Takahashi, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 55(4):533-552 (December 2004).

Endogenous Social Preferences," Review of Radical Political Economics, 37(1):63-84 (Winter, 2005).

Why Punish? Social Reciprocity and the Enforcement of Prosocial Norms, with Peter Matthews and Okomboli Ong'Ong'a, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14(4): 407-429 (October 2004).

When in Rome: Conformity and the Provision of Public Goods, Journal of Socio-Economics, 33(4):395-408 (September 2004).

Social Capital and Trust in Southeast Asian Cities, with Amrita Daniere and Lois Takahashi, Urban Studies, 41(4):853-874 (April 2004).

Is Fairness Used Instrumentally? Evidence from Sequential Bargaining, Journal of Economic Psychology, 24(4):467-489 (August 2003).

Fairness, Escalation, Deference, and Spite: Strategies used in Labor-Management Bargaining Experiments with Outside Options with McAndrew Rudisill, Labour Economics, 10(4):427-442 (August 2003).

Playing Both Roles in the Trust Game with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 51(2):195-216 (June 2003).

Beliefs, Intentions, and Evolution: The new versus the old psychological game theory with Peter Matthews, Behavior and Brain Sciences, 26(2):158-159 (April 2003).

Bargaining Outcomes as the Result of Coordinated Expectations: an experimental study of sequential bargaining, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47(2):119-139 (April 2003).

Evolutionary Models of Bargaining: Comparing agent-based computational and analytical approaches to understanding convention evolution, Computational Economics, 19(1):25-49 (April 2002).

Information, Fairness, and Reciprocity in the Best Shot Game, Economics Letters, 75(2):243-248 (April 2002).

Negotiation in the Commons: Incorporating Field and Experimental Evidence into a Theory of Local Collective Action, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 156(4):661-683 (December 2000).

Blurring the Line Between Rationality and Evolution, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7(1-2):291-295 (January/February 2000).

Field Experiments in Economics (with John List, and Glenn Harrison, Eds.), Volume 10, Research in Experimental Economics, JAI Press, Greenwich and London (Spring 2005).

Field Experiments in Economics: An Introduction, with Glenn Harrison and John List, in Field Experiments in Economics, (JAI/Elsevier series - Research in Experimental Economics), eds. Jeffrey Carpenter, John List, and Glenn Harrison, pp. 1-16 (Spring 2005).

Three Themes on Field Experiments and Economic Development, with Juan Camilo Cardenas, in Field Experiments in Economics, (JAI/Elsevier series - Research in Experimental Economics), eds. Jeffrey Carpenter, John List, and Glenn Harrison, pp. 71-124 (Spring 2005).

Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games, with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen, in Field Experiments in Economics, (JAI/Elsevier series - Research in Experimental Economics), eds. Jeffrey Carpenter, John List, and Glenn Harrison, pp. 261-290 (Spring 2005).

Measuring Social Capital: Adding Field Experimental Methods to the Analytical Toolbox, in Social Capital, Economic Development and the Environment, (Edward Elgar), eds. Sunder Ramaswamy, Jonathan Isham and Thomas Kelly, (Fall 2002).

Blurring the Line Between Rationality and Evolution, in Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (Imprint Academic), ed. Leonard D. Katz, (March 2000).

Coevolving Social Institutions: An Example of Status and Markets, in Economy and Society, (Montreal: Black Rose) eds. Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine, (Spring 2002).

National Science Foundation - 3-year grant to fund the research project: Raising Money for Charity: An experimental approach, (SES 0617778), May 2006, ($315,319).

Combined MacArthur Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Corporate Funding - to fund: Truckers and Turnover: Using field experiments to understand driver decision-making (with Stephen Burks, Lorenz Goethe, Aldo Rustichini and others), June 2005 ($300,000).

Mac Arthur Foundation - Reciprocal Fairness and Preferences working group grant to fund: Veloproductivity: Field experiments (with Stephen Burks and Lorenz Goethe), November 2002 ($25,000).

University of Minnesota - Grant in Aid award to fund: Veloproductivity: production experiments with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the U.S. (with Stephen Burks and Lorenz Goethe), November 2002 ($24,994).

National Science Foundation - 5-year CAREER Grant to fund the research project: The Evolution of Social Capital in Field Settings: Experimental Measurements and Agent-Based Models of Convention Evolution, (SES-CAREER 0092953), January 2001, ($281,428).

Mac Arthur Foundation - Reciprocal Fairness and Preferences working group grant to fund: Field Ultimatum and Dictator Games with High Stakes (with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen), June 2000 and Funding Extension September 2001 ($19,800 total).

Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis - grant to fund: North-South Visions of Local And Global Commons: Cross-country Experiments on Preserving Biodiversity (with Juan-Camilo Cardenas), June 2000, ($2,600).

Mac Arthur Foundation - Reciprocal Fairness and Preferences working group grant to fund: Truckers and Trust: Field Experiments on Reciprocity at LTL Trucking Companies (with Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen), September 1999, ($35,000).

Mac Arthur Foundation - Reciprocal Fairness and Preferences working group grant to fund: Alchian & Demsetz Revisited: Testing the Effects of Mutual Monitoring, Reciprocity, Team Size and Residual Claimancy on Team Production, March 1999, ($12,025).

National Science Foundation - Dissertation Improvement Grant to fund the research project: Fair Bargaining: An Experimental Study of Reciprocity and Information (SBR Grant # 9730332), March 1998, ($5,205).

Russell Sage Foundation - Grants in Behavioral Economics to fund the research project: Is Fairness Used Instrumentally? Evidence from Ultimatum Bargaining (RSF Grant # 98-98-04), February 1998, ($1,750).

The Economic Science Laboratory - (University of Arizona) invitation and stipend to attend the 1997 Graduate Workshop in Experimental Economics, 31 July - 6 August, 1997.

Middlebury College (1999-2005) Assistant Professor - Microeconomic Theory, Introductory Microeconomics, Game Theory, Bargaining Theory & Behavior.

Middlebury College (2006-present) Associate Professor - Microeconomic Theory, Introductory Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics.